Staff Profile

Consultant Breast Radiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle University

Treasurer, British Society of Breast Radiology

Joint Radiology Lead, National Breast Imaging Academy, e-Learning Programme

Advisory Editor, Clinical Radiology (Elsevier)

Vice Chair, R&D Council, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

• Lowes S. Virtual special issue on breast MRI. Clinical Radiology 2021, 76(4), 239-240.
• Sutherland R, Meeson A, Lowes S. Solute transporters and malignancy: establishing the role of uptake transporters in breast cancer and breast cancer metastasis. Cancer and Metastasis Reviews 2020, 39, 919-932.
• Lowes S, Bell A, Milligan R, Amonkar S, Leaver A. Use of Hologic LOCalizer radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags to localise impalpable breast lesions and axillary nodes: experience of the first 150 cases in a UK breast unit. Clinical Radiology 2020, 75(12), 942-949.
• Redman A, Lowes S, Leaver A. Imaging techniques in breast cancer. Surgery 2016, 34(1), 8-18.
• Forester ND, Lowes S, Mitchell E, Twiddy M. High risk (B3) breast lesions: What is the incidence of malignancy for individual lesion subtypes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Surgical Oncology 2019, 45(4), 519-527.
• Bignardi GE, Lowes S. MRSA screening: throat swabs are better than nose swabs. Journal of Hospital Infection 2009, 71(4), 373-374.
• Windass A, Lowes S, Wang Y, Brown C. The contribution of Organic Anion Transporters OAT1 and OAT3 to the renal uptake of rosuvastatin. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2007, 322(3), 1221-1227.
• Lowes S, Simmons NL. Multiple pathways for fluoroquinolone secretion by human intestinal epithelial (Caco-2) cells. British Journal of Pharmacology 2002, 135(5), 1263-1275.
• Lowes S, Simmons NL. Human intestinal cell monolayers are preferentially sensitive to disruption of barrier function from basolateral exposure to cholic acid: Correlation with membrane transport and transepithelial secretion. Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology 2001, 443(2), 265-273.
• Lowes S, Eastmond R, Simmons NL. Active secretion of cholic acid across epithelial layers of human intestinal (Caco-2) cells. In: Journal of Physiology. 2000, Wiley-Blackwell.