Bridget Anne Robinson is a New Zealand oncology academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the

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, holding the Mackenzie Chair since 2010.

Academic career

After a 1985 MD titled '' 'Effects of vasoactive agents on tumour blood flow and cytotoxic drug uptake' '' at the

, followed by a 1987 PhD of the same title, Robinson joined the staff in

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in 1997, rising to full professor. In the

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, Robinson was appointed an

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, for services to medicine.

Selected works

* Hanrahan, Vickie, Margaret J. Currie, Sarah P. Gunningham, Helen R. Morrin, Prudence AE Scott, Bridget A. Robinson, and Stephen B. Fox. "The angiogenic switch for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A, VEGF-B, VEGF-C, and VEGF-D in the adenoma–carcinoma sequence during colorectal cancer progression." The Journal of Pathology: A Journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland 200, no. 2 (2003): 183–194. * Valle, Juan W., Daniel Palmer, Richard Jackson, Trevor Cox, John P. Neoptolemos, Paula Ghaneh, Charlotte L. Rawcliffe, Bridget A. Robinson, et al. "Optimal duration and timing of adjuvant chemotherapy after definitive surgery for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: ongoing lessons from the ESPAC-3 study."

Journal of Clinical Oncology The ''Journal of Clinical Oncology'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 3 times a month by ASCO Publications. It covers research on all aspects of clinical oncology. The journal was established in 1983 and the editor-in-chief is Jonat ...

32, no. 6 (2014): 504–512. * Harvey, Vernon, Henning Mouridsen, Vladimir Semiglazov, Erik Jakobsen, Edouard Voznyi, Bridget A. Robinson, Vanina Groult, Michael Murawsky, and Soeren Cold. "Phase III trial comparing three doses of docetaxel for second-line treatment of advanced breast cancer."

24, no. 31 (2006): 4963–4970. * Van Hazel, Guy A., Volker Heinemann, Navesh K. Sharma, M. P. Findlay, Jens Ricke, Marc Peeters, David Perez, Bridget A. Robinson, et al. "SIRFLOX: randomized phase III trial comparing first-line mFOLFOX6 (plus or minus bevacizumab) versus mFOLFOX6 (plus or minus bevacizumab) plus selective internal radiation therapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer."

J Clin Oncol The ''Journal of Clinical Oncology'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 3 times a month by ASCO Publications. It covers research on all aspects of clinical oncology. The journal was established in 1983 and the editor-in-chief is Jonatha ...

34, no. 15 (2016): 1723–1731.

References

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