Publications

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2025
  • Haas Y, Williams OP, Masia J, et al. Microsurgical versus complex physical decongestive therapy for chronic breast cancer-related lymphoedema. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025;2(2):CD016019. Published 2025 Feb 13. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD016019
  • The Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. (2025). New tool informs breast reconstruction decision-making | VCH Research Institute. Vchri.ca. https://www.vchri.ca/stories/2025/01/10/new-tool-informs-breast-reconstruction-decision-making

2024
  • Chen YF, Chawla S, Mousa-Doust D, Nichol A, Ng R, Isaac KV. Machine Learning to Predict the Need for Postmastectomy Radiotherapy after Immediate Breast Reconstruction. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2024 Feb 6;12(2):e5599. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000005599. PMID: 38322813; PMCID: PMC10846766.
  • Cohen D, Verma S, Raman KS, et al. The Sequence and Reconstructive Modality of Breast Cancer Treatments Affects Wait Times to Adjunctive Therapies in Patients Undergoing Mastectomy with Immediate Breast Reconstruction. Plastic Surgery. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/22925503241301723
  • Edgcumbe P, Jiang T, Ho JF, Martin ML, Stein MJ, Isaac KV. Intraoperative Surgical Guidance for DIEP Flap Harvest using Augmented Reality. Plast Reconstr Surg. Published online November 18, 2024. doi:10.1097/PRS.0000000000011863
  • Lee J, Zepeda A, Arbour G, Isaac KV, Ng R, Nichol A. Automated Identification of Breast Cancer Relapse in Computed
    Tomography Reports using Natural Language Processing. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
    https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e135
  • Ramadan R, Tan S, Lowik AJ, Isaac KV. Influence of gender modality on the delivery of breast cancer care from diagnosis to treatment: A systematic review. International Journal of Transgender Health. Published online June 21, 2024:1-16. doi:10.1080/26895269.2024.2351448
  • Vasilyeva E, Hamm J, Nichol A, Isaac KV, Bazzarelli A, Brown C, Lohrisch C, McKevitt E. Breast-Conserving Therapy is Associated with Improved Survival Without an Increased Risk of Locoregional Recurrence Compared with Mastectomy in Both Clinically Node-Positive and Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients. Ann Surg Oncol. 2023 Oct;30(11):6413-6424. doi: 10.1245/s10434-023-13784-x. Epub 2023 Jun 26. PMID: 37358683.
  • Wells, H. J., Yang, J. C. C., Edelstein-Keshet, L., & Isaac, K. V. (2024). Implant Texture and Capsular Contracture: A Review of Cellular and Molecular Pathways. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 12(5), e5802. https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000005802

2023
  • Raman KS, Ninomiya MM, Bovill ES, et al. Temporal Sequencing of Multimodal Treatment in Immediate Breast Reconstruction and Implications  for Wait Times: A Regional Canadian  Cross-Sectional Study. Plastic Surgery. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/22925503231152261
  • Dyck C, Isaac KV, Edelstein-Keshet L. Models for Implant-Induced Capsular Contracture Post Breast Cancer Surgery. Bull Math Biol. 2023 Dec 13;86(1):7. doi: 10.1007/s11538-023-01236-2
  • Ninomiya MM, Hiemstra J, Nicholson E, Isaac KV. Methods of Recruitment for Surgical and Perioperative Randomized Controlled Trials: A Rapid Review. World J Surg. 2023 Nov;47(11):2659-2667. doi: 10.1007/s00268-023-07124-z. Epub 2023 Aug 17. PMID: 37589794.

2022
  • Mankowski P, Carr M, Cherukupalli A, Bovill E, Lennox P, Brown MH, Carr N. The Macrotextured Implant Recall: Breast Implant-Associated-Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma Risk Aversion in Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Practices. Aesthet Surg J. 2022 Dec 14;42(12):1408-1413. doi: 10.1093/asj/sjac158. PMID: 35709374.
  • Rogowsky LC, Illmann C., Macadam SA, Lennox PA, Bovill ES, Doherty C, Isaac, KV. Chronic pain in breast cancer patients post mastectomy with alloplastic reconstruction: A scoping review. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2022;31(4), e13631. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13631
  • Bitoiu B, Schlagintweit S, Zhang Z, Bovill E, Isaac K, Macadam S. Conversion from Alloplastic to Autologous Breast Reconstruction: What Are the Inciting Factors? Plastic Surgery. 2022;0(0). doi:10.1177/22925503221107214.
  • Chen Y, Hao L, Zou V, Hollander Z, Ng RT, Isaac KV. Automated Medical Chart Review for Breast Cancer: A Novel Natural Language Processing Software System. BMC Med Res Methodol, 2022; 22(1):136. doi:10.1186/s12874-022-01583-z.
  • Ha R, Nguyen A, Illmann C, Isaac KV. Influence of Health Literacy on Treatment Adherence in Breast Cancer Care: A Scoping Review: HL and Treatment Adherence in Breast Cancer. Arch Breast Cancer, 2022;9(2):133-4. doi:10.32768/abc.202292133-143.
  • Isaac KV, Buchel EW. Truncal-based perforator flaps for autologous breast reconstruction: A review of 975 flaps and their clinical application. Microsurgery. 2022 May;42(4):341-351. doi:10.1002/micr.30869.
  • Isaac KV, Buchel EW, Brackstone MM, Doherty C, Lipa JE, Zhong T, Semple JL, Brown MH, Snell L, Mahoney MH, Vorstenbosch J, Wheelock M, Macadam SA, Coroneos CJ, Tremblay-Champagne M, Voineskos SH, Zhang J, Somogyi R, Temple-Oberle C, Ross D. Canadian Expert Opinion on Breast Reconstruction Access (CEO-BRA): Strategies to optimize patient-centered care during COVID-19 pandemic. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, 2022;10:2. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000004204.
  • Isaac KV, Elzinga K, Buchel EW. The Best of Chest Wall Reconstruction: Principles and Clinical Application for Complex Oncologic and Sternal Defects. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2022 Mar 1;149(3):547e-562e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000008882.
  • Hsiang Shawn Yuan P, Xu R, Maclean L, Muqaimi NA, Elmi M, Isaac KV. A call to bridge the divide in breast reconstruction research: A systematic review. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2022;75(1):77-84. doi:10.1016/j.bjps.2021.06.008

2021
  • Illmann C, Doherty C, Wheelock M, Vorstenboch J, Lipa JE, Zhong T, Isaac KV. The impact on the COVID-19 Pandemic on Breast Reconstruction: A Canadian Perspective. Plastic Surgery, 2021;29(4):287-293. doi:10.1177/22925503211030017.
  • Yuan PH, Xu R, Maclean L, Al Muqaimi N, Elmi M, Isaac KV. A Call to Bridge the Divide in Breast Reconstruction Research: A Systematic Review. J Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery 2021;75(1):777-784. doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2021.06.008.
  • Bovill ES, Doherty C, Warburton R, Macadam SA, Van Laeken N, Lennox PA, Isaac KV. Management of patients requiring reconstructive breast surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: recommendations from the BC Regional Breast Reconstruction Network. Can J Surg. 2021 Jul 23;64(4): E377-E380. doi: 10.1503/cjs.005221.
  • Chen Y, Hao L, Zou V, Hollander Z, Ng RT, Isaac KV. Automated Medical Chart Review for Breast Cancer: A Novel Natural Language Processing Software System medRxiv 2021.05.04.21256134. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.04.21256134