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Staff Profile

Dr Rachel Pearson

Honorary Prof of Orthopaedic Oncology

Background

Present Appointment

  • CRUK/MRC funded Clinical Research Associate in Cancer Imaging

  • PhD Supervisors: Professor Herbie Newell, Dr Ross Maxwell and Professor Ruth Plummer

Previous Appointment

  • Specialist Registrar in Clinical Oncology, Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne

Degrees

  • MB ChB Aberdeen 2001

  • MRCP Edinburgh 2004

  • FRCR London 2011

Memberships

  • NCRI Bladder and Renal CSG (Trainee member since 2014)

Research

Research Interests

  • Novel PET and magnetic resonance imaging techniques to personalise treatments for oncology patients

  • Integration of biological tumour data from PET/MRI (e.g. proliferation, hypoxia, glucose metabolism) with anatomical information from routine CT/MRI for early response assessment and radiotherapy planning

Clinical Trials

  • F-18 Fluoro-L-Thymidine PET for assessment of treatment response in Exocrine Carcinoma of the Pancreas (Collaboration with Imperial College)

  • FLAIRE: Using 18F-FLT PET CT to Assess response on Imaging to Radiotherapy and guide future dose Escalation to resistant areas in the radiotherapy treatment of locally advanced oropharyngeal cancer: a pilot study

  • MARBLE: Exploring the use of Functional MRI to Assess early Response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in muscle invasive BLaddEr cancer (incorporating an 18 F- FLT PET sub study)

  • THRIFT: THyRoid Cancer IMRT Planning Using 18F FluoroThymidine PET CT: a pilot study

Grant Funding

  • MRC Confidence in Concept 2014-2015: Optimising FLT-PET CT scanning with thymidine phosphorylase

Teaching
Teaching

  • Organised a one-day workshop on Imaging in Stratified Cancer Treatment – Methodology, Pre-clinical Discovery and Clinical Trials at 缅北禁地, November 2013, with Professor Herbie Newell and Dr Ross Maxwell.  Meeting was attended by 60 UK delegates, primarily young investigators. 

Publications
  • Martinez RC, Sathasivam HP, Cosway B, Paleri V, Fellows S, Adams J, Kennedy M, Pearson R, Long A, Sloan P, Robinson M. . British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 2018, 56(4), 332-337.
  • Barnes A, Alonzi R, Blackledge M, Charles-Edwards G, Collins DJ, Cook G, Coutts G, Goh V, Graves M, Kelly C, Koh D-M, McCallum H, Miquel ME, O'Connor J, Padhani A, Pearson R, Priest A, Rockall A, Stirling J, Taylor S, Tunariu N, van der Meulen J, Walls D, Winfield J, Punwani S. . British Journal of Radiology 2018, 91(1081), 20170577.
  • Pearson RA, Thelwall PE, Snell J, McKenna J, Pieniazek P, Fitzgerald EL, Heer R, McMenemin RM, Pedley ID, Azzabi AS, Newell H, Maxwell RJ, Plummer ER, Frew JA. . In: 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. 2016, San Francisco: American Society of Clinical Oncology.
  • Pearson RA, Thelwall PE, Snell J, McKenna J, Pieniazek P, Fitzgerald E, Heer R, McMenemin RM, Pedley ID, Azzabi A, Maxwell RJ, Newell DR, Plummer ER, Frew JA. . In: Genitourinary Cancers Symposium 2016. 2016, San Francisco, California: Journal of Clinical Oncology.
  • Panebianco V, Barchetti F, de Haas RJ, Pearson RA, Kennish SJ, Giannarini G, Catto JWF. . European Urology Focus 2016, 2(2), 113-121.
  • Challapalli A, Barwick T, Pearson RA, Merchant S, Mauri F, Howell EC, Sumpter K, Maxwell RJ, Aboagye EO, Sharma R. . European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2015, 42(6), 831-840.
  • Goranov BB, Drew Y, Graham J, Iqbal MS, Kagzi M, Mahtab N, Pearson R, Smith E, Mulvenna P. . Clinical Oncology 2013, 25(7), 446-446.
  • Pearson R, Brown R, Robinson M, Kelly C, Chatterjee S. . Clinical Oncology 2011, 23(3), S23-S23.
  • Pearson RA, Bannister-Young RH, Ivison D, Kelly CG, Chatterjee S. Split-course Hypofractionated Palliative Radiotherapy for Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma - a Worthwhile Treatment Schedule in the UK?. CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 2010, 22(10), 890-891.