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Carol Swallow

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ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Carol Swallow

Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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15 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Supervised 3 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Publications

133

Citations

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144

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Grants

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Research

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Latest papers

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy for primary retroperitoneal well-differentiated liposarcoma: a Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG) propensity score matched analysis.
EClinicalMedicine · 2026
Factors Associated With Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma in CDH1 Pathogenic Variant Carriers: Report From the Group of Investigators Striving Toward Research in CDH1 Consortium.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026
Global Variations in Patterns of Care for Retroperitoneal Sarcoma.
Annals of surgery · 2025

All 38 publications

Latest funding

A Precision-Medicine Approach to Management of Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma (RP LPS) Informed by Genomic Analyses
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$140,000
The Role of the Plk4 Pathway in Gastric Cancer Progression
CIHR · 2021 · Supervisor
$105,000
The role of Hedgehog signaling in basal-like breast cancer and the tumour microenvironment
CIHR · 2019 · Supervisor
$105,000

All 4 grants and awards

38 publications.

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy for primary retroperitoneal well-differentiated liposarcoma: a Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG) propensity score matched analysis.

Fairweather M, Sulciner M, Jolissaint JS, Fiore M, Garcia Ortega DY, Iwata S, Ford SJ, Swallow C, Nizri E, Quagliuolo V, Nessim C, Adamkova D, Rutkowski P, Cardona K, Kim E, Porpiglia AS, Johnston FM, Gyorki DE, Vincenzi B, Corina KF, Kramer S, Blazer D, Tseng WW, Albertsmeier M, González JA, Hompes D, Baldini EH, Gronchi A, Raut CP

EClinicalMedicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.103805 PMID: 41783086

Factors Associated With Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma in CDH1 Pathogenic Variant Carriers: Report From the Group of Investigators Striving Toward Research in CDH1 Consortium.

Gilad O, Drogan CM, Keel E, Gao G, Swallow C, Govindarajan A, Brar S, Heller M, Apostolico T, Jacobs MF, Gofar K, Dudley B, Karloski E, Lombardi C, Springer M, Saha S, Cox D, Lerner BA, Hanna G, Chertock Y, Khan A, Ertan S, Hilfrank K, Rustgi SD, Singh A, Hall MJ, Llor X, Bansal A, Patel SG, Brand RE, Roberts ME, Stanich PP, Stoffel E, Katona BW, Aronson M, Kupfer SS

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2026.07.036 PMID: 42604658

Global Variations in Patterns of Care for Retroperitoneal Sarcoma.

Snow H, Fiore M, Xie J, Strauss D, Tzanis D, Raut CP, Rutkowski P, Ford S, Swallow C, van Houdt WJ, Albertsmeier M, Cananzi F, Sicklick J, Cardona K, Grignol V, Nessim C, Nizri E, Novak M, Pennacchioli E, Valeri S, Callegaro D, Wilkinson M, Bonvalot S, Fairweather M, Skoczylas J, Tirotta F, Shapiro J, Angele MK, Gronchi A, Gyorki DE, Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group

Annals of surgery2025

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000006791 PMID: 40519020

Molecular mechanisms of metastatic peritoneal dissemination in gastric adenocarcinoma.

Ng D, Cyr D, Khan S, Dossa F, Swallow C, Kazazian K

Cancer metastasis reviews2025

DOI: 10.1007/s10555-025-10265-3 PMID: 40317360

Development of a surgical complexity score to predict postoperative morbidity following primary retroperitoneal sarcoma resection: a collaborative study from the Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG).

Fairweather M, Jolissaint JS, Fiore M, Strauss D, Bonvalot S, Ford SJ, van Houdt WJ, Swallow C, Rutkowski P, Gronchi A, Raut CP, TransAtlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group

The British journal of surgery2025

DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znaf029 PMID: 40111264

Improved Risk-Stratification Scheme for Mismatch-Repair Proficient Stage II Colorectal Cancers Using the Digital Pathology Biomarker QuantCRC.

Wu C, Pai RK, Kosiorek H, Banerjee I, Pfeiffer A, Hagen CE, Hartley CP, Graham RP, Sonbol MB, Bekaii-Saab T, Xie H, Sinicrope FA, Patel B, Westerling-Bui T, Shivji S, Conner J, Swallow C, Savage P, Cyr DP, Kirsch R, Pai RK

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2024

DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-23-3211 PMID: 38421684

Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Resectable Gastric Cancer.

Leong T, Smithers BM, Michael M, Haustermans K, Wong R, Gebski V, O'Connell RL, Zalcberg J, Boussioutas A, Findlay M, Willis D, Moore A, Murray WK, Lordick F, O'Callaghan C, Swallow C, Darling G, Miller D, Strickland A, Liberman M, Mineur L, Simes J, Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group, National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, and Canadian Cancer Trials Group

The New England journal of medicine2024

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2405195 PMID: 39282905

Use of Deep Learning to Evaluate Tumor Microenvironmental Features for Prediction of Colon Cancer Recurrence.

Sinicrope FA, Nelson GD, Saberzadeh-Ardestani B, Segovia DI, Graham RP, Wu C, Hagen CE, Shivji S, Savage P, Buchanan DD, Jenkins MA, Phipps AI, Swallow C, LeMarchand L, Gallinger S, Grant RC, Pai RK, Sinicrope SN, Yan D, Shanmugam K, Conner J, Cyr DP, Kirsch R, Banerjee I, Alberts SR, Shi Q, Pai RK

Cancer research communications2024

DOI: 10.1158/2767-9764.crc-24-0031 PMID: 38709069

Retrospective Analysis of Retroperitoneal-Abdominal-Pelvic Ganglioneuromas: An International Study by the Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG).

Noh S, Nessim C, Keung EZ, Roland CL, Strauss D, Sivarajah G, Fiore M, Biasoni D, Cioffi SPB, Mehtsun W, Cananzi FCM, Sicoli F, Quagliuolo V, Chen J, Luo C, Gladdy RA, Swallow C, Johnston W, Ford SJ, Evenden C, Tirotta F, Almond M, Nguyen L, Rutkowski P, Krotewicz M, Pennacchioli E, Cardona K, Gamboa A, Hompes D, Renard M, Kollár A, Ryser CO, Vassos N, Raut CP, Fairweather M, Krakorova DA, Quildrian S, Perhavec A, Nizri E, Farma JM, Greco SH, Vincenzi B, Lopez JAG, Solerdecoll MS, Iwata S, Fukushima S, Kim T, Tolomeo F, Snow H, Howlett-Jansen Y, Tzanis D, Nikulin M, Gronchi A, Sicklick JK, Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group

Annals of surgery2023

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000005625 PMID: 35866666

Clinico-demographic characteristics and outcomes of radiation-induced sarcomas (RIS): a CanSaRCC study.

Ribeiro MF, Peretz Soroka H, Bhura Z, Hirsch I, Wunder J, Ferguson P, Tsoi K, Brar S, Gladdy R, Swallow C, Chung P, Catton C, Wong P, Watson G, Razak ARA, Gupta AA, Shultz D

Therapeutic advances in medical oncology2023

DOI: 10.1177/17588359231198943 PMID: 37781501

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Carol Swallow

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy for primary retroperitoneal well-differentiated liposarcoma: a Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG) propensity score matched analysis.

Factors Associated With Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma in CDH1 Pathogenic Variant Carriers: Report From the Group of Investigators Striving Toward Research in CDH1 Consortium.

Global Variations in Patterns of Care for Retroperitoneal Sarcoma.

Molecular mechanisms of metastatic peritoneal dissemination in gastric adenocarcinoma.

Development of a surgical complexity score to predict postoperative morbidity following primary retroperitoneal sarcoma resection: a collaborative study from the Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG).

Improved Risk-Stratification Scheme for Mismatch-Repair Proficient Stage II Colorectal Cancers Using the Digital Pathology Biomarker QuantCRC.

Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy for Resectable Gastric Cancer.

Use of Deep Learning to Evaluate Tumor Microenvironmental Features for Prediction of Colon Cancer Recurrence.

Retrospective Analysis of Retroperitoneal-Abdominal-Pelvic Ganglioneuromas: An International Study by the Transatlantic Australasian Retroperitoneal Sarcoma Working Group (TARPSWG).

Clinico-demographic characteristics and outcomes of radiation-induced sarcomas (RIS): a CanSaRCC study.

A Precision-Medicine Approach to Management of Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma (RP LPS) Informed by Genomic Analyses

The Role of the Plk4 Pathway in Gastric Cancer Progression

The role of Hedgehog signaling in basal-like breast cancer and the tumour microenvironment

A Randomized Phase III Trial of Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy vs Preoperative Chemotherapy for Resectable Gastric Cancer

Frequent collaborators

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Robin Mcleod

Alyson Mahar

Natalie Coburn

Rebecca Gladdy

John Kim

Anand Govindarajan

Steven Gallinger

Ian Mcgilvray

Amit Oza

Philip Wong

Karineh Kazazian

Gregory Pond

Erin Kennedy

Ian Ball

Kathryn Roth

Ahmad Elnahas

Juan Glinka

Jeffrey Hawel

Sarah Knowles

Jennifer Lam

Bradley Moffat

Neil Parry

Natashia Seemann

Anton Skaro

Shane Smith

Ephraim Tang

Terry Zwiep

Mark Norman Levine

Vickie Baracos

Gregg Nelson

Girish Kulkarni

Kim Tsoi

Julie Hallet