Staff Profile

Consultant Breast Radiologist, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

Director, Northern Centre for Breast Research, Gateshead Health NHSFoundation Trust

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Newcastle University

Royal College of Radiologists' Roentgen Professor 2026

Treasurer/Executive Committee Officer, British Society of Breast Radiology

Radiology Lead (joint), National Breast Imaging Academy, e-Learning Programme

Advisory Editor, Clinical Radiology (Elsevier)/ Editorial Board Member

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

Member of the Royal College of Radiologists' Academic Committee

Member of the Royal College of Radiologists' Professional Practice Board

Member of the NICE Breast Cancer Committee

NIHR North East North Cumbria Research Delivery Network Specialty Lead for Imaging

• Articles

  • Chan CD, Brookes MJ, Ali T, Howell E, Dildey P, Firbank M, Pearson R, Sloan P, Lowes S, Sinha R, Tuckett J, Ragbir M, Beckingsale T, Hide G, Gerrand C, Rankin KS, Petrides GS. The Use of Positron-Emission Tomography–Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Improve the Local Staging of Disease in Myxofibrosarcoma: A Feasibility Study. Diagnostics 2025, 15(8), 1039.
  • Lowes S, Gibson E, Kulkarni T, Nash J, Sharma N, Sharma S, Suaris T, Telesca M, Lip G, Healy N. Non-biopsy of fibroadenomas in the UK and Ireland: a British Society of Breast Radiology survey of national practice. Clinical Radiology 2025, 88, 106997.
  • Kirwan CC, Hilton B, Clements K, Dodwell D, Pinder SE, Shaaban A, Stobart H, Wallis M, Provenzano E, Maxwell AJ, Sharma N, Sawyer E, Lowes S, Kearins O, Cutress RI, Mylvaganam S, Thompson A. Discrepancy between mammographic and pathological sizing of screen-detected DCIS: Risk factors and impact on ipsilateral recurrence rates. European Journal of Surgical Oncology 2025, 51(11), 110431.
  • Telfer-Sutherland R, Page L, Meeson A, Lowes S. Differential Expression Patterns of SLCO Solute Carriers in Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines and Tumour Samples. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 2025, 29(17), e70838.
  • Harvey J, Morgan J, Lowes S, Milligan R, Barrett E, Carmichael A, Elgammal S, Masudi T, Holcombe C, Masannat Y, Potter S, Dave RV. Wire- and radiofrequency identification tag-guided localization of impalpable breast lesions: IBRA-NET localization study. British Journal of Surgery 2024, 111(2), znae007.
  • Morgan JL, Harvey J, Lowes S, Milligan R, Krizak S, Masannat Y, Carmichael A, Elgammal S, Youssef M, Petralia G, Dave RV. Results of shared learning of a new radiofrequency identification localization device—a UK iBRA-NET breast cancer localisation study. Clinical Radiology 2024, 79(11), e1288-e1295.
  • Lowes S, El Tahir S, Koo S, Amonkar S, Leaver A, Milligan R. Pre-operative localisation of axillary lymph nodes using radiofrequency identification (RFID) tags: a feasibility assessment in 75 cases. Clinical Radiology 2023, 78(9), E668-E675.
  • Carpenter S, Graham Y, Kulkarni T, Lyburn I, Vinnicombe S, Sharma S, Sharma N, Lowes S. A national survey investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on core and higher breast radiology training in the UK. Clinical Radiology 2022, 77(10), 749-758.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • 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.

• Editorial

  • Lowes S. Virtual special issue on breast MRI. Clinical Radiology 2021, 76(4), 239-240.

• Letter

  • Bignardi GE, Lowes S. MRSA screening: throat swabs are better than nose swabs. Journal of Hospital Infection 2009, 71(4), 373-374.

• Reviews

  • 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.
  • Redman A, Lowes S, Leaver A. Imaging techniques in breast cancer. Surgery 2016, 34(1), 8-18.