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Alan Nichol

ResearcherComputer ScienceUniversity of British Columbia

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Alan Nichol

Researcher

Computer Science

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
28 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2026.

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Research

Breast Cancer Care Cancer Delivery Health Services Research Machine Learning

Latest papers

Large-scale DNA organization analysis of primary breast cancers for prediction of axillary lymph node metastases.
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026
Osimertinib and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases in EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer: The STARLET Joint Analysis of OUTRUN and LUOSICNS Randomized Trials.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2026
Author's response to Letter to the Editor "causes of death in older patients with high-risk breast cancer: What are the most significant contributors?".
Journal of geriatric oncology · 2026

All 73 publications

Latest funding

SMART-BC: A Scalable Machine-Assisted Referral Triage system for Breast Cancer care
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$100,000
Oncologic, surgical, and patient reported outcomes following breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Surgical, oncologic, and patient reported outcomes following breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 4 grants and awards

73 publications.

Large-scale DNA organization analysis of primary breast cancers for prediction of axillary lymph node metastases.

Alabi N, Nichol A, Inaba F, Carraro A, El-Hallani S, Guillaud M

Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland)2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2026.104712 PMID: 41637792

Osimertinib and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases in EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer: The STARLET Joint Analysis of OUTRUN and LUOSICNS Randomized Trials.

Lee CK, Lefresne S, Soon YY, Robledo K, Nichol A, Sahgal A, Pinkham MB, Melosky B, Huang Y, McDermott R, Tham IWK, Parmar A, Tey JCS, Liu M, Solomon BJ, Sacher A, Leong CN, Laskin J, Koh WY, Menjak IB, Ang Y, Shultz DB, Low JL, Doherty M, Yong C, Lim MC, Tan AP, Soo RA, Hegi-Johnson F, Ho C

Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2026.01.001 PMID: 41534788

Author's response to Letter to the Editor "causes of death in older patients with high-risk breast cancer: What are the most significant contributors?".

Li H, Gondara L, Speers C, Lohrisch C, Nichol A, Musoke R, Mariano C

Journal of geriatric oncology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2026.102974 PMID: 41997763

Driving safety in patients with primary brain tumours and brain metastases in Canada: a scoping review.

Nishimura K, Yao J, Lapointe S, Harrison R, Chahal M, Lim-Fat MJ, Alli S, Michaud K, Makarenko S, Fatehi Hassanabad M, Nichol A, Oh J

Annals of palliative medicine2026

DOI: 10.21037/apm-2025-1-136 PMID: 41867013

Root Cause Analysis of Omissions and Delays in the Initiation of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Eligible Patients with Breast Cancer in British Columbia, Canada.

Chan JLH, Lee JJ, Ohm H, Isaac KV, Nichol A

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol33020087 PMID: 41744850

Causes of death in older patients with high-risk breast cancer: What are the most significant contributors?

Li H, Gondara L, Speers C, Lohrisch C, Nichol A, Musoke R, Mariano C

Journal of geriatric oncology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2025.102348 PMID: 40876102

A Matched Case-Control Study of the Relationship Between Radiation Dose to the Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With and Without Internal Mammary Lymph Node Relapses.

Nichol A, Wade L, Gondara L, Musoke R, Chang JS, Swift CL, Chng N, Narinesingh D, Speers C, Lohrisch C

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2025.02.007 PMID: 39986486

Phase II single vs hypofractionated irradiation for timely access to partial breast radiotherapy (SHIFT-PB).

Olson R, Cua M, Matthews Q, Laing J, Narinesingh D, Nichol A, Berrang T, Koulis T, Karan T, Chng N

BMC cancer2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14720-w PMID: 40781619

Population-Based Real-World Outcomes of Post-Operative Adjuvant Brain Cavity Radiotherapy Versus Observation.

Li ZHJ, Lechner L, Wang J, Yao NHS, Lee A, Makarenko S, Fatehi M, Choi HHF, Gete E, Hsu F, Sharieff W, Rathod S, Carolan H, Chan J, Ma R, Nichol A, Nghiem T, Oh J

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2025

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol32060345 PMID: 40558288

Clinical impact of radiotherapy quality assurance results in contemporary cancer trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Jomy J, Sharma R, Lu R, Chen D, Ataalla P, Kaushal S, Liu ZA, Ye XY, Fairchild A, Nichol A, Raman S

Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2025.110875 PMID: 40185159

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Alan Nichol

Research

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Latest funding

Large-scale DNA organization analysis of primary breast cancers for prediction of axillary lymph node metastases.

Osimertinib and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases in EGFR-Mutated Lung Cancer: The STARLET Joint Analysis of OUTRUN and LUOSICNS Randomized Trials.

Author's response to Letter to the Editor "causes of death in older patients with high-risk breast cancer: What are the most significant contributors?".

Driving safety in patients with primary brain tumours and brain metastases in Canada: a scoping review.

Root Cause Analysis of Omissions and Delays in the Initiation of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Eligible Patients with Breast Cancer in British Columbia, Canada.

Causes of death in older patients with high-risk breast cancer: What are the most significant contributors?

A Matched Case-Control Study of the Relationship Between Radiation Dose to the Internal Mammary Lymph Nodes and Clinical Outcomes in Patients With and Without Internal Mammary Lymph Node Relapses.

Phase II single vs hypofractionated irradiation for timely access to partial breast radiotherapy (SHIFT-PB).

Population-Based Real-World Outcomes of Post-Operative Adjuvant Brain Cavity Radiotherapy Versus Observation.

Clinical impact of radiotherapy quality assurance results in contemporary cancer trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

SMART-BC: A Scalable Machine-Assisted Referral Triage system for Breast Cancer care

Oncologic, surgical, and patient reported outcomes following breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.

Surgical, oncologic, and patient reported outcomes following breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.

Evaluating the delivery of breast cancer care for patients undergoing breast reconstruction: A provincial quantitative and qualitative evaluation of care

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