Carolyn Taylor

BM BCh (oxon) MA MRCP FRCR DPhil

Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Oncologist

Carolyn Taylor is a consultant clinical oncologist and clinical research fellow. She studied medicine at Oxford University. Her clinical training was in general medicine and then clinical oncology. She gained Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 2004.

Since then she has worked as a clinical research fellow at the Clinical Trial Service Unit, doing research alongside clinical work. She completed her DPhil on the risk of heart disease after breast cancer radiotherapy in 2008. She works in the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group on trials of surgery and radiotherapy and in a Cancer Research UK research program on the benefits and risks of breast cancer treatments.

Recent publications

Cardiovascular disease incidence after internal mammary chain irradiation and anthracycline-based chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Journal article

Boekel NB. et al, (2018), Br J Cancer
Exposure of the lungs in breast cancer radiotherapy: A systematic review of lung doses published 2010-2015.
Journal article

Aznar MC. et al, (2018), Radiother Oncol, 126, 148 - 154
Long-term outcomes for neoadjuvant versus adjuvant chemotherapy in early breast cancer: meta-analysis of individual patient data from ten randomised trials
Journal article

Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) None. et al, (2018), The Lancet Oncology, 19, 27 - 39
20-Year Risks of Breast-Cancer Recurrence after Stopping Endocrine Therapy at 5 Years
Journal article

Pan H. et al, (2017), New England Journal of Medicine, 377, 1836 - 1846
Estimating the risks of breast cancer radiotherapy: Evidence from modern radiation doses to the lungs and heart and from previous randomised trials
Journal article

Taylor C. et al, (2017), Journal of Clinical Oncology, 35, 1641 - 1649

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