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Professor Omgo Nieweg
Clinical Professor. Surgery, Central Clinical School
Publications
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Book Chapters
- Uren, R., Nieweg, O., Thompson, J. (2020). Lymphoscintigraphy in Patients with Melanoma. In Not known (Eds.), Cutaneous Melanoma, Sixth Edition, (pp. 205-237). TBC. [More Information]
- Uren, R., Nieweg, O., Thompson, J. (2019). Lymphoscintigraphy in Patients with Melanoma. In Not known (Eds.), Cutaneous Melanoma, Sixth Edition, (pp. 1-33). TBC. [More Information]
- de Vries, J., Nieweg, O., Uren, R. (2004). Position Emission Tomography. In John F Thompson, Donald L Morton, Bin BR Kroon (Eds.), Textbook of Melanoma, (pp. 477-481). London: Martin Dunitz.
Journals
- Gjorup, C., Woodford, R., Li, I., Carlino, M., Ch'ng, S., Chung, D., Hsiao, E., Lo, S., London, K., Long, G., Menzies, A., Nieweg, O., Pennington, T., Rtshiladze, M., Saw, R., Scolyer, R., Shannon, K., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Varey, A., van Akkooi, A. (2024). ASO Visual Abstract: Role of Concurrent Ultrasound Surveillance of Sentinel Node‑Positive Node Fields in Melanoma Patients Having Routine Cross‑Sectional Imaging. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 31(3), 1882-1883. [More Information]
- Menzies, A., Emmett, L., Kapoor, R., Rawson, R., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Spillane, A., Rizos, H., Scolyer, R., Long, G., Lo, S., Saw, R., Gonzalez, M., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Shannon, K., Ferguson, P., et al (2024). Five-year analysis of neoadjuvant dabrafenib and trametinib for stage III melanoma. Annals of Oncology. [More Information]
- Varey, A., Li, I., El Sharouni, M., Simon, J., Dedeilia, A., Ch'ng, S., Saw, R., Spillane, A., Shannon, K., Pennington, T., Rtshiladze, M., Stretch, J., Nieweg, O., van Akkooi, A., Scolyer, R., Long, G., Thompson, J., Lo, S., et al (2024). Predicting Recurrence-Free and Overall Survival for Patients With Stage II Melanoma: The MIA Calculator. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(10), 1169-1180. [More Information]
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2024
- Gjorup, C., Woodford, R., Li, I., Carlino, M., Ch'ng, S., Chung, D., Hsiao, E., Lo, S., London, K., Long, G., Menzies, A., Nieweg, O., Pennington, T., Rtshiladze, M., Saw, R., Scolyer, R., Shannon, K., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Varey, A., van Akkooi, A. (2024). ASO Visual Abstract: Role of Concurrent Ultrasound Surveillance of Sentinel Node‑Positive Node Fields in Melanoma Patients Having Routine Cross‑Sectional Imaging. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 31(3), 1882-1883. [More Information]
- Menzies, A., Emmett, L., Kapoor, R., Rawson, R., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Spillane, A., Rizos, H., Scolyer, R., Long, G., Lo, S., Saw, R., Gonzalez, M., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Shannon, K., Ferguson, P., et al (2024). Five-year analysis of neoadjuvant dabrafenib and trametinib for stage III melanoma. Annals of Oncology. [More Information]
- Varey, A., Li, I., El Sharouni, M., Simon, J., Dedeilia, A., Ch'ng, S., Saw, R., Spillane, A., Shannon, K., Pennington, T., Rtshiladze, M., Stretch, J., Nieweg, O., van Akkooi, A., Scolyer, R., Long, G., Thompson, J., Lo, S., et al (2024). Predicting Recurrence-Free and Overall Survival for Patients With Stage II Melanoma: The MIA Calculator. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 42(10), 1169-1180. [More Information]
2023
- Holtkamp, L., Lo, S., Thompson, J., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Saw, R., Shannon, K., Nieweg, O., Hong, A. (2023). Adjuvant radiotherapy after salvage surgery for melanoma recurrence in a node field following a previous lymph node dissection. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 128(1), 97-104. [More Information]
- Schoenfeldt, T., Thompson, J., Lo, S., Drzewiecki, K., Stretch, J., Saw, R., Spillane, A., Shannon, K., Uren, R., Chakera, A., Nieweg, O. (2023). ASO Visual Abstract: Prognostic Significance and Management of Sentinel Nodes in the Triangular Intermuscular Space of Patients with Melanoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 30(4), 2362-2363. [More Information]
- Holtkamp, L., Lo, S., Drummond, M., Thompson, J., Nieweg, O., Hong, A. (2023). Hypofractionated or Conventionally Fractionated Adjuvant Radiotherapy After Regional Lymph Node Dissection for High-Risk Stage III Melanoma. Clinical Oncology, 35(1), e85-e93. [More Information]
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2022
- Lawless, A., Coker, D., Lo, S., Ahmed, T., Scolyer, R., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Shannon, K., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Saw, R. (2022). ASO Visual Abstract: Clinicopathological Characteristics Predicting Further Recurrence and Survival Following Resection of In-transit Melanoma Metastases. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 29(11), 7031-7032. [More Information]
- Lawless, A., Coker, D., Lo, S., Ahmed, T., Scolyer, R., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Shannon, K., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Thompson, J., Saw, R. (2022). Clinicopathological Characteristics Predicting Further Recurrence and Survival Following Resection of In-Transit Melanoma Metastases. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 29(11), 7019-7028. [More Information]
- Newell, F., Johansson, P., Wilmott, J., Nones, K., Lakis, V., Pritchard, A., Lo, S., Rawson, R., Kazakoff, S., Colebatch, A., Ferguson, P., Vergara Correa, I., Long, G., Nieweg, O., Shivalingam, B., Stretch, J., Spillane, A., Saw, R., Shannon, K., Thompson, J., et al (2022). Comparative Genomics Provides Etiologic and Biological Insight into Melanoma Subtypes. Cancer Discovery, 12(12), 2856-2879. [More Information]
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2021
- Nijhuis, A., Thompson, J., Nieweg, O. (2021). ASO Author Reflections: Ultrasound Assessment of the Lymphatic Drainage Area in Melanoma Patients With In-Transit Metastases. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 28(3), 1632-1633. [More Information]
- Li, A., Vakharia, K., Lo, S., Varey, A., Carlino, M., Saw, R., Shannon, K., Howle, J., Pennington, T., Stretch, J., Nieweg, O., Spillane, A., Long, G., Menzies, A., Scolyer, R., Thompson, J., Ch'ng, S. (2021). ASO Visual Abstract: Survival Outcomes of Salvage Metastasectomy after Failure of Modern-Era Systemic Therapy for Melanoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 28, 597-598. [More Information]
- Aivazian, K., Ahmed, T., El Sharouni, M., Stretch, J., Saw, R., Spillane, A., Shannon, K., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Thompson, J., Lo, S., Scolyer, R. (2021). Histological regression in melanoma: impact on sentinel lymph node status and survival. Modern Pathology, 34(11), 1999-2008. [More Information]
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2020
- Gonzalez, M., Menzies, A., Pennington, T., Saw, R., Spillane, A., Stretch, J., Shannon, K., Ch'ng, S., Nieweg, O., Rojas, M., Lo, S., Scolyer, R., Long, G., et al (2020). A phase II study of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab and lenvatinib for resectable stage III melanoma: The neopele study. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 38(15), TPS10088. [More Information]
- Nijhuis, A., Nieweg, O. (2020). ASO Author Reflections: Melanoma Patients with a Local Recurrence or In-Transit Metastasis: Sentinel Node Biopsy to Identify Those at Highest Risk of Metastases and Death. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 27(2), 569-570. [More Information]
- Ipenburg, N., Nieweg, O., Lo, S. (2020). Author response to: Comment on: External validation of a prognostic model to predict survival of patients with sentinel node-negative melanoma. British Journal of Surgery, 107(5), 616. [More Information]
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2019
- Nijhuis, A., Ivan, I., Uren, R., Thompson, J., Nieweg, O. (2019). Clinical importance and surgical management of sentinel lymph nodes in the popliteal fossa of melanoma patients. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 45(9), 1706-1711. [More Information]
- Friedman, E., Dodds, T., Lo, S., Ferguson, P., Beck, M., Saw, R., Stretch, J., Lee, K., Nieweg, O., Spillane, A., Scolyer, R., Thompson, J. (2019). Correlation Between Surgical and Histologic Margins in Melanoma Wide Excision Specimens. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 26(1), 25-32. [More Information]
- Ipenburg, N., Nieweg, O., Ahmed, T., van Doorn, R., Scolyer, R., Long, G., Thompson, J., Lo, S. (2019). External validation of a prognostic model to predict survival of patients with sentinel node-negative melanoma. British Journal of Surgery, 106(10), 1319-1326. [More Information]
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2018
- Vidal-Sicart, S., Valdes-Olmos, R., Nieweg, O., Faccini, R., Grootendorst, M., Wester, H., Navab, N., Vojnovic, B., van der Poel, H., Martinez-Roman, S., et al (2018). From interventionist imaging to intraoperative guidance: New perspectives by combining advanced tools and navigation with radio-guided surgery [De la imagen intervencionista a la guía intraoperatoria: nuevas perspectivas combinando herramientas avanzadas y navegación con la cirugía radioguiada]. Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular, 37(1), 28-40. [More Information]
- Minkman, M., Bousema, L., Nieweg, O., Thio, H., Bousema, M. (2018). Nicotinamide for the prevention of nonmelanoma skin cancer [Nicotinamide ter preventie van non-melanoom huidkanker]. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Dermatologie en Venereologie, 28(5), 41-44.
- Dodds, T., Lo, S., Jackett, L., Nieweg, O., Thompson, J., Scolyer, R. (2018). Prognostic Significance of Periadnexal Extension in Cutaneous Melanoma and its Implications for Pathologic Reporting and Staging. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 42(3), 359-366. [More Information]
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2017
- Faries, M., Thompson, J., Cochran, A., Andtbacka, R., Mozzillo, N., Zager, J., Jahkola, T., Bowles, T., Testori, A., Beitsch, P., Nieweg, O., et al (2017). Completion dissection or observation for sentinel-node metastasis in melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine, 376(23), 2211-2222. [More Information]
- Holtkamp, L., Read, R., Emmett, L., Thompson, J., Nieweg, O. (2017). Futility of imaging to stage melanoma patients with a positive sentinel lymph node. Melanoma Research, 27(5), 457-462. [More Information]
- Nelson, D., Stern, S., Elashoff, D., Elashoff, R., Thompson, J., Mozzillo, N., Nieweg, O., Hoekstra, H., Cochran, A., Faires, M. (2017). Impact of Time Between Diagnosis and SLNB on Outcomes in Cutaneous Melanoma. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 225(2), 302-311. [More Information]
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2016
- van den Berg, N., Engelen, T., Brouwer, O., Matheron, H., Valdes-Olmos, R., Nieweg, O., van Leeuwen, F. (2016). A pilot study of SPECT/CT-based mixed-reality navigation towards the sentinel node in patients with melanoma or Merkel cell carcinoma of a lower extremity. Nuclear Medicine Communications, 37(8), 812-817. [More Information]
- Uren, R., Nieweg, O., Thompson, J. (2016). Sentinel lymph node biopsy: Evolution of the technique since the original description by Morton et al. in 1992. Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis, 21(1-2), 7-17. [More Information]
2015
- Holtkamp, L., Wang, S., Wilmott, J., Madore, J., Vilain, R., Thompson, J., Nieweg, O., Scolyer, R. (2015). Detailed Pathological Examination of Completion Node Dissection Specimens and Outcome in Melanoma Patients with Minimal (<0,1mm) Sentinel Lymph Node Metastases. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 22(9), 2972-2977. [More Information]
- Bluemel, C., Herrmann, W., Giammarile, F., Nieweg, O., Dubreuil, J., Testori, A., Audisio, R., Zoras, O., Lassmann, S., Chakera, A., Uren, R., et al (2015). EANM practice guidelines for lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 42, 1750-1766. [More Information]
- van den Berg, N., Brouwer, O., Schaafsma, B., Matheron, H., Klop, W., Balm, A., van Tinteren, H., Nieweg, O., van Leeuwen, F., Valdes Olmos, R. (2015). Multimodal Surgical Guidance during Sentinel Node Biopsy for Melanoma: Combined Gamma Tracing and Fluorescence Imaging of the Sentinel Node through Use of the Hybrid Tracer Indocyanine Green-(99m)Tc-Nanocolloid. Radiology, 275(2), 521-529. [More Information]
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2014
- Morton, D., Thompson, J., Cochran, A., Mozzillo, N., Nieweg, O., Roses, D., Hoekstra, H., Karakousis, C., Puleo, C., Coventry, B., et al (2014). Final trial report of sentinel-node biopsy versus nodal observation in melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine, 370(7), 599-609. [More Information]
- Nieweg, O., Thompson, J. (2014). Sentinel node biopsy is now part of routine staging in patients with clinically localized melanoma. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 84(10), 701-702. [More Information]
2012
- Howard, J., Thompson, J., Mozzillo, N., Nieweg, O., Hoekstra, H., Roses, D., Sondak, V., Reintgen, D., Kashani-Sabet, M., Karakousis, C., et al (2012). Metastasectomy for Distant Metastatic Melanoma: Analysis of Data from the First Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MSLT-I). Annals of Surgical Oncology, 19(8), 2547-2555. [More Information]
2010
- Faries, M., Thompson, J., Cochrane, A., Elashoff, R., Glass, E., Mozzillo, N., Nieweg, O., Roses, D., Hoekstra, H., Karakousis, C., et al (2010). The Impact on Morbidity and Length of Stay of Early Versus Delayed Complete Lymphadenectomy in Melanoma: Results of the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (I). Annals of Surgical Oncology, 17, 3324-3329. [More Information]
2006
- Morton, D., Thompson, J., Cochran, A., Mozzillo, N., Elashoff, R., Essner, R., Nieweg, O., Roses, D., Hoekstra, H., Karakousis, C., et al (2006). Sentinel-node biopsy or nodal observation in melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine, 355(13), 1307-1317. [More Information]
2005
- Morton, D., Cochran, A., Thompson, J., Elashoff, R., Essner, R., Glass, E., Mozzillo, N., Nieweg, O., Roses, D., Hoekstra, H., et al (2005). Sentinel Node Biopsy for Early-Stage Melanoma Accuracy and Morbidity in MSLT-I, an International Multicenter Trial. Annals of Surgery, 242(3), 302-313. [More Information]
2004
- de Vries, J., Nieweg, O., Uren, R. (2004). Position Emission Tomography. In John F Thompson, Donald L Morton, Bin BR Kroon (Eds.), Textbook of Melanoma, (pp. 477-481). London: Martin Dunitz.
Selected Grants
2017
- Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET)/CT surveillance imaging in asymptomatic Stage III melanoma patients - a prospective cohort study of clinical benefit and economic implications, Morton R, Thompson J, Emmett L, Nieweg O, Nieweg O, Turner R, Lord S, Lord S, Cancer Australia/Priority Driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme