Key Academic Outputs

Below are the awards and publications that have emerged from the AIRSPACE project.

Key Publications

  1. Rajgor A, Kui C, Mill A, Rushton S, Obara B, Hamilton DW. When research data meet reality: contrasting advanced laryngeal cancer outcomes in The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) and a United Kingdom regional cohort. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 2025 Oct 6:1-6.
  2. Rajgor, A., Takiar, V. and Hamilton, D., 2025. State of the Art Multimodality Management of Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancers that Optimizes Survival and Function. Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America.
  3. Gill, Terrenjit, David Hamilton, and Amarkumar Rajgor. "The application of radiomics in vestibular schwannomas." The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 139.8 (2025): 647-654.
  4. ‘How Long Do I Have?’ – Examining survival outcomes in laryngeal cancer patients managed with non-curative intent in Northern UK: Insights from the Northern Head & Neck Cancer Alliance Retrospective Study in the journal, Clinical Otolaryngology at: http://doi.org/10.1111/coa.14260 
  5. Rajgor AD, Cowley J, Gillespie C, et al. Outcomes of the modern management approach for locally advanced (T3–T4) laryngeal cancer: a retrospective cohort study. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. Published online 2024:1-7. doi:10.1017/S0022215124001105
  6. Rajgor AD, Kui C, McQueen A, Cowley J, Gillespie C, Mill A, Rushton S, Obara B, Bigirumurame T, Kallas K, O'Hara J, Aboagye E, Hamilton DW. Computed tomography-based radiomic markers are independent prognosticators of survival in advanced laryngeal cancer: a pilot study. J Laryngol Otol. 2024 Jun;138(6):685-691. doi: 10.1017/S0022215123002372. Epub 2023 Dec 14. PMID: 38095096; PMCID: PMC11096831.
  7. Rajgor AD, Patel S, McCulloch D, Obara B, Bacardit J, McQueen A, Aboagye E, Ali T, O'Hara J, Hamilton DW. The application of radiomics in laryngeal cancer. Br J Radiol. 2021 Dec;94(1128):20210499. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20210499. Epub 2021 Sep 29. PMID: 34586899; PMCID: PMC8631034.
  8. Hamilton DW, O'Hara J, Rajgor A, Selby G, Anderson M, Keltie K, Parker R, Teare D, Patterson J, Jones TM, Sharp L. Precision medicine in laryngeal cancer: protocol of the laryngeal cancer cohort (LARCH). BMJ Open. 2023 Jan 13;13(1):e067561. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067561. PMID: 36639211; PMCID: PMC9843189.
  9. Rajgor A, Cowley J, Gillespie C, Lee CW, O'Hara J, Iqbal MS, Hamilton D. Outcomes of the contemporary management approach for locally advanced (T3-T4) laryngeal cancer: a retrospective cohort study. 2022

 

Prizes Awarded

1. George Seed Prize 2025 - Awarded for best unpublished research in North Of England

2. Rowena Ryan Award 2025 - Awarded Nationally by ENT UK - Best Trainee Led Research

3. Munro Black Prize 2024 - Awarded by North East ENT Deanery

4. NPH Minority Ethnic Powerlist 2024 - Awarded 'Thought Leader' regional award 

5. NPH Minority Ethnic Powerlist 2024 - Awarded 'Digital & Technology' regional award

6. Philip Stell Prize 2024 - Awarded by ENT UK: The British Otorhinolaryngology & Allied Sciences Research Society

7. George Grey Turner Prize 2024 - Awarded by Newcastle Health Innovation Partners

9. British Society Of Head & Neck Imaging Prize 2022 - Awarded by Royal Society Of Medicine, British Society of Head & Neck Imaging. British Association Of Head & Neck Oncology Poster Prize 2022 - Awarded by BAHNO 

10. Munro Black Prize 2021 - Awarded by North East ENT Deanery