Cancer research at Midland

With a focus on collaboration to enable the highest quality of care to be provided, our team is committed to continue to strive for better patient outcomes and translation of results to guide evidence based clinical pathways and knowledge transfer.

• A qualitative investigation of the psychosocial supportive care needs and support service use by Western Australians living with cancer
• Patients First: Continuous Improvement in Care - Cancer Project (CIC Cancer Project).

Dr Sayed Ali, Head of Service - Medical Oncology
Dr Mary Theophilus, Head of Department, General Surgery

St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals

Fadia M, Fookeerah P, Ali S, Shadbolt B, Greenaway T, Perampalam S. PD-L1 expression in papillary thyroid cancer with and without lymphocytic thyroiditis: a cross sectional study. Pathology. 2020;52(3):318-322. doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2019.11.007

Tu WJ, McCuaig RD, Tan AHY, Hardy K, Seddiki N, Ali S, Dahlstrom JE, Bean EG, Dunn J, Forwood J, Tsimbalyuk S, Smith K, Yip D, Malik L, Prasanna T, Milburn P, Rao S. (2020) Targeting Nuclear LSD1 to Reprogram Cancer Cells and Reinvigorate Exhausted T Cells via a Novel LSD1-EOMES Switch. Front Immunol. 2020;11:1228. Published 2020 Jun 16. doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.01228