Nicholas P. West

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Nicholas P. West is a scholar working on Oncology, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas P. West has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Oncology, 69 papers in Surgery and 27 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Nicholas P. West's work include Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments (93 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (54 papers) and Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas (44 papers). Nicholas P. West is often cited by papers focused on Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments (93 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (54 papers) and Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas (44 papers). Nicholas P. West collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Nicholas P. West's co-authors include Philip Quirke, P J Finan, Klaus Weber, Aristotelis Perrakis, David Jayne, Claes Anderin, Werner Hohenberger, Gina Brown, Eva Morris and Mark Gudgeon and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas P. West

135 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Effect of Robotic-Assisted vs Conventional Laparoscopic Surgery on Risk of Conversion to Open Laparotomy Among Patients Undergoing Resection for Rectal Cancer

2017 858 citations David Jayne, Alessio Pigazzi et al. profile →
Complete Mesocolic Excision With Central Vascular Ligation Produces an Oncologically Superior Specimen Compared With Standard Surgery for Carcinoma of the Colon

2009 513 citations Nicholas P. West, P J Finan et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
Preoperative Chemotherapy for Operable Colon Cancer: Mature Results of an International Randomized Controlled Trial

2023 181 citations Dion Morton, Michel Seymour et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →

Peers

Nicholas P. West

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Maria Antonietta Gambacorta Italy

Dae Yong Kim South Korea

Woo Yong Lee South Korea

James E. East United Kingdom

Priya Bhosale United States

Marc J. Gollub United States

Donna M. Gress United States

A.G. Morganti Italy

Rainer Fietkau Germany

Mark J. Truty United States

Maria Antonietta Gambacorta Italy

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1.2k ×0.8

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1.8k ×3.0

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279 ×0.7

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Dexter, Simon, Heike I. Grabsch, Samir Mehta, et al.. (2025). The prognostic value of circumferential resection margin (CRM) definition and location in esophageal cancer: A 12-year cohort study. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 51(8). 110138–110138.

Elliott, Faye, Kelly Handley, Laura Magill, et al.. (2025). CT staging performance in an international trial of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced colon cancer. British Journal of Radiology. 98(1176). 2175–2183.

Grosser, Bianca, Wolfram Mueller, Nicholas P. West, et al.. (2024). Stroma AReactive Invasion Front Areas (SARIFA): a novel histopathologic biomarker in colorectal cancer patients and its association with the luminal tumour proportion. Translational Oncology. 44. 101913–101913. 10 indexed citations

Sekhar, Hema, Matthew D. Dyer, Muhammad Imtiaz Khan, et al.. (2024). SF‐CORNER (splenic flexure colorectal cancer): an international survey of operative approaches and outcomes for cancers of the splenic flexure. Colorectal Disease. 26(4). 660–668.

Laleh, Narmin Ghaffari, Nicholas P. West, Katherine Hewitt, et al.. (2024). Automated curation of large‐scale cancer histopathology image datasets using deep learning. Histopathology. 84(7). 1139–1153. 3 indexed citations

Carrero, Zunamys I., Chiara Maria Lavinia Loeffler, Marko van Treeck, et al.. (2024). Deep learning for dual detection of microsatellite instability and POLE mutations in colorectal cancer histopathology. npj Precision Oncology. 8(1). 115–115. 10 indexed citations

Morton, Dion, Michel Seymour, Laura Magill, et al.. (2023). Preoperative Chemotherapy for Operable Colon Cancer: Mature Results of an International Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(8). 1541–1552. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

Scott, Nigel, Alison Cairns, Olorunda Rotimi, et al.. (2023). Resection margin involvement after endoscopic excision of malignant colorectal polyps: definition of margin involvement and its impact upon tumour recurrence. Histopathology. 83(1). 80–90. 4 indexed citations

West, Nicholas P., et al.. (2023). Macroscopic Evaluation of Colon Cancer Resection Specimens. Cancers. 15(16). 4116–4116. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, Christopher J.M., Rebecca Fish, Nicholas P. West, et al.. (2022). Incorporating neoadjuvant chemotherapy into locally advanced colon cancer treatment pathways: Real‐life experience of implementing FOxTROT. Colorectal Disease. 25(3). 352–356. 9 indexed citations

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West, Nicholas P., Ümit Karabiyik, Marcus Rogers, et al.. (2022). Investigating Wearable Fitness Applications: Data Privacy and Digital Forensics Analysis on Android. Applied Sciences. 12(19). 9747–9747. 11 indexed citations

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Lord, Amy, Gina Brown, Muti Abulafi, et al.. (2021). Histopathological diagnosis of tumour deposits in colorectal cancer: a Delphi consensus study. Histopathology. 79(2). 168–175. 34 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Nelleke P.M., Amy Lord, Monica Terlizzo, et al.. (2021). Interobserver variation in the classification of tumor deposits in rectal cancer—is the use of histopathological characteristics the way to go?. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 479(6). 1111–1118. 19 indexed citations

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Scott, Nigel, Nicholas P. West, Alison Cairns, & Olorunda Rotimi. (2020). Is medullary carcinoma of the colon underdiagnosed? An audit of poorly differentiated colorectal carcinomas in a large national health service teaching hospital. Histopathology. 78(7). 963–969. 15 indexed citations

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Shiozawa, Manabu, Hideki Ueno, Akio Shiomi, et al.. (2020). Study protocol for an International Prospective Observational Cohort Study for Optimal Bowel Resection Extent and Central Radicality for Colon Cancer (T-REX study). Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. 51(1). 145–155. 11 indexed citations

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Jayne, David, Alessio Pigazzi, Helen Marshall, et al.. (2019). Robotic-assisted surgery compared with laparoscopic resection surgery for rectal cancer: the ROLARR RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(10). 1–140. 35 indexed citations

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D’Souza, Nigel, Amy Lord, Andrew Shaw, et al.. (2019). Ex vivo specimen MRI and pathology confirm a rectosigmoid mesenteric waist at the junction of the mesorectum and mesocolon. Colorectal Disease. 22(2). 212–218. 8 indexed citations

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West, Nicholas P., et al.. (2015). Histopathology: improving outcomes in bowel cancer. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 76(5). C69–C73. 1 indexed citations

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Quirke, Philip, Nicholas P. West, & Irıs D. Nagtegaal. (2014). EURECCA consensus conference highlights about colorectal cancer clinical management: the pathologists expert review. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 464(2). 129–134. 12 indexed citations

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West, Nicholas P., P J Finan, Claes Anderin, et al.. (2008). Evidence of the Oncologic Superiority of Cylindrical Abdominoperineal Excision for Low Rectal Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26(21). 3517–3522. 266 indexed citations

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