Cancer Control Group

Group Leader

Professor David Whiteman

Summary

Research undertaken by the Cancer Control Group is conducted with a view to reducing the burden from cancer through identifying risk factors, then translating these research findings into policy and practice. This includes research to identify the environmental and genetic factors that cause cancer, as well as research into early diagnosis, treatment and survival.

Conditions researched

• Melanoma
• Skin cancers
• Oesophageal cancer and Barrett’s oesophagus

Current research

• QSkin - the world's largest study of melanoma and skin cancer
• PROBE-Net - the Progression of Barrett's Esophagus Network
• BEAGES: the Barrett's Esophagus and Adenocarcinoma Genes and Environment Study
• The Causes of Melanoma Study
• BOMS - the Barrett's Oesophagus Metabolic Study

Staff

Group Leader: Professor David Whiteman

Senior staff: Dr Catherine Olsen, Dr Annika Antonsson

Project staff: Barbara Ranieri, Bridie Thompson, Chris Hill, Daniel Lancini, Karen Harrap, Lea Jackman, Rebekah Cicero, Sam Vaartjes, Suzanne O'Brien, Sue Perry

Students: Aaron Thrift, Brad Kendall

Visiting scientists: Conrad Morze, Marina Kvaskoff, Nirmala Pandeya, Dr Shahram Sadeghi

Funding

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following funding agencies:

• National Cancer Institute (USA)
• National Health and Medical Research Council
• The Cancer Council Queensland
• The Cancer Council NSW
• Xstrata
• Gallipoli Research Foundation
• The Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation

Collaborators

Overseas:

Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Leeds University, UK

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

Harvard University, Boston, USA

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA

BEACON: The Barrett's Oesophagus and Adenocarcinoma Consortium, Worldwide participant

Kaiser Permanente Research Division, San Francisco, California

Australian:

Cancer Council NSW

Princess Alexandra Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology/Department of Surgery

Queensland Health

Queensland University of Technology, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne

School of Medicine, The University of Queensland

School of Population Health, The University of Queensland

St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

Flinders University Department of Surgery, Adelaide