Search Results - "Menzies, A."
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Long‐term corticosteroid use, adrenal insufficiency and the need for steroid‐sparing treatment in adult severe asthma
Published in Journal of internal medicine (01-08-2021)“…Secondary adrenal insufficiency (AI) occurs as the result of any process that disrupts normal hypothalamic and/or anterior pituitary function and causes a…”
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Novel adjuvant options for cutaneous melanoma
Published in Annals of oncology (01-07-2021)“…Patients with resected stage III and IV melanoma have a high risk of recurrence. As the outcomes for patients with metastatic disease have improved…”
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Nowcasting by Bayesian Smoothing: A flexible, generalizable model for real-time epidemic tracking
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-04-2020)“…Achieving accurate, real-time estimates of disease activity is challenged by delays in case reporting. "Nowcast" approaches attempt to estimate the complete…”
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Immunotherapy use outside clinical trial populations: never say never?
Published in Annals of oncology (01-07-2021)“…Based on favourable outcomes in clinical trials, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), most notably programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic…”
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Safety of resuming anti-PD-1 in patients with immune-related adverse events (irAEs) during combined anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD1 in metastatic melanoma
Published in Annals of oncology (01-01-2018)“…Combined cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed death 1 (PD-1) blockade induces high rates of immune-related adverse events (irAEs). The…”
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Autoimmune diseases and immune-checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy: review of the literature and personalized risk-based prevention strategy
Published in Annals of oncology (01-06-2020)“…Patients with cancer and with preexisting active autoimmune diseases (ADs) have been excluded from immunotherapy clinical trials because of concerns for high…”
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An Efficient Estimator for the Expected Value of Sample Information
Published in Medical decision making (01-04-2016)“…Background. Conventional estimators for the expected value of sample information (EVSI) are computationally expensive or limited to specific analytic…”
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PET imaging for cancer immunotherapy: the Immuno-PET
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Circulating tumour DNA predicts response to anti-PD1 antibodies in metastatic melanoma
Published in Annals of oncology (01-05-2017)“…Programmed death 1 (PD1) inhibitors are now a foundation of medical management of metastatic melanoma. This study sought to determine whether circulating…”
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Anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with advanced melanoma and preexisting autoimmune disorders or major toxicity with ipilimumab
Published in Annals of oncology (01-02-2017)“…Anti-PD-1 antibodies (anti-PD-1) have clinical activity in a number of malignancies. All clinical trials have excluded patients with significant preexisting…”
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Association between pretreatment emotional distress and neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade response in melanoma
Published in Nature medicine (01-12-2023)“…Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) outperforms adjuvant ICB for treatment of stage IIIB–D melanoma, but potential biomarkers of response, such as…”
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Population health impact and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF: a dynamic simulation and economic evaluation
Published in PLoS medicine (01-11-2012)“…The Xpert MTB/RIF test enables rapid detection of tuberculosis (TB) and rifampicin resistance. The World Health Organization recommends Xpert for initial…”
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FDG-PET response and outcome from anti-PD-1 therapy in metastatic melanoma
Published in Annals of oncology (01-10-2018)“…Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy has resulted in impressive and durable clinical activity for many cancers including melanoma; however, there remain few…”
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The current and future role of biomarkers in type 2 cytokine‐mediated asthma management
Published in Clinical and experimental allergy (01-02-2017)“…Summary Assessment and management of asthma is complicated by the heterogeneous pathophysiological mechanisms that underlie its clinical presentation, which…”
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Management of early melanoma recurrence despite adjuvant anti-PD-1 antibody therapy
Published in Annals of oncology (01-08-2020)“…Anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibodies (PD1) prolong recurrence-free survival in high-risk resected melanoma; however, approximately 25%–30% of…”
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Discontinuation of anti-PD-1 antibody therapy in the absence of disease progression or treatment limiting toxicity: clinical outcomes in advanced melanoma
Published in Annals of oncology (01-07-2019)“…Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) blocking monoclonal antibodies improve the overall survival of patients with advanced melanoma but the optimal duration…”
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The evolution of calcite-bearing kimberlites by melt-rock reaction: evidence from polymineralic inclusions within clinopyroxene and garnet megacrysts from Lac de Gras kimberlites, Canada
Published in Contributions to mineralogy and petrology (01-07-2016)“…Megacrystic (>1 cm) clinopyroxene (Cr-diopside) and garnet (Cr-pyrope) xenocrysts within kimberlites from Lac de Gras (Northwest Territories, Canada) contain…”
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A novel post-developmental role of the Hox genes underlies normal adult behavior
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-12-2022)“…The molecular mechanisms underlying the stability of mature neurons and neural circuits are poorly understood. Here we explore this problem and discover that…”
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The potential impact of novel tuberculosis vaccine introduction on economic growth in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study
Published in PLoS medicine (11-07-2023)“…Most individuals developing tuberculosis (TB) are working age adults living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The resulting disability and death…”
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