Lisa Caldon
Career
From August 2002 to October 2008, Caldon worked as a clinical lecturer at Cancer Research UK, teaching others about the psychosocial aspects of cancer. Since October 2010, she has worked as a clinical lecturer and senior registrar at Sheffield University.
In 2016, Caldon collaborated with a team of medical specialists in publishing the fifth edition of Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery, which was written to "deliver a concise and didactic account of the essential features of all common surgical disorders." Much of her work was in assessing breast cancer.
Caldon is a member of the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons.
Publications
- Short-term safety outcomes of mastectomy and immediate implant-based breast reconstruction with and without mesh (iBRA): a multicentre, prospective cohort study (The Lancet Oncology, February 2019)
- Efficient development and usability testing of decision support interventions for older women with breast cancer (Patient Preference and Adherence, January 2019)
- Understanding older women’s decision making and coping in the context of breast cancer treatment (BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, June 2015)
- The use of Titanium mesh (TiLOOP) in immediate breast reconstruction; low cost, low complications (European journal of surgical oncology: the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology, June 2015)
- The development of a decision support intervention for older women with a choice of surgery or primary endocrine therapy to treat breast cancer (Future Oncology, January 2015)
- The Information and decision support needs of older women (>75 yrs) facing treatment choices for breast cancer: A qualitative study (Psycho-Oncology, December 2014)
- Information Needs of Older Women Faced with a Choice of Primary Endocrine Therapy or Surgery for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Literature Review (Current Breast Cancer Reports, September 2014)
- Theory based analysis of the effects of decision aids for surgery in early stage breast cancer: a systematic review (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, September 2013)
- Increasing readiness to decide and strengthening behavioral intentions: Evaluating the impact of a web-based patient decision aid for breast cancer treatment options (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (Patient Education and Counseling, April 2012)
- Why do hospital mastectomy rates vary? Differences in the decision-making experiences of women with breast cancer (with co-author Sam Ahmedzai) (British Journal of Cancer, May 2011)
- Clinicians' concerns about decision support interventions for patients facing breast cancer surgery options: understanding the challenge of implementing shared decision-making (with co-author Glyn Elwyn) (Health Expectations, October 2010)
- Consumers as researchers – innovative experiences in UK National Health Service Research (International IJC, August 2010)
- Changing trends in the decision-making preferences of women with early breast cancer (British Journal of Surgery, March 2008)
- What influences clinicians’ operative preferences for women with breast cancer? An application of the discrete choice experiment (European Journal of Cancer, August 2007)
- Case-mix fails to explain variation in mastectomy rates: management of screen-detected breast cancer in a UK region 1997-2003 (British Journal of Cancer, February 2005)
- Case-mix fails to explain variation in mastectomy rates: management of screen-detected breast cancer in a UK region 1997-2003 (British Journal of Cancer, January 2005)
- Selecting performance assessment methods (Medical Education, November 2002)
- Is insight important? Measuring the capacity to change (Medical Education, November 2002)
- Is insight important? measuring capacity to change performance. (Medical Education, January 2002)
- Changing patterns of surgery: The trent breast screening program 1997-2000 (European journal of cancer, September 2001)