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Email

heather.thorne@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary Conjoint Principal Fellow
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
ORCID

0000-0003-3610-2511

A/Prof Heather Thorne

Honorary Conjoint Principal Fellow
The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

88 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Integrating breast tumour homologous recombination deficiency status to aid germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2026.106199
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Parity and lactation induce T-cell-mediated breast cancer protection
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09713-5
  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Using Real World Data to Drive Cancer Care Research and Delivery
  • 2015

    Journal article

    Altered significance of D'Amico risk classification in patients with prostate cancer linked to a familial breast cancer (kConFab) cohort
    DOI: 10.1111/bju.12792
  • 2012

    Journal article

    High grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia does not display loss of heterozygosity at the mutation locus in BRCA2 mutation carriers with aggressive prostate cancer
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11519.x
  • 2011

    Journal article

    Decreased prostate cancer-specific survival of men with BRCA2 mutations from multiple breast cancer families
    DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-10-0397
  • 2008

    Journal article

    Loss of heterozygosity at the BRCA2 locus detected by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification is common in prostate cancers from men with a germline BRCA2 mutation
    DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-07-5237
Heather Thorne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Co-observation of germline pathogenic variants in breast cancer predisposition genes: Results from analysis of the BRIDGES sequencing dataset
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.07.004
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Research autopsy programmes in oncology: shared experience from 14 centres across the world
    DOI: 10.1002/path.6271
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Association of the CHEK2 c.1100delC variant, radiotherapy, and systemic treatment with contralateral breast cancer risk and breast cancer-specific survival
    DOI: 10.1002/cam4.6272
  • 2023

    Journal article

    BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers with breast, ovarian and prostate cancer demonstrate a different pattern of metastatic disease compared with non-carriers: results from a rapid autopsy programme
    DOI: 10.1111/his.14906
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Impact of concurrent tumour events on the prostate cancer outcomes of germline BRCA2 mutation carriers
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2023.02.022
  • 2023

    Journal article

    The impact of coding germline variants on contralateral breast cancer risk and survival
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.02.003
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Multiomic analysis of homologous recombination-deficient end-stage high-grade serous ovarian cancer
    DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01320-2
  • 2023

    Journal article

    FANCM missense variants and breast cancer risk: a case-control association study of 75,156 European women
    DOI: 10.1038/s41431-022-01257-w

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