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DSM staff profile

Associate Professor Sharon Pattison

PositionAssociate Professor and Medical Oncologist
DepartmentDepartment of Medicine (Dunedin)
QualificationsMBChB BMedSc(Disn) PhD FRACP
Research summaryGastrointestinal cancers; neuroendocrine tumours; prognostic and predictive variables.
Teaching
  • Converer ELM2/3 Cancer Vertical Module
  • Convener ALM4 Cancer Whole Class Learning
Memberships
  • Executive Committee Member and Project Oversight Committee Member, Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration (CommNETs)
  • Translational Research Committee Member, Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group (AGITG)
  • Member, ASCO
  • Member, ESMO
  • Member, NZSO
ClinicalGastrointestinal cancers; neuroendocrine tumours; prognostic and predictive variables

Research

Sharon studied at University of Otago and University of Melbourne and was appointed as a Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, and also as Medical Oncologist, Southern District Health Board in 2016. Sharon has research interests in gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, and neuroendocrine tumours, with a particular interest in understanding the variability that is seen at a clinical, histological, and genomic level.

Publications

Rodger, E. J., Gimenez, G., Ajithkumar, P., Stockwell, P. A., Almomani, S., Bowden, S. A., Leichter, A. L., Ahn, A., Pattison, S., McCall, J. L., … Frizelle, F. A., Eccles, M. R., Purcell, R. V., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). An epigenetic signature of advanced colorectal cancer metastasis. iScience. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106986

Vasantharajan, S. S., Barnett, E., Gray, E. S., Rodger, E. J., Eccles, M. R., Pattison, S., Munro, F., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Size-based method for enrichment of circulating tumor cells from blood of colorectal cancer patients. In G. J. Seymour, M. P. Cullinan, N. C. K. Heng & P. R. Cooper (Eds.), Oral biology: Molecular techniques and applications: Methods in molecular biology (Vol. 2588). (3rd ed.) (pp. 231-248). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2780-8_15

Vasantharajan, S. S., Barnett, E., Gray, E. S., McCall, J. L., Rodger, E. J., Eccles, M. R., Munro, F., Pattison, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). Assessment of a size-based method for enriching circulating tumour cells in colorectal cancer. Cancers, 14, 3446. doi: 10.3390/cancers14143446

Powell, R. M., Pattison, S., Moravec, J. C., Bhat, B., Guirguis, N., Markie, D., Jones, G. T., … Print, C. G., Morison, I. M., Gavryushkin, A., … Eccles, M. R., & Macaulay, E. C. (2022). Tuberous sclerosis complex: A complex case. Molecular Case Studies, 8, a006182. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a006182

Elston, M. S., Love, A., Kevat, D., Carroll, R., Siow, Z. R., Pattison, S., … the Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration (CommNETs). (2021). Pituitary function following peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for neuroendocrine tumours. Cancer Medicine, 10, 8405-8411. doi: 10.1002/cam4.4345

Vasantharajan, S. S., Barnett, E., Gray, E. S., Rodger, E. J., Eccles, M. R., Pattison, S., Munro, F., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Size-based method for enrichment of circulating tumor cells from blood of colorectal cancer patients. In G. J. Seymour, M. P. Cullinan, N. C. K. Heng & P. R. Cooper (Eds.), Oral biology: Molecular techniques and applications: Methods in molecular biology (Vol. 2588). (3rd ed.) (pp. 231-248). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2780-8_15

Chapter in Book - Research

Neumann, S., Peyroux, E. M., Woodall, M. J., Shields, N. J., Young, S. L., & Pattison, S. T. (2019). The Influence of microbial metabolites in the gastrointestinal microenvironment on anticancer immunity. In M. Rajer & E. Segelov (Eds.), Current cancer treatment. London, UK: IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.88137

Chapter in Book - Research

Pattison, S., & Boussioutas, A. (2015). Pathophysiology of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. In V. E. Strong (Ed.), Gastric cancer: Principles and practice. (pp. 91-109). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15826-6_6

Chapter in Book - Other

Rodger, E. J., Gimenez, G., Ajithkumar, P., Stockwell, P. A., Almomani, S., Bowden, S. A., Leichter, A. L., Ahn, A., Pattison, S., McCall, J. L., … Frizelle, F. A., Eccles, M. R., Purcell, R. V., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). An epigenetic signature of advanced colorectal cancer metastasis. iScience. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106986

Journal - Research Article

Powell, R. M., Pattison, S., Moravec, J. C., Bhat, B., Guirguis, N., Markie, D., Jones, G. T., … Print, C. G., Morison, I. M., Gavryushkin, A., … Eccles, M. R., & Macaulay, E. C. (2022). Tuberous sclerosis complex: A complex case. Molecular Case Studies, 8, a006182. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a006182

Journal - Research Article

Vasantharajan, S. S., Barnett, E., Gray, E. S., McCall, J. L., Rodger, E. J., Eccles, M. R., Munro, F., Pattison, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). Assessment of a size-based method for enriching circulating tumour cells in colorectal cancer. Cancers, 14, 3446. doi: 10.3390/cancers14143446

Journal - Research Article

Busuttil, R. A., George, J., House, C. M., Lade, S., Mitchell, C., Di Costanzo, N. S., Pattison, S., … Boussioutas, A. (2021). SFRP4 drives invasion in gastric cancer and is an early predictor of recurrence. Gastric Cancer, 24, 589-601. doi: 10.1007/s10120-020-01143-8

Journal - Research Article

Elston, M. S., Love, A., Kevat, D., Carroll, R., Siow, Z. R., Pattison, S., … the Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration (CommNETs). (2021). Pituitary function following peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for neuroendocrine tumours. Cancer Medicine, 10, 8405-8411. doi: 10.1002/cam4.4345

Journal - Research Article

Shyam, S., Eccles, M. R., Rodger, E. J., Pattison, S., McCall, J. L., Gray, E. S., … Chatterjee, A. (2021). The epigenetic landscape of circulating tumour cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Reviews on Cancer, 1875(188514). doi: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2021.188514

Journal - Research Article

Wang, K., Li, E., Busuttil, R. A., Kong, J. C., Pattison, S., Sung, J. J. Y., … Boussioutas, A. (2020). A cohort study and meta-analysis of the evidence for consideration of Lauren subtype when prescribing adjuvant or palliative chemotherapy for gastric cancer. Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology, 12, 1-22. doi: 10.1177/1758835920930359

Journal - Research Article

Woodhouse, B., Pattison, S., Segelov, E., Singh, S., Parker, K., Kong, G., … Koea, J., … and on behalf of the Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration (CommNETs), including Carroll, R. (2019). Consensus-derived quality performance indicators for neuroendocrine tumour care. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8, 1455. doi: 10.3390/jcm8091455

Journal - Research Article

Pattison, S., Mitchell, C., Lade, S., Leong, T., Busuttil, R. A., & Boussioutas, A. (2017). Early relapses after adjuvant chemotherapy suggests primary chemoresistance in diffuse gastric cancer. PLoS ONE, 12(9), e0183891. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183891

Journal - Research Article

Pattison, S., Mann, G. B., Crosthwaite, G., Lade, S., Mitchell, C., Leong, T., … Boussioutas, A. (2016). Predictors of outcome after surgery for gastric cancer in a Western cohort. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 86(6), 469-474. doi: 10.1111/ans.12915

Journal - Research Article

Wang, M., Busuttil, R. A., Pattison, S., Neeson, P. J., & Boussioutas, A. (2016). Immunological battlefield in gastric cancer and role of immunotherapies. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 22(28), 6373-6384. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i28.6373

Journal - Research Article

Lei, Z., Tan, I. B., Das, K., Deng, N., Zouridis, H., Pattison, S., … Rozen, S. G. (2013). Identification of molecular subtypes of gastric cancer with different responses to PI3-kinase inhibitors and 5-fluorouracil. Gastroenterology, 145, 554-565. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2013.05.010

Journal - Research Article

Futschik, M., Jeffs, A., Pattison, S., Kasabov, N., Sullivan, M., Merrie, A., & Reeve, A. (2002). Gene expression profiling of metastatic and nonmetastatic colorectal cancer cell lines. Genome Letters, 1(1), 26-34. doi: 10.1166/gl.2002.005

Journal - Research Article

Pattison, S. T., & Reeve, A. E. (2001). From molecule to malady. The future of high speed molecular biology in medicine. New Zealand Medical Journal, 114, 70-72.

Journal - Research Article

Sohail, S., Zuk, V., Halfdanarson, T., Chan, D., Pattison, S., Vasdev, R., … Hallett, J. (2021). The quality of online information for an uncommon malignancy: Neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) [Communication]. Current Oncology, 28, 842-846. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28010082

Journal - Research Other

Woodall, M. J., Neumann, S., Campbell, K., Pattison, S. T., & Young, S. L. (2020). The effects of obesity on anti-cancer immunity and cancer immunotherapy. Cancers, 12(5), 1230. doi: 10.3390/cancers12051230

Journal - Research Other

Pattison, S., & Zalcberg, J. R. (2014). Bespoke treatment: Drivers beware! Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 10(4), 378-380. doi: 10.1111/ajco.12265

Journal - Research Other

Pattison, S. T., & McLaren, B. R. (2013). Triple negative breast cancer in a male-to-female transsexual [Brief communication]. Internal Medicine Journal, 43(2), 203-205. doi: 10.1111/imj.12047

Journal - Research Other

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