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Lorna Weir
Researcher at University of British Columbia
Publications - 58
Citations - 4401
Lorna Weir is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 58 publications receiving 3991 citations. Previous affiliations of Lorna Weir include BC Cancer Agency & Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
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Locoregional Radiation Therapy in Patients With High-Risk Breast Cancer Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy: 20-Year Results of the British Columbia Randomized Trial
Joseph Ragaz,Ivo A. Olivotto,John J. Spinelli,Norman Phillips,Stewart M. Jackson,Kenneth S. Wilson,Margaret A. Knowling,Christopher M.L. Coppin,Lorna Weir,Karen A. Gelmon,Nhu D. Le,Ralph E. Durand,Andrew J. Coldman,Mohamed Manji +13 more
TL;DR: For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with modified radical mastectomy, treatment with radiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy leads to better survival outcomes than chemotherapy alone, and it is well tolerated, with acceptable long-term toxicity.
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Tamoxifen with or without breast irradiation in women 50 years of age or older with early breast cancer.
Anthony Fyles,David R. McCready,Lee Manchul,Maureen E. Trudeau,Patricia Merante,Melania Pintilie,Lorna Weir,Ivo A. Olivotto +7 more
TL;DR: Radiotherapy plus tamoxifen significantly reduces the risk of breast and axillary recurrence after lumpectomy in women with small, node-negative, hormone-receptor-positive breast cancers.
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Chronic Arm Morbidity After Curative Breast Cancer Treatment: Prevalence and Impact on Quality of Life
TL;DR: Treatment for breast cancer is associated with considerable arm morbidity, which has a negative impact on QOL, andArm morbidity should be carefully monitored in future studies involving local treatment modalities for Breast cancer.
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External beam accelerated partial breast irradiation versus whole breast irradiation after breast conserving surgery in women with ductal carcinoma in situ and node-negative breast cancer (RAPID): a randomised controlled trial.
Timothy J. Whelan,Jim A. Julian,Tanya Berrang,Do Hoon Kim,Isabelle Germain,Alan Nichol,Mohamed Akra,Sophie Lavertu,Francois Germain,Francois Germain,Anthony Fyles,Theresa Trotter,Francisco Perera,Susan Balkwill,Susan Chafe,Thomas McGowan,Thierry Muanza,Wayne Beckham,Boon Chua,Chu Shu Gu,Mark Levine,Ivo A. Olivotto,Carson Leong,Beverly Helen Lester,Winkle Kwan,Medhat Zikry Abd-El-Malek,Arthur Cheung,Maha Almahmudi,Joel Broomfield,Michael Sia,Melanie Reed,Jane Wilson,Islam Gharib Mohamed,Caroline Holloway,Ken I. Mills,David W. Petrik,Juanita Mary Crook,Frances Lai-Wah Wong,Hannah Mills Carolan,D. Voduc,Paris-Ann Ingledew,Sonia Nguyen,Mira Keyes,Lorna Weir,Scott Tyldesley,Peter Lim,Christina Aquino Parsons,Robert Olson,Paul Blood,Elaine Sze-Sze Wai,Pauline T. Truong,Hosam (Sam) Kader,Abraham Alexander,Aminudin Rahman Mohd Mydin,Sally Smith,Maria Vlachaki,Valerie Panet-Raymond,Krystine Lupe,Jennifer Goulart,David Nguyen,Karen Chu,Joycelin Canavan,Julianna Caon,Susan Tyler,Negin Shahid,Jacqueline Lam,John Amanie,Diane Marie Severin,Bassam Abdul Karim,Keith Tankel,Nadeem Pervez,Kurian Joseph,Zsolt Gabos,Barbara Krause,Fleur Huang,Tien Phan,Peter S. Craighead,Elizabeth Yan,J.A. (Jack) MacKinnon,Robert Nordal,Siraj Husain,Jon-Paul Voroney,Richie Sinha,James Pinilla,Andrew Cooke,Kalyani Vijayraghavan,Steven Latosinsky,Elizabeth Saettler,Yiu-Keung (James) Lau,Marianne Krahn,Ethel MacIntosh,Maged Nashed,Bashir Bashir,Vamsee Torri,Benjamin Goldenberg,Christina Kim,Vasanth Basrur,Ramana Rachakonda,Darin Gopaul,Sundeep Shahi,Sofya Kobeleva,Ian S. Dayes,D.I. Hodson,Barbara Strang,Sachi Voruganti,William McMillan,Harold I. Reiter,James G. Wright,Jonathan Sussman,Som D. Mukherjee,Susan Gudelis,David D'Souza,Michael Lock,Nancy Read,Olga Vujovic,Brian Yaremko,Edward Yu,Theodore A. Vandenberg,Jawaid Younus,Kylea Potvin,Tracy Sexton,Brian Dingle,B. Findlay,Janice Giesbrecht,Philip Hughes,Martin Samosh,Michael Levesque,Radhika Yelamanchili,Linda Lee,Rachel VanderMeer,David Wasserman,J. Bowen,David Want,Randall Bissett,Adam Andronowski,Sarwat Shehata,Hugh L. Prichard,Wayne Koll,Philip C. Chan,Jimmy Mui,Youssef M. Youssef,Holly Campbell,Medhat El-Mallah,Fawaad Iqbal,Behzad (Sayed) Banihashemi,Peter H. Dixon,Laval Grimard,Catherine Lochrin,Joanne Meng,Peter Cross,Samy El-Sayed,Bernd Esche,Paul Genest,Jean-Michel Caudrelier,Scott Morgan,Jean-Marc Bourque,Vimoj Nair,Senti Senthelal,Glenn Jones,Jonathan Tsao,John Radwan,Charles Hayter,Marisa Finlay,JD (Jidong) Lian,Yongjin Wang,Jasper Yuen,Luleul Khan,B.C. John Cho,Christine Anne Koch,Fei-Fei Liu,Lee Manchul,Michael J. McLean,Pamela Catton,Robert E. Dinniwell,Woodrow A. Wells,Wilfred Levin,Lorraine Walsh,Caroline Chung,Kathy Han,Tatiana Conrad,Joelle Helou,Aisling Barry,Ken Schneider,Khalid Hirmiz,H. Abu-Zahra,Isabelle Roy,Jose Ayllon,Pierre Del Vecchio,Marie-Andrée Fortin,Jean-Pierre Guay,Francis Methot,Pierre Rousseau,Marjory Jolicoeur,Toni Vu,Levon Igidbashian,Anne Dagnault,Luis-Victor Diaz de Bedoya,Chang Shu Wang,André Fortin,Eric Vigneault,Isabelle Vallieres,Paul-Émile Raymond,Andre-Guy Martin,Lucie Blondeau,Marie Larochelle,Nathalie Lessard,Melanie Gaudreault,Valérie Théberge,Abdenour Nabid,Olivier Ballivy,Rachel Bujold,Annie Ebacher,Sawyna Provencher,Pierre Chabot,Celine Lemaire,Peter Vavassis,Cathy Menkarios,Michael Yassa,Khalil Sultanem,Lawrence Panasci,David Melnychuk,Francois Patenaude,Wilson H. Miller,Catalin Mihalioiu,Paul Ahlgren,Richard Dalfen,Adrian Langleben,Donna Stern,Jonathan Wan,Christine Lambert,Marc David,Neil Kopek,Annie Carbonneau,Tarek Hijal,Nancy Grant,Farah Naz,M.D. Mohiuddin,S. Eshwar Kumar,Robert Rutledge,Dorianne Elizabeth Rheaume,Maureen C. Nolan,Wladyslawa Cwajna,Suki Gill,Tracie Gleisner,Solveig Grenfell,Michelle Bishop,Niluja Thiruthaneeswaran,Chen Liu,Claire Philips,Roslyn Drummond,Bronwyn King,Steven David,Mary K. Dwyer,Gillian Campbell,Susan Brooks,Ramesh Arunachalam,Giuseppe Sasso,Chelleraj Benjamin,Chakiath Jose,Christine Elder,Hedley Krawitz,Dominique Lee,Roger Huang,Sudha Purchuri,Maria Pearse,Thayavalappil Hemanth,Ruth Angell,Vikash Patel,Glenys Round,Anupam Chaudhuri,Christopher Ford +270 more
TL;DR: External beam APBI was non-inferior to whole breast irradiation in preventing ipsilateral breast tumour recurrence (IBTR), analysed by intention to treat and less acute toxicity was observed.
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Oral clodronate for adjuvant treatment of operable breast cancer (National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project protocol B-34): a multicentre, placebo-controlled, randomised trial
Alexander H.G. Paterson,Stewart J. Anderson,Barry C. Lembersky,Louis Fehrenbacher,Carla I. Falkson,Carla I. Falkson,Karen M. King,Lorna Weir,Adam Brufsky,Shaker R. Dakhil,Thomas Lad,Luis Baez-Diaz,Julie R. Gralow,André Robidoux,Edith A. Perez,Edith A. Perez,Ping Zheng,Charles E. Geyer,Sandra M. Swain,Joseph P. Costantino,Eleftherios P. Mamounas,Norman Wolmark +21 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of adjuvant bisphosphonate trials is suggested before recommendations for use in non-osteoporotic postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer are made.