Vicky Goh is a professor, chair of clinical cancer imaging, and head of cancer imaging department at the

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. She joined King's College London in 2011. She is also a consultant

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at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Biography

Goh studied at

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, obtained a medical degree from

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. She further trained at General Medicine and Radiology in London (UK) and University Health Network Hospitals in

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(

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). She has also worked as a Consultant Oncological Radiologist at

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in the area of

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. She served as a president of the European Society of Oncologic Imaging in the past. She is now a chair of the academic committee at the

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, and steering committee member of the European School of Radiology. She is interested in studying tumour heterogeneity, micro-environment, biomarker development in gastrointestinal, lung and renal cancers in humans using multi-modality functional imaging. According to

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, she has published 209 scientific documents with 7233

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s, and an

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of 45. She has been mentioned on public online-blogs on several occasions for her cancer imaging work. Her

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profile can be found here. Prof Goh is a deputy editor for the Radiology journal.

Books edited

* Radiotherapy in Practice - Imaging: edited by Peter J Hoskin; Vicky Goh. * Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: Oncological Imaging (sixth edition): edited by Victoria Goh, Andy Adam. * MRI of the Gastrointestinal Tract: edited by Jaap Stoker (listed as a contributor).

Chapters edited

* Multislice CT: edited by Konstantin Nikolaou, Fabian Bamberg, Andrea Laghi, Geoffrey D. Rubin. * Diffusion Weighted Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract: edited by Sofia Gourtsoyianni, Nikolaos Papanikolaou. * PET/MRI in Oncology: Current Clinical Applications. edited by Andrei Iagaru, Thomas Hope, Patrick Veit-Haibach. * Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis: Colorectal Cancer edited by M. A. Hayat.

Selected publications

She has authored numerous publications. However, the following publications have more than 300 citations: * 514 citations: Assessment of tumor heterogeneity: an emerging imaging tool for clinical practice? * 407 citations: Imaging biomarker roadmap for cancer studies. * 361 citations: Critical research gaps and translational priorities for the successful prevention and treatment of breast cancer. * 353 citations: Quantifying tumour heterogeneity in ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT imaging by texture analysis. * 331 citations: Anal cancer: ESMO-ESSO-ESTRO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. * 326 citations: Are pretreatment 18F-FDG PET tumor textural features in non–small cell lung cancer associated with response and survival after chemoradiotherapy? * 306 citations: Assessment of primary colorectal cancer heterogeneity by using whole-tumor texture analysis: contrast-enhanced CT texture as a biomarker of 5-year survival. * 304 citations: Non–small cell lung cancer: histopathologic correlates for texture parameters at CT.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goh, Vicky Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Women radiologists 21st-century British women medical doctors English women medical doctors Cancer researchers Women oncologists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of King's College London People educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College