Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
Professor Gina Brown is the Chair of Gastrointestinal Imaging at Imperial College London. Her research interests are in Upper and Lower GI Malignancies. She pioneered the investigation of imaging prognostic factors such as MRI prediction of CRM status, assessing response to treatment, assessment of nodes , extramural vascular invasion in colon and rectal cancer which helps to guide treatment to improve patient outcomes. This led to identification of key imaging predictors of patients at risk of developing local recurrence and metastatic disease now being targeted for treatment in larger phase II/III trials. Professor Brown developed staging criteria in colon and rectal cancer and standards for reporting now adopted globally. She has been responsible for the training and roll-out of high quality rectal cancer MRI staging to over 180 multidisciplinary colorectal teams through handson specialist workshops which have also been run successfully internationally as face to face and virtual training workshops.
She initiated and developed the UK Deferral of Surgery trial protocol for rectal cancer patients in response to patients’ desires to avoid permanent stoma and defined the post radiotherapy MRI criteria to identify complete responders eligible for avoidance of surgery now being tested in the prospective randomised clinical trial, TRIGGER.
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