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Digital pathology for reporting histopathology samples, including cancer screening samples – definitive evidence from a multisite study (2024)
Journal Article
Azam, A. S., Tsang, Y., Thirlwall, J., Kimani, P. K., Sah, S., Gopalakrishnan, K., …Snead, D. R. J. (2024). Digital pathology for reporting histopathology samples, including cancer screening samples – definitive evidence from a multisite study. Histopathology, 84(5), 847-862. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.15129

Aims: To conduct a definitive multicentre comparison of digital pathology (DP) with light microscopy (LM) for reporting histopathology slides including breast and bowel cancer screening samples. Methods: A total of 2024 cases (608 breast, 607 GI, 6... Read More about Digital pathology for reporting histopathology samples, including cancer screening samples – definitive evidence from a multisite study.

Associations between AI-Assisted Tumor Amphiregulin and Epiregulin IHC and Outcomes from Anti-EGFR Therapy in the Routine Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer (2023)
Journal Article
Williams, C. J. M., Elliott, F., Sapanara, N., Aghaei, F., Zhang, L., Muranyi, A., …Quirke, P. (2023). Associations between AI-Assisted Tumor Amphiregulin and Epiregulin IHC and Outcomes from Anti-EGFR Therapy in the Routine Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 29(20), 4153-4165. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-23-0859

Purpose: High tumor production of the EGFR ligands, amphiregulin (AREG) and epiregulin (EREG), predicted benefit from anti-EGFR therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) in a retrospective analysis of clinical trial data. Here, AREG/EREG IHC wa... Read More about Associations between AI-Assisted Tumor Amphiregulin and Epiregulin IHC and Outcomes from Anti-EGFR Therapy in the Routine Management of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.

Activated tissue resident memory T-cells (CD8+CD103+CD39+) uniquely predict survival in left sided “immune-hot” colorectal cancers (2023)
Journal Article
Talhouni, S., Fadhil, W., Mongan, N. P., Field, L., Hunter, K., Makhsous, S., …Ramage, J. M. (2023). Activated tissue resident memory T-cells (CD8+CD103+CD39+) uniquely predict survival in left sided “immune-hot” colorectal cancers. Frontiers in Immunology, 14, Article 1057292. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1057292

Introduction: Characterization of the tumour immune infiltrate (notably CD8+ T-cells) has strong predictive survival value for cancer patients. Quantification of CD8 T-cells alone cannot determine antigenic experience, as not all infiltrating T-cells... Read More about Activated tissue resident memory T-cells (CD8+CD103+CD39+) uniquely predict survival in left sided “immune-hot” colorectal cancers.

Genome Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia, ASEAN and the Neighbouring East Asian Countries: Features, Challenges and Achievements (2022)
Journal Article
Cahyani, I., Putro, E. W., Ridwanuloh, A. M., Wibowo, S., Hariyatun, H., Syahputra, G., …Susanti, S. (2022). Genome Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia, ASEAN and the Neighbouring East Asian Countries: Features, Challenges and Achievements. Viruses, 14(4), Article 778. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14040778

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has played a significant role in understanding the epidemiology and biology of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Here, we investigate the use of SARS-CoV-2 WGS in Southeast and East Asian countries as a genomic surveillance during the C... Read More about Genome Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in Indonesia, ASEAN and the Neighbouring East Asian Countries: Features, Challenges and Achievements.

Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource? (2021)
Journal Article
Pijuan-Galito, S., Tarantini, F. S., Tomlin, H., Jenkins, H., Thompson, J. L., Scales, D., …Denning, C. (2021). Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource?. Frontiers in Virology, 1, Article 778790. https://doi.org/10.3389/fviro.2021.778790

During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries with robust population-based asymptomatic testing were generally successful in controlling virus spread, hence reducing hospitalizations and deaths. This effectiveness inspired widespread asymptomatic surveilla... Read More about Saliva for COVID-19 testing: Simple but useless or an undervalued resource?.

Ran GTPase is an independent prognostic marker in malignant melanoma which promotes tumour cell migration and invasion (2020)
Journal Article
Elsheikh, S., Kouzoukakis, I., Fielden, C., Li, W., Lashin, S. E., Khair, N., …Ilyas, M. (2022). Ran GTPase is an independent prognostic marker in malignant melanoma which promotes tumour cell migration and invasion. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 75(1), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206871

Aims Ran GTPase is involved in nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of proteins and is overexpressed in several cancers. The expression of Ran in malignant melanoma (MM) and its functional activity have not been described and were investigated in this study.... Read More about Ran GTPase is an independent prognostic marker in malignant melanoma which promotes tumour cell migration and invasion.

Immuno-Interface Score to Predict Outcome in Colorectal Cancer Independent of Microsatellite Instability Status (2020)
Journal Article
Nestarenkaite, A., Fadhil, W., Rasmusson, A., Susanti, S., Hadjimichael, E., Laurinaviciene, A., …Laurinavicius, A. (2020). Immuno-Interface Score to Predict Outcome in Colorectal Cancer Independent of Microsatellite Instability Status. Cancers, 12(10), Article 2902. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12102902

Tumor-associated immune cells have been shown to predict patient outcome in colorectal (CRC) and other cancers. Spatial digital image analysis-based cell quantification increases the informative power delivered by tumor microenvironment features and... Read More about Immuno-Interface Score to Predict Outcome in Colorectal Cancer Independent of Microsatellite Instability Status.

Tensin4 (TNS4) is upregulated by Wnt signalling in adenomas in multiple intestinal neoplasia (Min) mice (2020)
Journal Article
Raposo, T. P., Alfahed, A., Nateri, A. S., & Ilyas, M. (2020). Tensin4 (TNS4) is upregulated by Wnt signalling in adenomas in multiple intestinal neoplasia (Min) mice. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 101(3-4), 80-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12352

ApcMin/+ mice are regarded as a standard animal model of colorectal cancer (CRC). Tensin4 (TNS4 or Cten) is a putative oncogene conferring features of stemness and promoting motility. Our objective was to assess TNS4 expression in intestinal adenomas... Read More about Tensin4 (TNS4) is upregulated by Wnt signalling in adenomas in multiple intestinal neoplasia (Min) mice.

Investigating TNS4 in the Colorectal Tumor Microenvironment Using 3D Spheroid Models of Invasion (2020)
Journal Article
Raposo, T. P., Susanti, S., & Ilyas, M. (2020). Investigating TNS4 in the Colorectal Tumor Microenvironment Using 3D Spheroid Models of Invasion. Advanced Biosystems, 4(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202000031

TNS4 (Tensin 4 or Cten) is a putative oncogene in colorectal cancer (CRC) with a role in regulating cell adhesion, motility, invasion, and epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). The objective is to study the role of TNS4 in CRC using more realis... Read More about Investigating TNS4 in the Colorectal Tumor Microenvironment Using 3D Spheroid Models of Invasion.

Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo (2020)
Journal Article
Rostam, H. M., Fisher, L. E., Hook, A. L., Burroughs, L., Luckett, J. C., Figueredo, G. P., …Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2020). Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo. Matter, 2(6), 1564-1581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.03.018

© 2020 The Author(s) Implantation of medical devices can result in inflammation. A large library of polymers is screened, and a selection found to promote macrophage differentiation towards pro- or anti-inflammatory phenotypes. The bioinstructive pro... Read More about Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo.

Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation (2019)
Book Chapter
Hou, X., Liu, J., Xu, B., Liu, B., Chen, X., Garibaldi, J., …Qiu, G. (2019). Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation. In Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2019: 22nd International Conference, Shenzhen, China, October 13–17, 2019, Proceedings, Part II (101-109). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32245-8_12

Supervised semantic segmentation normally assumes the test data being in a similar data domain as the training data. However, in practice, the domain mismatch between the training and unseen data could lead to a significant performance drop. Obtainin... Read More about Dual Adaptive Pyramid Network for Cross-Stain Histopathology Image Segmentation.

Presence of Vascular Invasion in Colorectal Cancer Correlates with TNM8 Nodal Status Classification (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fadhil, W., Ilyas, M., & Mukherjee, A. (2019). Presence of Vascular Invasion in Colorectal Cancer Correlates with TNM8 Nodal Status Classification. In Leeds Pathology 2019 Supplement: 12th Joint Meeting of the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology and the Pathological Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2–4 July 2019 (S41). https://doi.org/10.1002/path.5345

Purpose of the study: Vascular invasion (VI) is an important prognostic marker in several malignancies including colorectal cancer (CRC). The correlation between the VI status and the revised nodal stage of CRC as per TNM8, was investigated in this s... Read More about Presence of Vascular Invasion in Colorectal Cancer Correlates with TNM8 Nodal Status Classification.

Cten promotes Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in colorectal cancer through stabilisation of Src (2019)
Journal Article
Asiri, A., Toss, M. S., Raposo, T. P., Akhlaq, M., Thorpe, H., Alfahed, A., …Ilyas, M. (2019). Cten promotes Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in colorectal cancer through stabilisation of Src. Pathology International, 69(7), 381-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/pin.12811

Cten is an oncogene promoting EMT in many signaling pathways, namely through Snail. We investigated whether Cten function could be mediated through Src. Cten levels were modulated by forced expression in HCT116 and gene knockdown in SW620 CRC (colore... Read More about Cten promotes Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) in colorectal cancer through stabilisation of Src.

TGF?1-induced cell motility but not cell proliferation is mediated through Cten in colorectal cancer (2018)
Journal Article
Asiri, A., Raposo, T. P., Alfahed, A., & Ilyas, M. (2018). TGF?1-induced cell motility but not cell proliferation is mediated through Cten in colorectal cancer. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 99(6), 323-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12300

Cten (C-terminal tensin-like) is a member of the tensin protein family found in complex with integrins at focal adhesions. It promotes epithelial?mesenchymal transition (EMT) and cell motility. The precise mechanisms regulating Cten are unknown, alth... Read More about TGF?1-induced cell motility but not cell proliferation is mediated through Cten in colorectal cancer.

FLYWCH1, a novel suppressor of nuclear b-catenin, regulates migration and morphology in colorectal cancer (2018)
Journal Article
Muhammad, B. A., Almozyan, S., Babaei-Jadidi, R., Onyido, E. K., Saadeddin, A., Kashfi, S. H., …Nateri, A. S. (2018). FLYWCH1, a novel suppressor of nuclear b-catenin, regulates migration and morphology in colorectal cancer. Molecular Cancer Research, 16(12), 1977-1990. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-18-0262

© 2018 American Association for Cancer Research. Wnt/b-catenin signaling plays a critical role during development of both normal and malignant colorectal cancer tissues. Phosphorylation of b-catenin protein alters its trafficking and function. Such c... Read More about FLYWCH1, a novel suppressor of nuclear b-catenin, regulates migration and morphology in colorectal cancer.

CD10 inhibits cell motility but expression is associated with advanced stage disease in colorectal cancer (2018)
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Raposo, T., Comes, M. S., Idowu, A., Agit, B., Hassall, J., Fadhil, W., …Ilyas, M. (2018). CD10 inhibits cell motility but expression is associated with advanced stage disease in colorectal cancer. Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 104(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yexmp.2018.04.002

Introduction CD10 is a cell membrane-bound endopeptidase which is expressed in normal small bowel but not in normal colon. It is aberrantly expressed in a small proportion of colorectal cancers (CRC) and this has been associated with liver metastasi... Read More about CD10 inhibits cell motility but expression is associated with advanced stage disease in colorectal cancer.

N_LyST: a simple and rapid screening test for Lynch Syndrome (2018)
Journal Article
Susanti, S., Fadhil, W., Ebili, H. O., Asiri, A., Nestarenkaite, A., Hadjimichael, E., …Ilyas, M. (2018). N_LyST: a simple and rapid screening test for Lynch Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 71(8), 713-720. https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2018-205013

Aims: We sought to use PCR followed by high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis to develop a single closed-tube screening panel to screen for Lynch Syndrome. This comprises tests for microsatellite instability (MSI), MLH1 methylation promoter and BRAF... Read More about N_LyST: a simple and rapid screening test for Lynch Syndrome.

MDM2 expression in the progression of Barrett’s oesophagus (2018)
Journal Article
Robinson, L., Ilyas, M., Ragunath, K., Card, T. R., Abradu-Berchie, B., & Kaye, P. (2018). MDM2 expression in the progression of Barrett’s oesophagus. Histopathology, 72(7), 1230-1233. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13480

Barrett's oesophagus (BO) is the main precursor for oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC), and dysplasia arising within it is the standard marker used to predict risk of malignant progression. However, dysplasia diagnosis is subject to a significant amoun... Read More about MDM2 expression in the progression of Barrett’s oesophagus.

Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC (2018)
Journal Article
Kaewkangsadan, V., Verma, C., Eremin, J. M., Cowley, G. P., Ilyas, M., & Eremin, O. (2018). Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC. BMC Cancer, 18, Article 123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4044-z

Background The tumour microenvironment consists of malignant cells, stroma and immune cells. In women with large and locally advanced breast cancers (LLABCs) undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), variou... Read More about Tumour-draining axillary lymph nodes in patients with large and locally advanced breast cancers undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC): the crucial contribution of immune cells (effector, regulatory) and cytokines (TH1, TH2) to immune-mediated tumour cell death induced by NAC.

Cten promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition through post-transcriptional stabilization of Snail (2017)
Journal Article
Thorpe, H., Asiri, A., Akhlaq, M., & Ilyas, M. (in press). Cten promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition through post-transcriptional stabilization of Snail. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 56(12), https://doi.org/10.1002/mc.22704

Cten promotes cell migration however the knowledge of underlying signalling pathways is sparse. We have shown that Cten downregulates E-cadherin, a feature of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). This prompted us to investigate whether Cten fu... Read More about Cten promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition through post-transcriptional stabilization of Snail.

The differential contribution of the innate immune system to a good pathological response in the breast and axillary lymph nodes induced by neoadjuvant chemotherapy in women with large and locally advanced breast cancers (2017)
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Kaewkangsadan, V., Verma, C., Eremin, J. M., Cowley, G. P., Ilyas, M., Satthaporn, S., & Eremin, O. (2017). The differential contribution of the innate immune system to a good pathological response in the breast and axillary lymph nodes induced by neoadjuvant chemotherapy in women with large and locally advanced breast cancers. Journal of Immunology Research, 2017, Article 1049023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1049023

The tumour microenvironment consists of malignant cells, stroma, and immune cells. The role of adaptive immunity in inducing a pathological complete response (pCR) in breast cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is well studied. The contribution... Read More about The differential contribution of the innate immune system to a good pathological response in the breast and axillary lymph nodes induced by neoadjuvant chemotherapy in women with large and locally advanced breast cancers.

A refined method to study gene dosage changes in-vitro using CRISPR/Cas9 (2017)
Journal Article
Raposo, T., Ebili, H., & Ilyas, M. (in press). A refined method to study gene dosage changes in-vitro using CRISPR/Cas9. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 71(3), https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204558

Aims: Gene dosage can have a major impact on cell biology although, hitherto, is has been difficult to study using in-vitro models. We sought to refine and accelerate the development of “gene dosage” models through using CRISPR/Cas9 (a gene-editing t... Read More about A refined method to study gene dosage changes in-vitro using CRISPR/Cas9.

HER2 challenge contest: a detailed assessment of automated HER2 scoring algorithms in whole slide images of breast cancer tissues (2017)
Journal Article
Qaiser, T., Mukherjee, A., Reddy Pb, C., Munugoti, S. D., Tallam, V., Pitkäaho, T., …Rajpoot, N. (2018). HER2 challenge contest: a detailed assessment of automated HER2 scoring algorithms in whole slide images of breast cancer tissues. Histopathology, 72(2), 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1111/his.13333

Aims Evaluating expression of the Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her2) by visual examination of immunohistochemistry (IHC) on invasive breast cancer (BCa) is a key part of the diagnostic assessment of BCa due to its recognised importanc... Read More about HER2 challenge contest: a detailed assessment of automated HER2 scoring algorithms in whole slide images of breast cancer tissues.

Statistical colour models: an automated digital image analysis method for quantification of histological biomarkers (2016)
Journal Article
Shu, J., Dolman, G., Duan, J., Qiu, G., & Ilyas, M. (in press). Statistical colour models: an automated digital image analysis method for quantification of histological biomarkers. BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-016-0161-6

Background: Colour is the most important feature used in quantitative immunohisto- chemistry (IHC) image analysis; IHC is used to provide information relating to aetiology and to con rm malignancy. Methods: Statistical modelling is a technique widel... Read More about Statistical colour models: an automated digital image analysis method for quantification of histological biomarkers.

STAT3 paradoxically stimulates ??catenin expression but inhibits ??catenin function (2014)
Journal Article
Ibrahem, S., Al‐Ghamdi, S., Baloch, K., Muhammad, B., Fadhil, W., Jackson, D., …Ilyas, M. (2014). STAT3 paradoxically stimulates β‐catenin expression but inhibits β‐catenin function. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 95(6), 392-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12102

Wnt signalling and the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) are oncogenic signalling pathways which are deregulated in colorectal cancer (CRC). Here we investigated the interaction of these two pathways. Firstly, we investigated... Read More about STAT3 paradoxically stimulates ??catenin expression but inhibits ??catenin function.

DNA content analysis of colorectal cancer defines a distinct ‘microsatellite and chromosome stable’ group but does not predict response to radiotherapy (2014)
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Fadhil, W., Kindle, K., Jackson, D., Zaitoun, A. M., Lane, N., Robins, A., & Ilyas, M. (2014). DNA content analysis of colorectal cancer defines a distinct ‘microsatellite and chromosome stable’ group but does not predict response to radiotherapy. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 95(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/iep.12070

Colorectal cancers (CRC) are thought to have genetic instability in the form of either microsatellite instability (MSI) or chromosomal instability (CIN). Recently, tumours have been described without either MSI or CIN, that is, microsatellite and chr... Read More about DNA content analysis of colorectal cancer defines a distinct ‘microsatellite and chromosome stable’ group but does not predict response to radiotherapy.

A novel polar space random field model for the detection of glandular structures (2014)
Journal Article
Fu, H., Qiu, G., Shu, J., & Ilyas, M. (2014). A novel polar space random field model for the detection of glandular structures. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 33(3), 764-776. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2013.2296572

In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect glandular structures in microscopic images of human tissue. We first convert the image from Cartesian space to polar space and then introduce a novel random field model to locate the possible boundar... Read More about A novel polar space random field model for the detection of glandular structures.

The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays (2013)
Journal Article
Tewari, N., Zaitoun, A. M., Arora, A., Madhusudan, S., Ilyas, M., & Lobo, D. N. (2013). The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays. BMC Cancer, 13, Article 436. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-436

Background Tumour-associated lymphocytes (TALs) have been linked with good prognosis in several solid tumours. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of CD3, CD8 and CD20 positive lymphocytes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.... Read More about The presence of tumour-associated lymphocytes confers a good prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays.