Michael Barton

Michael Barton OAM is Professor of Radiation Oncology at UNSW, and Research Director of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CCORE) and the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research at Liverpool Hospital. He has chaired reviews of cancer services throughout Australia and overseas including; the Victorian Cancer Services Framework Report, the Papua New Guinea Cancer Services Report, the Review of Cancer Services in New South Wales in 2004, the feasibility study of radiotherapy in the Northern Territory and a review of cancer services in Western Australia. He chaired the expert advisory committee examining the feasibility of establishing a radiotherapy service in North West Tasmania.

His publications are as follows:
Jaffray DA; Knaul FM; Atun R; Adams C; Barton MB; Baumann M; Lievens Y; Lui TY; Rodin DL; Rosenblatt E; Torode J; Van Dyk J; Vikram B; Gospodarowicz M, 2015, 'Global Task Force on Radiotherapy for Cancer Control.', Lancet Oncology, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1144 - 1146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(15)00285-5.
Atun R; Jaffray DA; Barton MB; Bray F; Baumann M; Vikram B; Hanna TP; Knaul FM; Lievens Y; Lui TY; Milosevic M; O'Sullivan B; Rodin DL; Rosenblatt E; Van Dyk J; Yap ML; Zubizarreta E; Gospodarowicz M, 2015, 'Expanding global access to radiotherapy.', Lancet Oncology, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1153 - 1186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(15)00222-3.
Wong K; Delaney GP; Barton MB, 2015, 'Estimation of the optimal number of radiotherapy fractions for breast cancer: A review of the evidence.', Radiotherapy and Oncology, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 174 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2015.07.015.
Gabriel G; Barton M; Delaney GP, 2015, 'The effect of travel distance on radiotherapy utilization in NSW and ACT.', Radiotherapy and Oncology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2015.07.031.
Thompson SR; Delaney GP; Gabriel GS; Barton MB, 2015, 'Patterns of care study of brachytherapy in New South Wales: malignancies of the uterine corpus.', Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 224 - 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/jcb.2015.52623.
Rosenblatt E; Barton M; Mackillop W; Fidarova E; Cordero L; Yarney J; Lim G; Abad A; Cernea V; Stojanovic-Rundic S; Strojan P; Kobachi L; Quarneti A, 2015, 'Optimal radiotherapy utilisation rate in developing countries: An IAEA study.', Radiotherapy and Oncology, vol. 116, no. 1, pp. 35 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2015.06.012.
Sitas F; Yap S; Egger S; Christian K; Hodgkinson V; Barton M; Banks E; Canfell K; O'Connell DL; Nair-Shalliker V, 2015, 'The Cancer, Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study (CLEAR): Rationale and design of an unmatched "case-spouse control" study of over 10,000 participants in New South Wales, Australia', Cancer Epidemiology: the international journal of cancer epidemiology, detection and prevention, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 414 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2015.03.006.