Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Cancer Causes, Screening and Diagnosis'

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Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan
Interests: liver cancer; hepatitis; liver cirrhosis; cholestasis; bile acids

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Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center, Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55124 Mainz, Germany
Interests: glioma; brain tumor; neurosurgery; intraoperative imaging; intraoperative robotics and navigation; personal medicine (for brain tumors)
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Department of Creative IT Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
Interests: ultrasonic transducers; ultrasound imaging; high-intensity focused ultrasound; cell mechanics; high-frequency ultrasound imaging
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Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Uchimaru 19-1, Morioka, Iwate 020-8505, Japan
Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma; liver; medical image analysis; elastography; ultrasonics; interventional ultrasonography; microbubbles
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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
Interests: cancer genomics; next generatio sequencing technologies and applications

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Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA
Interests: molecular epidemiology; cancer epigenetics; environmental and occupational risk factors; respiratory tract cancers
Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
Interests: breast; melanoma; radiomics; hybrid imaging; dual-energy CT
Project for Development of Liquid Biopsy Diagnosis, Cancer Precision Medicine Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan
Interests: biomarkers; liquid biopsy; circulating tumor DNA; next generation sequencing (NGS); genome-wide association study (GWAS); pharmacogenomics; cancer early detection; cancer monitoring
IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16131 Genova, Italy
Interests: cancer; pathway; tumor; inflammation biomarkers; PET/CT; Prognostic power

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Department of H&N radiology, Head of the Department of Radiology, University of Brescia, 25121 Brescia, Italy
Interests: head and neck imaging; radiology; diagnostic image

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Gynecologic Oncology Department, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy
Interests: Gynecologic Oncology; cervical cancer; ovarian cancer; endometrial cancer; laparoscopy; sentinel node; hysteroscopy; fertility preservation

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1. Klinik Ottakring- Institute of Nuclear Medicine with PET-Center Montleartstr, 1160 Vienna, Austria
2. UEMS-Section Nuclear Medicine, 1171 Vienna, Austria
Interests: nuclear medicine; PSMA-PET; FDG-PET; PRRT of NET; thyroid cancer
Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: gastric cancer; hereditary syndromes; familial syndromres; pancreatic cancer; germline mutations
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Dipartimento Scienze della Salute della Donna, del Bambino e di Sanità Pubblica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: gynecology; gynecology oncology; ovarian cancer; cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; ovarian neoplasm; ultrasound; imaging; ultrasonography
1. Hereditary Cancer Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
2. Oncobell Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: cancer genetics; hereditary cancer; colorectal cancer predisposition; variant classification; molecular genetics; sequencing; genomics; epigenomics; mutational signatures; glioma
Department of Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, 7-5-2 Kusunokicho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan
Interests: medical image analysis; diagnostic radiology; computed tomography; deep learning; machine learning
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Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20139 Milan, Italy
Interests: spectrometry-based proteomics; proteomics; proteomics and epigenetic profiling of clinical samples; novel epigenetic biomarkers and targetable pathways in cancer
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Tumor Microenvironment Group, Cellular Biology and Histology, University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
Interests: tumor microenvironment; liver; fibrosis; collagen receptors; inflammation; myofibroblast

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1. Computational Clinical Imaging Group, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2. Computational Medicine Lab, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece
3. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: radiomics in oncology; AI for medical applications; quantitative imaging biomarkers (diffusion, perfusion, magnetization transfer); advanced neuroimaging applications in brain tumors (tractography, fMRI)
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Department of Neurosurgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: high grade glioma; Glioblastoma; low grade glioma; meningioma; brain tumor; 5-ALA; contrast enhanced ultrasound; intraoperative imaging; neurosurgery
1. Melanoma Unit, Dermatology Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
2. Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: cancer genetics; familial cancer; familial melanoma; hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome
Senate Member, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2, Canada
Interests: epigenetics; gene regulation; drug-repurposing; brain tumor; neural stem cells; neurodevelopment
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Department of Oncology, Li Ka Shing Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK
Interests: cancer metabolism; molecular imaging; early detection; biomarkers; cell signalling; breast cancer; HGSOC; lung cancer; metastasis; patient derived models; precision medicine

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Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: breast cancer; pancreatic cancer; tumor angiogenesis; tumor microenvironment; obesity-related cancers; cancer biomarkers; cancer diagnostics
General Surgery 3, Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
Interests: colorectal cancer; IBD; laparoscopic and robotic surgery

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Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 40, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
Interests: oncogenomics; biomarkers; oncology; genomics; prostate cancer; lung cancer; companion diagnostics

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Department of Urology, Chiba University Hospital 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
Interests: prostate cancer; testosterone; urolithiasis; cystinuria; liquid biopsy; androgen receptor

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Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Interests: magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; quantitative MRI/MRS; MR technology; (ultra-)high magnetic field strength; biomarkers; prostate cancer; contrast agents; lymph node involvement

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National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
Interests: transcriptome-wide comparative analysis; cancer transcriptome variability; regulatory roles of RNA folding, RNA-RNA interactions; non-coding RNAs

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1. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-1712, USA
2. Gastroenterology Division and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Department of Internal Medicine, IRCCS Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy
Interests: gastrointestinal pathology; inflammatory bowel diseases; gastrointestinal cancer; chronic inflammation; autoimmunity; autoinflammation and innate immunity; microbiome
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