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Lucy E. Cain, MBBS, MIPH, MSc

About Lucy E. Cain, MBBS, MIPH, MSc

Titles

Attending Physician

Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

Awards and Honors

2016, Hoc Mai Scholarship The University of Sydney Office of Global Health
2013, Geoff Walker Memorial Award for excellence in RMO performance Canterbury Hospital
2011, Dean's Scholarship The University of Sydney, Nepean Clinical School

Leadership and Memberships

2022-present, Children's Oncology Group, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Relapse Group
2022-present, American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 
2021-present, Children's Oncology Group 
2021-present, Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group
2020-present, Connective Tissue Oncology Society
2019-present, American Society of Hematology 
2018-present, Doctors for the Environment Australia 
2018-present, Doctors for Refugees 
2015-present, Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation 

Education & training

Graduate Degree

MSc in Genomics and Precision Medicine - University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
MIPH - University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Medical Degree

MBBS - University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Residency

Pediatrics - The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia (Deputy Chief Resident Medical Officer)

Fellowship

Provisional Fellow - Cancer Centre for Children, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Provisional Fellow - Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Kid's Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cellular Therapy and Transplant - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Team affiliations

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Publications

Publications

2023

Kahana-Edwin S, Torpy J, Cain LE, et al: Quantitative ctDNA Detection in Hepatoblastoma: Implications for Precision Medicine. Cancers (Basel) 16(1): 12, Jan 2023.

From Pediatric to Adult Brain Cancer: Exploring Histone H3 Mutations in Australian Brain Cancer Patients: Grebstad Tune B, Sareen H, Powter B, Kahana-Edwin S, Cooper A, Koh ES, Lee CS, Po JW, McCowage G, Dexter M, Cain L, O'Neill G, Prior V, Karpelowsky J, Tsoli M, Baumbusch LO, Ziegler D, Roberts TL, DeSouza P, Becker TM, Ma Y. Biomedicines 11(11): 2907, Oct 2023.

2021

Kahana-Edwin S, Cain LE, Karpelowsky J. : Roadmap to Liquid Biopsy Biobanking from Pediatric Cancers-Challenges and Opportunities. Biopreserv Biobank 19(2): 124-129, April 2021.

Kahana-Edwin S, Cain LE, McCowage G, Darmanian A, Wright D, Mullins A, Saletta F, Karpelowsky J.: Neuroblastoma Molecular Risk-Stratification of DNA Copy Number and ALK Genotyping via Cell-Free Circulating Tumor DNA Profiling. Cancers (Basel) 13(13): 3365, Jul 2021.

2020

Kahana-Edwin S, McCowage G, Cain L, Saletta F, Yuksel A, Graf N, Karpelowsky J: Exploration of CTNNB1 ctDNA as a putative biomarker for hepatoblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 67(11): e28594, Nov 2020.

2014

Concord Medical Emergency Team (MET) Incidents Study Investigators; Cheung W, Sahai V, Mann-Farrar J, Skylas K, Uy J, Doyle B.: Incidents resulting from staff leaving normal duties to attend medical emergency team calls. Med J Aust 201(9): 528-31, Nov 2014.

Lectures by Invitation

2023

Cain LE. "Haematopoietic progenitor cell mobilisation following blinatumomab therapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia." Poster to be presented at: Tandem Meetings. Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR. Orlando, Florida. Feb 2023.

2022

Cain LE. "C-circle testing as an 'ALT'ernative liquid biopsy approach for osteosarcoma." Poster presented at: Australia and New Zealand Sarcoma Association Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney, Queenstown. 2022 Choong-Dickinson Poster Prize Award. Nov 2022.

Cain LE. Accessing donors in a geographically isolated country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poster presented at: The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney. Jul 2022.

Cain LE. Central nervous system fungal infections are not universally fatal: a single institution retrospective analysis. Poster presented at: The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney. Jul 2022.

Cain LE. Infantile fibrosarcoma with the rare TFG::MET fusion. Poster presented at: The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) Annual Scientific Meeting. Sydney. Jul 2022.

Cain LE. Paediatric experience of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for relapsed/refractory Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Poster presented at: Tandem Meetings. Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of ASTCT and CIBMTR. Virtual & Salt Lake City. Apr 2022.

Cain LE. The tyranny of distance in paediatric BMT within Australia. Poster presented at: EBMT 48thAnnual Meeting. Virtual & Prague. May 2022.

2021

Cain LE. "CTTNB1 circulating tumour DNA as a putative biomarker for hepatoblastoma. Oral presentation at International Society of Paediatric Oncology Congress." Oct 2021.

Cain LE. The Utility of PET Scan in Off-treatment Surveillance of Paediatric Bone Tumours. Poster presented at: The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) Annual Scientific Meeting. Virtual. Jun 2021.

Cain LE. Utility of CTNNB1 ctDNA as a biomarker for hepatoblastoma. Poster presented at: American Association for Cancer Research. Virtual. May 2021.

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