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2026

PATTERNS AND PREDICTORS OF DYING AT HOME FOR ADULTS WITH PRIMARY MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMOURS: A COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL COHORT ANALYSIS

September 2026

Le Calvez K, Droney J, Mauricaite R, Oberg I, Bulbeck H, Williams M

VARIATION IN RATES OF POST-OPERATIVE ONCOLOGICAL TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA IN ENGLAND: A COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-YEAR NATIONAL COHORT STUDY FROM THE GLIOCOVA PROJECT

May 2026

Mauricaite R, Le Calvez K, Robinson SD, Camp S, Brodbelt A, Booth TC, Williams M

INVESTIGATING DIGITAL OUTCOMES (INDIGO) A RANDOMISED OBSERVATIONAL DIGITAL TRIAL: RESULTS OF PILOT STUDY (PREPRINT)

April 20, 2026

Le Calvez K, Williams MH, Gregory JJ, Mauricaite R, Mickiewicz G, Gath J, Wheatstone P, Pakzad-Shahabi L, Ashley L, Chinembiri O, Cunliffe A, Davenport G, Jamieson Gilmore K, Langel K, Miglio C, Padmasri D, Ruta D, Williams H

ACCESS TO STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY CENTRES ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM—AN INVESTIGATION OF TRAVEL TIME

February 2026

Robinson SD, Kingdon S, Williams M

OLIGOCLONAL METABOLIC PHENOTYPES OF INTRACRANIAL METASTATIC DISEASE DETERMINED BY UNSUPERVISED TEMPORAL CLUSTERING OF FPIA PET DATA

2026

Inglese M, Islam S, McLeavy L, Mauri F, Barwick TM, Waldman AD, O'Neill K, Williams M, Aboagye EO, Toschi N

UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE IN SYMPTOMS AND OUTCOMES BETWEEN GLIOBLASTOMA PATIENTS DIAGNOSED BASED ON HISTOLOGICAL OR MOLECULAR CRITERIA: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS FROM THE HISTO-MOL GBM COLLABORATIVE

January 2026

Robinson SD, Kingdon S, Williams ST, Hill CS, Williams M, Chandy E, Critchley G

2025

ARGTUMOUR: INTEGRATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AND COMPUTATIONAL ARGUMENTATION TO DISCUSS TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA

September 2, 2025

Dejl A, Ayoobi H, Cherrington C, Gardner D, Toni F, Pakzad-Shahabi L, Williams M

BEAT-BREAST: IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS WITH BRAIN METASTASES A NON-RANDOMISED MULTI-CENTRE PHASE 2 FEASIBILITY TRIAL IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY BREAST CANCER WITH BRAIN METASTASES WHO ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY

September 2025

Pakzad-Shahabi L, Ho A, Thompson S, Merritt G, Merritt V, Gleason K, Dodwell D, Valiente M, Shaw J, Grosu A-L, Dixon L, Smith J, Vinayan A, Williams M

EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RADIOTHERAPY CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME AND GAIT ACTIVITY IN HIGH GRADE GLIOMA

September 2025

Dadhania S, Williams M

PELVIC STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE BODY RADIOTHERAPY (SABR) REIRRADIATION: UK SABR CONSORTIUM GUIDANCE FOR USE IN ROUTINE CLINICAL CARE

September 2025

Moreno-Olmedo E, Owczarczyk K, Chadwick E, Dickinson P, Duffton A, Jones B, Good JS, McDonald F, Murray LJ, Rackley T, Robinson M, Sinclair J, Strawson-Smith T, Tree A, Tsang YM, Zarkar A, Dean C, Diez P, Williams M, Andratschke N, Muirhead R

USING COMPUTATIONAL ARGUMENTATION TO INTEGRATE ACTIVITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE DATA TO PREDICT DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA

September 1, 2025

Gould A, Paulino-Passos G, Dadhania S, Toni F, Williams M

ADULT GLIOBLASTOMA IN ENGLAND: INCIDENCE, TREATMENT, AND OUTCOMES WITH NOVEL POPULATION-BASED STRATA

August 1, 2025

Le Calvez K, Mauricaite R, Treasure P, Booth TC, Price SJ, Brodbelt A, Gregory JJ, Dadhania S, Pakzad-Shahabi L, Dumba M, Oberg I, Vernon S, Basharat J, Williams M

HIDDEN CONFLICTS IN NEURAL NETWORKS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR EXPLAINABILITY

June 23, 2025

Dejl A, Zhang D, Ayoobi H, Williams M, Toni F

REMOTE CONTROL OF GOLD–IRON NANOWIRES USING LOW-FREQUENCY 1 HZ MAGNETO-MECHANICAL THERAPY AND CESIUM 137 0.662 MEV RADIOTHERAPY FOR TREATMENT OF GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME

June 11, 2025

Taylor J, Greaves G, Phillips CC, Williams M, Ryan MP, Porter AE

GENOTYPE CHARACTERIZATION IN PRIMARY BRAIN GLIOMAS VIA UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING OF DYNAMIC PET IMAGING OF SHORT-CHAIN FATTY ACID METABOLISM

April 2025

Inglese M, Boccato T, Ferrante M, Islam S, Williams M, Waldman AD, O'Neill K, Aboagye EO, Toschi N

A HYBRID FLUOROPIVALATE PET-MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI TO DETECT AND CHARACTERISE BRAIN TUMOUR METASTASES BASED ON A PERMISSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORT

February 7, 2025

Islam S, Inglese M, Aravind P, Barwick T, Mauri F, McLeavy L, Arstad E, Wang J, Puccio I, Hung L, Lu H, O'Neill K, Waldman AD, Williams M, Aboagye E

2024

DEVELOPING A FUNCTIONAL PRECISION MEDICINE ASSAY TO PREDICT PATHOLOGICAL COMPLETE RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER: INTERIM RESULTS FROM THE PEAR-TNBC TRIAL

October 27, 2024

Hall P, Williams M, Peerani E, Tham E, Iori F, de Fraine GRTB, Loughrey K, Kaffa AD, Richardson TDL, Liberal C, Velentza-Almpani A, Wiskerke DA, Sangkolah F, Crawley AM, Kearney J, Bah NK, Tasoulis MK, Kirwan CC, Cleator S, Chan S, Ranatunga D

SET UP AND RECRUITMENT TO A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF MEDICINAL CANNABINOIDS IN RECURRENT GLIOBLASTOMA - THE ARISTOCRAT TRIAL

October 17, 2024

Savage J, Mant R, Kirkham A, Buckle P, Banks E, Meade S, Boele F, Williams M, Collinson F, Billingham C, Short SC

GLIOBLASTOMA IN THE UK POST WHO CNS 5: INITIAL FINDINGS FROM THE HISTO-MOL GBM COLLABORATIVE

October 15, 2024

Robinson S, Ryan K, Black L, Forner S, Hatton NL, Hatton R, Aktar N, Lathangue H, Conkey D, Durage P, Macarthur R, Teoh M, Choudhury M, Bowman M, Cavalli C, de Luna P, Christodoulou P, Hill T, Williams A, Golten J, Aghadiuno T, Yogalingam K, Lau S, Kahan J, Dixit S, Guglani S, Williams M, Lewis R, Moleron R, Iqbal N, Wadd N, Lord H, Bhat P, Giamas G, Lorimer C, Chandy E, Critchley G

PREFERENCE-BASED ABSTRACT ARGUMENTATION FOR CASE-BASED REASONING

August 1, 2024

Gould A, Paulino Passos G, Dadhania S, Williams M, Toni F

GLIOBLASTOMA AND RADIOTHERAPY: A MULTICENTER AI STUDY FOR SURVIVAL PREDICTIONS FROM MRI (GRASP STUDY)

June 3, 2024

Chelliah A, Wood DA, Canas LS, Shuaib H, Currie S, Fatania K, Frood R, Rowland-Hill C, Thust S, Wastling SJ, Tenant S, McBain C, Foweraker K, Williams M, Wang Q, Roman A, Dragos C, MacDonald M, Lau YH, Linares CA, Bassiouny A, Luis A, Young T, Brock J, Chandy E, Beaumont E, Lam T-C, Welsh L, Lewis J, Mathew R, Kerfoot E, Brown R, Beasley D, Glendenning J, Brazil L, Swampillai A, Ashkan K, Ourselin S, Modat M, Booth TC

2023

TARGETED ACTIVATION PENALTIES HELP CNNS IGNORE SPURIOUS SIGNALS

December 17, 2023

Dekai Zhang, Matthew Williams, Francesca Toni

TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER-MEASURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOURS AMONG PEOPLE WITH HIGH GRADE GLIOMA: THE BRAINWEAR STUDY

May 24, 2023

Seema Dadhania, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi, Sanjay Mistry, Matt Williams

QUALITY OF LIFE IN CAREGIVERS OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMOURS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND THEMATIC ANALYSIS

April 24, 2023

James Tallant, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi, Sylvie D. Lambert, Matthew Williams, Mary Wells

2022

FEDERATED LEARNING ENABLES BIG DATA FOR RARE CANCER BOUNDARY DETECTION

December 5, 2022

A list of authors and their affiliations appears at the end of the paper

A FEDERATED COX MODEL WITH NON-PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS

November 29, 2022

Kai Zhang, Francesca Toni, Matt Williams

FUTURE-GB: FUNCTIONAL AND ULTRASOUND-GUIDED RESECTION OF GLIOBLASTOMA – A TWO-STAGE RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL 

November 15, 2022

Puneet Plaha, Sophie Camp, Jonathan Cook, Peter McCulloch, Natalie Voets, Ruichong Ma, Martin J B Taphoorn, Linda Dirven, Matthew Grech-Sollars, Colin Watts, Helen Bulbeck, Michael D Jenkinson, Matthew Williams, Adrian Lim, Luke Dixon, Stephen John Price, Keyoumars Ashkan, Vasileios Apostolopoulos, Vicki S Barber, Amy Taylor, FUTURE-GB collaborators, Dipankar Nandi

LAUNCH OF THE UK SABR CONSORTIUM PELVIC STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE RADIOTHERAPY RE-IRRADIATION GUIDELINES AND NATIONAL AUDIT

October 6, 2022

R. Muirhead, C. Dean, P. Díez, M. Williams, F. McDonald

IMAGING IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA: A NATIONAL COHORT STUDY

June 11, 2022

Maureen Dumba, Anna Fry, Jon Shelton, Thomas C Booth, Brynmor Jones, Haris Shuaib, Matt Williams

IDENTIFYING TOPICS AND EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF LITERATURE ON BRAIN METASTASES USING LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION

June 02, 2022

Jiarong Chen, Matt Williams, Yanming Huan, Shijing Si

IMPROVING ON WHOLE-BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH LARGE BRAIN METASTASES: A PLANNING STUDY TO SUPPORT THE AROMA CLINICAL TRIAL

February 17, 2022

Jiarong Chen, Georges Sinclair, Hamoun Rozati, Laurence Hill, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi, James Wang, Kerlann Le Calvez, Ian Paddick, Matt Williams

SAFE AND ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RADIOTHERAPY – LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE AVIATION INDUSTRY

January 17, 2022

R. Hallows, L. Glazier, M.S. Katz, M. Aznar, M. Williams

2021

DEEP LEARNING-BASED QUANTIFICATION OF TEMPORALIS MUSCLE HAS PROGNOSTIC VALUE IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA

November 30, 2021

Ella Mi, Radvile Mauricaite, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi, Jiarong Chen, Andrew Ho, Matt Williams

ESTIMATING POPULATION-BASED INCIDENCE OF BRAIN METASTASES – A COMPREHENSIVE INCIDENT COHORT STUDY

October 15, 2021

Hamish Sinclair, Kerlann Le Calvez, Jiarong Chen, Lillie Pakzad-Shahabi, Luke Dixon, Waleed Mohammed, Waqar Saleem, Matthew Williams

GLIOCOVA: TREATMENT AND HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS FOR PATIENTS WITH GBM IN ENGLAND

October 15, 2021

Radvile Mauricaite, Kerlann Le Calvez, Matthew Williams

BRAINAPP: USING NEAR-PATIENT SENSING THROUGH A MOBILE APP AND MACHINE LEARNING IN BRAIN TUMOUR PATIENTS

October 15, 2021

Nur Aizaan Anwar, Matthew Williams

OS10.5.A BRAINWEAR: LONGITUDINAL, OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN 42 HGG PATIENTS

September 09, 2021

S Dadhania, L Pakzad-Shahabi, S Mistry, K Le Calvez, W Saleem, W Mohammed, M Williams

OS14.6.A GLIOCOVA: DEFINING PATIENT SAFETY EVENTS FOR BRAIN TUMOUR PATIENTS UNDERGOING NEUROSURGERY

September 09, 2021

R Mauricaite, K Le Calvez, A Brodbelt, A Bottle, M Williams

P11.03 SLEEP ANALYSIS OF ACCELEROMETER DATA FROM HIGH GRADE GLIOMA PATIENTS IN THE BRAINWEAR STUDY

September 09, 2021

M George, S Dadhania, M Williams

P14.18 PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT TO DEFINE PATIENT-CENTRED OUTCOMES FROM NATIONAL CANCER DATASETS

September 09, 2021

L Pakzad-Shahabi, C Cherrington, N Brassil, P Even, D Gardner, W Fulcher, K Le Calvez, R Mauricaite, M Williams

P14.27 EXPLORING END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE GLIOCOVA NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOUR PATIENT COHORT

September 09, 2021

R Mauricaite, K Le Calvez, J Droney, M Caldano, M Alam, M Williams

A FULLY AUTOMATED DEEP LEARNING PIPELINE TO ASSESS MUSCLE MASS IN BRAIN TUMOR PATIENTS

July 12, 2021

R. Mauricaite, E. Mi, J. Chen, A. Ho, L. Pakzad-Shahabi, M. Williams

EXPLORING DEFINITIONS OF RADIOLOGICAL SARCOPENIA IN CANCER: A PROTOCOL FOR A SCOPING REVIEW

July 02, 2021

Wang JW, Williams M

FAILING TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN EVIDENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE IN RADICAL BLADDER CANCER RADIOTHERAPY: A CRITICAL UNMET NEED

January 22, 2021

M. Varughese, S. Treece, K. Drinkwater, M. Williams

2020

ESTIMATING THE RISK OF DEATH FROM COVID-19 IN ADULT CANCER PATIENTS

November 17, 2020

M. Williams, E. Mi, K. Le Calvez, J. Chen, L. Pakzad-Shahabi, S. Dadhania, J. Wang, A. Ho, S. Rabinowicz

PRIORITISATION BY FIT TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF DELAYS IN THE 2-WEEK WAIT COLORECTAL CANCER REFERRAL PATHWAY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A UK MODELLING STUDY

August 27, 2020

Chey Loveday, Amit Sud, Michael E Jones, John Broggio, Stephen Scott, Firza Gronthound, Beth Torr, Alice Garrett, David L Nicol, Shaman Jhanji, Stephen A Boyce, Matthew Williams, Claire Barry, Elio Riboli, Emma Kipps, Ethna McFerran, David C Muller, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Mark Lawler, Muti Abulafi, Richard S Houlston, Clare Turnbull,

EFFECT OF DELAYS IN THE 2-WEEK-WAIT CANCER REFERRAL PATHWAY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON CANCER SURVIVAL IN THE UK: A MODELLING STUDY

July 20, 2020

Amit Sud, Bethany Torr, Michael E Jones, John Broggio, Stephen Scott, Chey Loveday, Alice Garrett, Firza Gronthoud, David L Nicol, Shaman Jhanji, Stephen A Boyce, Matthew Williams, Elio Riboli, David C Muller, Emma Kipps, James Larkin, Neal Navani, Charles Swanton, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Ethna McFerran, Mark Lawler, Richard Houlston, Clare Turnbull

COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE IMPACT ON OUTCOMES FROM CANCER SURGERY OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

May 19, 2020

A Sud, M E Jones, J Broggio, C Loveday, B Torr, A Garrett, D L Nicol, S Jhanji, S A Boyce, F Gronthoud, P Ward, J M Handy, N Yousaf, J Larkin, Y-E Suh, S Scott, P D P Pharoah, C Swanton, C Abbosh, M Williams, G Lyratzopoulos, R Houlston, C Turnbull

2019

THE TRIGGER PROJECT: INTRODUCING ELECTRONIC PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES INTO RADIOTHERAPY SERVICES

November, 2019

Amy Sharkey, Archie MacNair, Kerlann Le Calvez, Robert Walters, Lesley Smith, David Bloomfield, Annmarie Nelson, John Staffurth, Matthew Williams, Jane Maher

EARLY EFFECTS OF SURGERY AND RADIOTHERAPY ON ACTIVITY LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMOURS: PRELIMINARY DATA FROM THE BRAINWEAR TRIAL

October 12, 2019

Seema Dadhania, James Wei Wang, Boyu Yu, Waqar Saleem, Catherine Blake, Lillie Shahabi, Matthew Williams

FACTORS AFFECTING TREATMENT STRATEGY, COMPLETION OF PLANNED TREATMENT AND SURVIVAL IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA

October 12, 2019

Aimee Goel, Lillie Shahabi, Ganesalingam Narenthiran, Kevin O’Neill, David Peterson, Dipankar Nandi, Matthew Williams, Waqar Saleem, Alison Falconer, Sophie Camp

USING SURGICAL AND ONCOLOGY WORKLOAD TO PLAN BRAIN TUMOUR TRIAL RECRUITMENT IN ENGLAND

October 12, 2019

Kerlann Le Calvez, Peter Treasure, Matt Williams

FRACTIONATION AND EARLY MORTALITY IN PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY: INSIGHTS FROM THE NATIONAL RADIOTHERAPY DATASET

October 01, 2019

Katie Spencer, Kerlann Le Calvez, Peter Hall, Galina Velikova, Ann Henry, Eva Morris, Matt Williams

THE TRIGGER PROJECT: THE CHALLENGE OF INTRODUCING ELECTRONIC PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME MEASURES INTO A RADIOTHERAPY SERVICE

September 28, 2019

Macnair A, Sharkey A, Le Calvez K, Walters R, Smith L, Nelson A, Staffurth J, Williams M, Bloomfield D, Maher J

THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH SURGICALLY TREATED MENINGIOMA IN ENGLAND: 1999–2013. A CANCER REGISTRY DATA ANALYSIS

September 17, 2019

Brodbelt AR, Barclay ME, Greenberg D, Williams M, Jenkinson MD, Karabatsou K

INTEGRATED SYSTEMS-GENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL A NETWORK TARGET FOR DELAYING GLIOMA PROGRESSION

August 17, 2019

Laaniste L, Srivastava PK, Stylianou J, Syed N, Cases-Cunillera S, Shkura K, Zeng Q, Rackham OJL, Langley SR, Delahaye-Duriez A, O'Neill K, Williams M, Becker A, Roncaroli F, Petretto E, Johnson MR

ASSESSING K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS ALGORITHM FOR SIMPLE, INTERPRETABLE TIME-TO-EVENT SURVIVAL PREDICTIONS OVER A RANGE OF SIMULATED DATASETS

August 05, 2019

P. Kroupa, C. Morton, K. Le Calvez, M. Williams

MACHINE LEARNING AND GLIOMA IMAGING BIOMARKERS

July 29, 2019

T.C. Booth, M. Williams, A. Luis, J. Cardoso, K. Ashkan, H. Shuaib

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING: SHOULD MEDICAL STUDENTS BE LEARNING IT?

March 22, 2019

Morton CE, Smith SF, Lwin T, George M, Williams M

2018

FIRST‐LINE TREATMENTS FOR PEOPLE WITH SINGLE OR MULTIPLE BRAIN METASTASES

December 27, 2018

Williams M, Chen J, Hart MG, Hunter A, Hawkins N, Si S, Toni F

A STUDY OF THE FOCAL ADHESION KINASE INHIBITOR GSK2256098 IN PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT GLIOBLASTOMA WITH EVALUATION OF TUMOR PENETRATION OF [11C]GSK2256098

May 17, 2018

Brown NF, Williams M, Arkenau HT, Fleming RA, Tolson J, Yan L, Zhang J, Singh R, Auger KR, Lenox L, Cox D, Lewis Y, Plisson C, Searle G, Saleem A, Blagden S, Mulholland P

A METHODOLOGY TO EXTRACT OUTCOMES FROM ROUTINE HEALTHCARE DATA FOR PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

April 11, 2018

Swee-Ling Wong, Kate Ricketts, Gary Royle, Matt Williams, Ruheena Mendes

2017

POSTPROGRESSION SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA TREATED WITH CONCURRENT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY: A ROUTINE CARE COHORT STUDY

October 9, 2017

Paulina Majewska, Stefanos Ioannidis, Muhammad Hasan Raza, Nikhil Tanna, Helen Bulbeck, Mathew Williams

ESTIMATING PROGRESSION-FREE SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA USING ROUTINELY COLLECTED DATA

September 27, 2017

Kelly C, Majewska P, Ioannidis S, Raza MH, Williams M

2016

SURGEON VOLUME AND 30 DAY MORTALITY FOR BRAIN TUMOURS IN ENGLAND

October 20, 2016

Matt Williams, Peter Treasure, David Greenberg, Andrew Brodbelt, Peter Collins

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