Detail

Keywords

Breast Cancer; Gene Expression Profiling; General Surgery

Research group(s)

• AG Brustchirurgie
  Head: Florian Fitzal
  Members:
  Ruth Exner
  Stephanie Kacerovsky-Strobl
• Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group (ABCSG)
  Research Area: Breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer
  Members:
  Georg Pfeiler
  Florian Fitzal
  Kerstin Wimmer
  Ruth Exner
  Stephanie Kacerovsky-Strobl
  Gerd Silberhumer
  Martin Schindl

Grants

• Klinische Relevanz der Genexpressionsanalyse beim Mammakarzinom (2017)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Habilitationspreis
  Principal Investigator
• The Multigene Signature MammaPrint Impacts on Multidisciplinary Team Decisions in ER- positive, HER2-negative early breast cancer (2014)
  Source of Funding: Austrian Society of Senology, Astra Zeneca Forschungsförderungspreis
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Exner, R. et al., 2012. Objectively measured breast symmetry has no influence on quality of life in breast cancer patients. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), 38(2), pp.130–136. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2011.10.012.
2. Bergen, E.S. et al., 2019. Continued Endocrine Therapy Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Breast Cancer Brain Metastases. Clinical Cancer Research, 25(9), pp.2737,
3. Exner, R., 2017. Local therapies for breast cancer. memo - Magazine of European Medical Oncology, 10(3), pp.181,
4. Exner, R. et al., 2014. The multigene signature MammaPrint impacts on multidisciplinary team decisions in ER+, HER2,
5. Exner, R. et al., 2015. Potential of DNA methylation in rectal cancer as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. British Journal of Cancer, 113(7), pp.1035,