Martin Halle

Dr. Martin Halle


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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22 March 2020 in Cancers
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Kimi Drobin
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Michal Marczyk
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Martin Halle
DDDaniel Danielsson
Daniel Danielsson
APAnna Papiez
Anna Papiez
SHSiamak Haghdoost
Siamak Haghdoost
Nearly half of all cancers are treated with radiotherapy alone or in combination with other treatments, where damage to normal tissues is a limiting factor for the treatment. Radiotherapy-induced adverse health effects, mostly of importance for cancer patients with long-term survival, may appear during or long time after finishing radiotherapy and depend on the patient’s radiosensitivity. Currently, there is no assay available that can reliably predict the individual’s response to radiotherapy. We profiled two study sets from breast (n = 29) and head-and-neck cancer patients (n = 74) that included radiosensitive patients and matched radioresistant controls.. We studied 55 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 33 genes by DNA genotyping and 130 circulating proteins by affinity-based plasma proteomics. In both study sets, we discovered several plasma proteins with the predictive power to find radiosensitive patients (adjusted p < 0.05) and validated the two most predictive proteins (THPO and STIM1) by sandwich immunoassays. By integrating genotypic and proteomic data into an analysis model, it was found that the proteins CHIT1, PDGFB, PNKD, RP2, SERPINC1, SLC4A, STIM1, and THPO, as well as the VEGFA gene variant rs69947, predicted radiosensitivity of our breast cancer (AUC = 0.76) and head-and-neck cancer (AUC = 0.89) patients. In conclusion, circulating proteins and a SNP variant of VEGFA suggest that processes such as vascular growth capacity, immune response, DNA repair and oxidative stress/hypoxia may be involved in an individual’s risk of experiencing radiation-induced toxicity.

20 November 2020
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Kalle Conneryd Lundgren
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Martin Halle

29 December 2020
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Martin Halle
DDDaniel Danielsson
Daniel Danielsson

31 May 2022
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Martin Halle
DDDaniel Danielsson
Daniel Danielsson

27 November 2022
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Martin Halle
DDDaniel Danielsson
Daniel Danielsson

27 November 2022
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KLKalle Conneryd Lundgren
Kalle Conneryd Lundgren
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Martin Halle