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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

45 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

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

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    Value of the loss of heterozygosity to BRCA1 variant classification
    DOI: 10.1038/s41523-021-00361-2
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Rare germline copy number variants (CNVs) and breast cancer risk
    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02990-6
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Novel Germline Mutations in a Cohort of Men with Familial Prostate Cancer
    DOI: 10.3390/cancers14153623
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Pathology of tumors associated with pathogenic germline variants in 9 breast cancer susceptibility genes
    DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.6744

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