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Neil Merrett

Clinic Dean Liv/Prof Surgery C'town and Bankstown, School Of Medicine Western Sydney …
Verified email at westernsydney.edu.au
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Superior mesenteric artery syndrome: diagnosis and treatment strategies

ND Merrett, RB Wilson, P Cosman… - Journal of Gastrointestinal …, 2009 - Springer
Introduction Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is an unusual cause of vomiting
and weight loss resulting from the compression of the third part of the duodenum by the …

Clinicopathologic factors associated with HER2‐positive gastric cancer and its impact on survival outcomes—A systematic review

TC Chua, ND Merrett - International journal of cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
With the availability of a therapeutic target and an effective agent in trastuzumab, a
systematic examination of the literature to investigate the role of human epidermal growth …

Meta-analysis of radical resection rates and margin assessment in pancreatic cancer

MD Chandrasegaram, D Goldstein… - Journal of British …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background R0 resection rates (complete tumour removal with negative resection margins)
in pancreatic cancer are 70–80 per cent when a 0-mm margin is used, declining to 15–24 …

Whole genomes redefine the mutational landscape of pancreatic cancer

N Waddell, M Pajic, AM Patch, DK Chang, KS Kassahn… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal of malignancies and a major health
burden. We performed whole-genome sequencing and copy number variation (CNV) …

Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

P Bailey, DK Chang, K Nones, AL Johns, AM Patch… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Integrated genomic analysis of 456 pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas identified 32
recurrently mutated genes that aggregate into 10 pathways: KRAS, TGF-β, WNT, NOTCH …

Pancreatic cancer genomes reveal aberrations in axon guidance pathway genes

AV Biankin, N Waddell, KS Kassahn, MC Gingras… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignancy with few effective therapies. We performed
exome sequencing and copy number analysis to define genomic aberrations in a …

Whole-genome landscape of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

A Scarpa, DK Chang, K Nones, V Corbo, AM Patch… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The diagnosis of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PanNETs) is increasing owing to
more sensitive detection methods, and this increase is creating challenges for clinical …

Margin clearance and outcome in resected pancreatic cancer

DK Chang, AL Johns, ND Merrett, AJ Gill… - Journal of Clinical …, 2009 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Current adjuvant therapies for pancreatic cancer (PC) are inconsistently used and
only modestly effective. Because a high proportion of patients who undergo resection for PC …

[HTML][HTML] The prognostic and predictive value of serum CA19. 9 in pancreatic cancer

JL Humphris, DK Chang, AL Johns, CJ Scarlett… - Annals of oncology, 2012 - Elsevier
Background Current staging methods for pancreatic cancer (PC) are inadequate, and
biomarkers to aid clinical decision making are lacking. Despite the availability of the serum …

Hypermutation in pancreatic cancer

JL Humphris, AM Patch, K Nones, PJ Bailey, AL Johns… - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Pancreatic cancer is molecularly diverse, with few effective therapies. Increased mutation
burden and defective DNA repair are associated with response to immune checkpoint …