David Ball

Single-Fraction vs Multifraction Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy for Pulmonary Oligometastases (SAFRON II) The Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group 13.01 Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial

Shankar Siva, Mathias Bressel, Tao Mai, Hien Le, Shalini Vinod, Harini de Silva, Sean Macdonald, Marketa Skala, Nicholas Hardcastle, Angela Rezo, David Pryor, Suki Gill, Braden Higgs, Kassandra Wagenfuehr, Rebecca Montgomery, Raef Awad, Brent Chesson, Thomas Eade, Wenchang Wong, Giuseppe Sasso, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JAMA ONCOLOGY

Importance: Evidence is lacking from randomized clinical trials to guide the optimal approach for stereotactic ablative body radio..

Evolving Practice Pattern of Palliative Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases from Lung Cancer in Australia.

WL Ong, DL Ball, RL Milne, F Foroudi, JL Millar

Journal article  |  2021  |  Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol)

AIMS: Radiation therapy is an effective treatment for bone metastases. Single-fraction conformal radiation therapy (SF-CRT) is equ..

Functional and patient-reported changes in swallowing and voice after combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy for limited-stage small-cell lung cancer

Jacqui Frowen, Karla Gough, Rhys Hughes, Allison Drosdowsky, Mary Duffy, Nicole Kiss, Jo Phipps-Nelson, Shankar Siva, Benjamin Solomon, David Ball

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION ONCOLOGY

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to describe the nature and impact of dysphagia and dysphonia in patients with limited-..

Lung cancer treatment patterns and factors relating to systemic therapy use in Australia

Preston Ngo, David E Goldsbury, Deme Karikios, Sarsha Yap, Mei Ling Yap, Sam Egger, Dianne L O'Connell, David Ball, Kwun M Fong, Nick Pavlakis, Nicole M Rankin, Shalini Vinod, Karen Canfell, Marianne F Weber

Journal article  |  2021  |  ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

AIM: Systemic therapies for lung cancer are rapidly evolving. This study aimed to describe lung cancer treatment patterns in New S..

Impact of COVID-19 on cancer service delivery: a follow-up international survey of oncology clinicians.

G Chazan, F Franchini, M Alexander, S Banerjee, L Mileshkin, P Blinman, R Zielinski, D Karikios, N Pavlakis, S Peters, F Lordick, D Ball, G Wright, M IJzerman, BJ Solomon

Journal article  |  2021  |  ESMO Open

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a vast impact on cancer service delivery around the world. Previously reported results f..

A Deep Learning Model to Automate Skeletal Muscle Area Measurement on Computed Tomography Images

Kaushalya C Amarasinghe, Jamie Lopes, Julian Beraldo, Nicole Kiss, Nicholas Bucknell, Sarah Everitt, Price Jackson, Cassandra Litchfield, Linda Denehy, Benjamin J Blyth, Shankar Siva, Michael MacManus, David Ball, Jason Li, Nicholas Hardcastle

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY

Background: Muscle wasting (Sarcopenia) is associated with poor outcomes in cancer patients. Early identification of sarcopenia ca..

Controversies in the role of radiotherapy in pleural mesothelioma

Gerard G Hanna, Thomas John, David L Ball

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRANSLATIONAL LUNG CANCER RESEARCH

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is an uncommon thoracic cancer with a relatively poor outcome, which has only seen modest improveme..

Excess mortality and undertreatment in elderly lung cancer patients: treatment nihilism in the modern era?

Jonathan Pham, Matthew Conron, Gavin Wright, Paul Mitchell, David Ball, Jennifer Philip, Margaret Brand, John Zalcberg, Rob G Stirling

Journal article  |  2021  |  ERJ OPEN RESEARCH

Treatment of elderly patients with lung cancer is significantly hindered by concerns about treatment tolerability, toxicity and li..

Living with and beyond metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: the survivorship experience for people treated with immunotherapy or targeted therapy

Julia Lai-Kwon, Sarah Heynemann, Jacinthe Flore, Haryana Dhillon, Mary Duffy, John Burke, Lisa Briggs, Lillian Leigh, Linda Mileshkin, Benjamin Solomon, David Ball, Renata Kokanovic, Michael Jefford

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP

PURPOSE: Immunotherapy (IT) and targeted therapy (TT) have improved survival for some patients with metastatic non-small cell lung..

MA04.09 Impacts of Multidisciplinary Meeting Presentation: Drivers and Outcomes from a Population Registry Retrospective Cohort study

T Lin, J Pham, E Paul, M Conron, G Wright, D Ball, P Mitchell, N Atkin, S Harden, M Brand, J Zalcberg, R Stirling

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Journal of Thoracic Oncology