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Ashvina Segaran
Clinical DPhil student
I am a CRUK funded Clinical Research Training Fellow and am undertaking a DPhil in translational cancer biology. I completed my medical degree in 2010 from the University of Cambridge and went on to do my basic surgical training there before moving to Oxford in 2015 where I hold a National Training Number in General Surgery.
I am intending to specialise in Oncoplastic Breast surgery, and I am interested in the field of breast cancer. The focus of my research is investigating the link between obesity and breast cancer, particularly the tumour microenvironment and nucleotide metabolism using mass spectrometry.
Apart from research I am also actively involved in delivering surgical teaching to the medical students from the University of Oxford, and I am also a clinical tutor for University College.
Recent publications
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Evaluation of prognostic risk models for postoperative pulmonary complications in adult patients undergoing major abdominal surgery: a systematic review and international external validation cohort study.
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STARSurg Collaborative and TASMAN Collaborative None., (2022), The Lancet. Digital health, 4, e520 - e531
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Targeting OXPHOS and the electronic transport chain in cancer; Molecular and therapeutic implications.
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Greene J. et al, (2022), Seminars in cancer biology
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Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
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McLean KA. et al, (2021), British Journal of Surgery, 108, 1448 - 1464
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Transcriptomic analysis of human primary breast cancer identifies fatty acid oxidation as a target for metformin.
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Lord SR. et al, (2019), British journal of cancer
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Predicting the difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy: development and validation of a pre-operative risk score using an objective operative difficulty grading system.
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Nassar AHM. et al, (2019), Surgical endoscopy