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Sigurdís Haraldsdóttir - Associate Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Sigurdís Haraldsdóttir
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Location
LSH - Hringbraut
Email
sigurdis [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Medicine
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5050-3699
Research portal – Sigurdís Haraldsdóttir
Courses 2024 - 2025
LÆK508F - Cancer epidemiology, diagnosis and clinical management
LÆK202F - Internal Medicine, theoretical
LÆK203F - Internal Medicine, Clinical
Published works
2023
Large Cancer Pedigree Involving Multiple Cancer Genes including Likely Digenic MSH2 and MSH6 Lynch Syndrome (LS) and an Instance of Recombinational Rescue from LS
Cancers
Metachronous Colorectal Cancer in Icelandic MSH6 and PMS2 Lynch Syndrome Carriers in 1955-2017
Gastroenterology
2022
Germline Testing for Individuals with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and Novel Genetic Risk Factors
Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America
Universal tumor screening in a population with MSH6- and PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome
Genetics in Medicine
2021
Universal Screening of Gastrointestinal Malignancies for Mismatch Repair Deficiency at Stanford
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
A prospective prostate cancer screening programme for men with pathogenic variants in mismatch repair genes (IMPACT)
The Lancet Oncology
Profiling diverse sequence tandem repeats in colorectal cancer reveals co-occurrence of microsatellite and chromosomal instability involving Chromosome 8
Genome Medicine
Mismatch Repair (MMR) Gene Alteration and BRAF V600E Mutation Are Potential Predictive Biomarkers of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in MMR-Deficient Colorectal Cancer
Oncologist
Implementing Systematic Genetic Counseling and Multigene Germline Testing for Individuals With Pancreatic Cancer
JCO Oncology Practice
Implementation of a cloud-based electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) platform in patients with advanced cancer
Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
2020
Germline testing for patients with BRCA1/2 mutations on somatic tumor testing
JNCI Cancer Spectrum
An amino-terminal BRAF deletion accounting for acquired resistance to RAF/EGFR inhibition in colorectal cancer
Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies
Immune-Related Adverse Events and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Efficacy in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer with Food and Drug Administration-Approved Indications for Immunotherapy
Oncologist
2019
Microsatellite instability and adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer
American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials
Methylated SEPTIN9 plasma test for colorectal cancer detection may be applicable to Lynch syndrome
BMJ Open Gastroenterology
Genetic/Familial high-risk assessment
JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Comparison of definitive chemoradiation with 5-fluorouracil versus capecitabine in anal cancer
Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology
Clinical characteristics of patients with colorectal cancer with double somatic mismatch repair mutations compared with Lynch syndrome
Journal of Medical Genetics
2018
Management of Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer
International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
Phase I trial of dabrafenib and pazopanib in BRAF mutated advanced malignancies
JCO Precision Oncology
The risk of developing a mismatch repair deficient colorectal cancer after undergoing cholecystectomy
Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
Phenotypes of organ involvement in sarcoidosis
European Respiratory Journal
Histology of colorectal adenocarcinoma with double somatic mismatch-repair mutations is indistinguishable from those caused by Lynch syndrome
Human Pathology
Tumor Molecular Testing Guides Anti-PD-1 Therapy and Provides Evidence for Pathogenicity of Mismatch Repair Variants
Oncologist
Targeting BRAF mutations in high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma of the colon
JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Promising New Agents for Colorectal Cancer
Current Treatment Options in Oncology
2017
Comprehensive population-wide analysis of Lynch syndrome in Iceland reveals founder mutations in MSH6 and PMS2.
Nature Communications
Comprehensive population-wide analysis of Lynch syndrome in Iceland reveals founder mutations in MSH6 and PMS2
Nature Communications
Conversion Therapy for Initially Borderline/Unresectable Metastases in Colon Cancer
Current Colorectal Cancer Reports
Microsatellite instability testing using next-generation sequencing data and therapy implications
JCO Precision Oncology
2016
Medullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid: Chemotherapy
Patients with colorectal cancer associated with Lynch syndrome and MLH1 promoter hypermethylation have similar prognoses
Genetics in Medicine
Chemotherapy of Thyroid Cancer: General Principles
Mismatch repair deficiency concordance between primary colorectal cancer and corresponding metastasis
Familial Cancer
Radiation recall dermatitis with concomitant dabrafenib and pazopanib therapy
JAMA Dermatology
Frequent PIK3CA Mutations in Colorectal and Endometrial Tumors With 2 or More Somatic Mutations in Mismatch Repair Genes
Gastroenterology
Discordant mismatch repair protein immunoreactivity in lynch syndrome-associated neoplasms
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Chemotherapy for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Potential Approaches to Chemotherapy of Thyroid Cancer
2015
Circulating tumor markers in patients with neuroendocrine tumors-a clinical perspective
International Journal of Endocrine Oncology
2014
Prostate cancer incidence in males with Lynch syndrome
Genetics in Medicine
Colon and endometrial cancers with mismatch repair deficiency can arise from somatic, rather than germline, mutations
Gastroenterology
How Can Next-Generation Sequencing (Genomics) Help Us in Treating Colorectal Cancer?
Current Colorectal Cancer Reports
Krabbamein í ristli og endaþarmi
Læknablaðið
New era for treatment in differentiated thyroid cancer
The Lancet
Colorectal cancer – review
Læknablaðið
Krabbamein í ristli og endaþarmi
Læknablaðið
An update on clinical trials of targeted therapies in thyroid cancer
Current Opinion in Oncology
2013
Integrating anti-EGFR therapies in metastatic colorectal cancer
Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology
Case of sorafenib-induced thyroid storm
Journal of Clinical Oncology
What is the optimal neo-adjuvant treatment for liver metastasis?
Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
2012
A single institutional experience with panitumumab in metastatic colorectal cancer.
Journal of Cancer Therapy
2010
Diagnostic accuracy of 64-slice multidetector CT for detection of in-stent restenosis in an unselected, consecutive patient population
European Journal of Radiology
2009
Clinical evaluation and stress test have limited value in the diagnosis of in-stent restenosis
Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal
2008
Greiningarhæfni 64 sneiða tölvusneiðmyndatækni til samanburðar við hefðbundna kransæðaþræðingu
Læknablaðið
Greiningarhæfni 64 sneiǒa ölvusneiǒ myndatækni
Laeknabladid
2004
Anti-proliferative effects of lichen-derived lipoxygenase inhibitors on twelve human cancer cell lines of different tissue origin in vitro
Planta Medica
2002
Effects of tenuiorin and methyl orsellinate from the lichen Peltigera leucophlebia on 5-/15-lipoxygenases and proliferation of malignant cell lines in vitro
Phytomedicine
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