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- Dr Caroline Connell
Dr Caroline Connell
MBBS (hons), FRANZCR, Radiation Oncologist
Cancer management can be complex and I believe in the role of a multidisciplinary team collaborating together with the aim of providing best possible patient outcomes.
Languages spoken
English
Overview
Centres
Consulting locations
Stirling (Stirling Hospital)
20 Milan Terrace, Stirling, SA 5152
Availability: Every second week
Please direct all referrals to GenesisCare, SA and state you would like a consultation at the Stirling location.
Clinical interests
Treatment techniques
Clinical interests in head and neck, breast, gastrointestinal, palliative radiation therapy, urological, and skin malignancies as well as benign conditions such as Dupuytren's Contracture.
Dr Connell is a graduate of Flinders University of South Australia and completed her Radiation Oncology training at the Royal Adelaide and Alfred Hospitals (Melbourne) in 2004, achieving the Kaye Scott Prize in the Fellowship Examination. She completed a fellowship year in Head and Neck Cancer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, publishing research on the management of head and neck cancer using FDG PET technology.
She spent two years treating urological malignancies in Oxford, UK, before taking up her position at Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre in 2009 (now part of GenesisCare).
She is actively involved in the education of radiotherapy registrars and attends regular multidisciplinary team meetings where cancer cases are discussed with other specialist colleagues, aiming to develop an individualised treatment approach. She is an active member of the GenesisCare National Head and Neck Expert Advisory Group and co-chair of the St Andrews Head and Neck, as well as the Flinders Private Breast and Urology Multidisciplinary Meetings.
Based at Flinders Private Hospital, Tennyson Centre, and South Terrace centres, she consults both private and public patients and manages all oncological and benign conditions amenable to radiotherapy. She is involved in recruiting patients to clinical trials both within GenesisCare and in conjunction with the Flinders Medical Centre Cancer Centre, offering patients access to the modern advances in oncological practice. A further clinical interest is the management of benign conditions such as Dupuytren's disease.
Regional consulting locations
Dr Connell consults at Stirling Hospital.
Clinical interests
Dr Connell has a clinical interest in aiming to optimise quality and consistency of head and neck cancer treatment. A further clinical interest is the management of benign conditions such as Dupuytren's disease.
Professional memberships
- RANZCR
- Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society
- TROG
- South Australian Head and Neck Society
- European Society of Radiation Oncology
Publications
- Clinical impact of, and prognostic stratification by, F-18 FDG PET/CT in head and neck mucosal squamous cell carcinoma. Connell CA, Corry J, Milner AD, Hogg A, Hicks RJ, Rischin D, Peters LJ.Head Neck. 2007 Nov;29(11):986-95. doi: 10.1002/hed.20629.PMID: 17563906 Clinical Trial Cancers (Basel)
- A Retrospective Dosimetric Study of Radiotherapy Patients with Left-Sided Breast Cancer; Patient Selection Criteria for Deep Inspiration Breath Hold Technique Mikaela Dell'Oro 1, Eileen Giles 2, Amy Sharkey 3, Martin Borg 4, Caroline Connell 5, Eva Bezak 6 7Cancers2019 Feb 22;11(2):259.
- Quantitative measures of salivary changes in head and neck cancer survivors post definitive chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Xu Ke, Tadjoudine N, Fitzgerald M, Connell C, Koczwara B, Sukumaran S. Poster presentation ANZHNS annual scientific meeting 2019.
- Patters of Care and Clinical Outcomes for Gastric and gastro oesophageal cancers in South Australian Population – A state-wide Audit. Abbas N, Karapetis C, Barnes M, Bright T, Shenfine J, Bull J, Thompson S, Singhal N, Rodgers N, Gowda R, Connell C. Poster presentation, ESMO World congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2018.
- Patterns of Care and Outcomes for Gastric and Gastro-Oesophageal Junction Cancer in an Australian Population. Abbas M, Price T, Karapetis C, Thompson S, Connell C, Watsosn D, Barnes D, Bull J, Singhal N, Roy A. Accepted for publication ANZ Journal of Surgery. September 2021.
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