Overview
Background
Dr Caroline Cooper, BMedSci, MB,BS (Hons), FRCPA, GCertHE, MPhil, graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Tasmania and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists in Anatomical Pathology in 2007. She completed a Masters of Philosophy in Biomarkers in Breast Cancer, Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma and Perineural spread of squamous cell carcinoma in 2024 at the Simpson Lab at the Frazer Institute. Her areas of research include translational pathology, biomarker implementation and diagnostic precision in cancer. Caroline is a Senior Anatomical Pathologist and co-director of Anatomical Pathology, Pathology Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
Availability
- Dr Caroline Cooper is:
- Available for supervision
Research impacts
Morphological, spatial and biomarker profiling in gastrointestinal, lung and cutaneous cancers to eludidate improved approaches to diagnosis and patient care.
Works
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2020
Journal Article
Concurrent native valve infective endocarditis and myocarditis: the key role of F-18-FDG PET/CT
Reyaldeen, Reza, Wahi, Sudhir, Cole, Chris, Kaye, Gerald, Law, Phillip, Cooper, Caroline and Chong, Adrian (2020). Concurrent native valve infective endocarditis and myocarditis: the key role of F-18-FDG PET/CT. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 28 (4), 1781-1784. doi: 10.1007/s12350-020-02108-1
2020
Journal Article
Validation and characterisation of prognostically significant PD-L1+ immune cells in HPV+ oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Young, Richard J., Bressel, Mathias, Porceddu, Sandro, Cernelc, Janez, Savas, Peter, Liu, Howard, Urban, Damien, Thai, Alesha A., Cooper, Caroline, Fua, Tsien, Neeson, Paul, Rischin, Danny and Solomon, Benjamin (2020). Validation and characterisation of prognostically significant PD-L1+ immune cells in HPV+ oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Oral Oncology, 101 104516, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2019.104516
2020
Journal Article
Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer
Wu, Sunny Z., Roden, Daniel L., Wang, Chenfei, Holliday, Holly, Harvey, Kate, Cazet, Aurélie S., Murphy, Kendelle J., Pereira, Brooke, Al-Eryani, Ghamdan, Bartonicek, Nenad, Hou, Rui, Torpy, James R., Junankar, Simon, Chan, Chia-Ling, Lam, Chuan En, Hui, Mun N., Gluch, Laurence, Beith, Jane, Parker, Andrew, Robbins, Elizabeth, Segara, Davendra, Mak, Cindy, Cooper, Caroline, Warrier, Sanjay, Forrest, Alistair, Powell, Joseph, O'Toole, Sandra, Cox, Thomas R., Timpson, Paul ... Swarbrick, Alexander (2020). Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer. EMBO Journal, 39 (19) e104063, 1-20. doi: 10.15252/embj.2019104063
2019
Journal Article
An ErbB2/c-Src axis links bioenergetics with PRC2 translation to drive epigenetic reprogramming and mammary tumorigenesis
Smith, Harvey W., Hirukawa, Alison, Sanguin-Gendreau, Virginie, Nandi, Ipshita, Dufour, Catherine R., Zuo, Dongmei, Tandoc, Kristofferson, Leibovitch, Matthew, Singh, Salendra, Rennhack, Jonathan P., Swiatnicki, Matthew, Lavoie, Cynthia, Papavasiliou, Vasilios, Temps, Carolin, Carragher, Neil O., Unciti-Broceta, Asier, Savage, Paul, Basik, Mark, van Hoef, Vincent, Larsson, Ola, Cooper, Caroline L., Vargas Calderon, Ana Cristina, Beith, Jane, Millar, Ewan, Selinger, Christina, Giguère, Vincent, Park, Morag, Harris, Lyndsay N., Varadan, Vinay ... Muller, William J. (2019). An ErbB2/c-Src axis links bioenergetics with PRC2 translation to drive epigenetic reprogramming and mammary tumorigenesis. Nature Communications, 10 (1) 2901, 2901. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-10681-4
2019
Journal Article
Australian consensus statement for best practice ROS1 testing in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Pavlakis, Nick, Cooper, Caroline, John, Thomas, Kao, Steven, Klebe, Sonja, Lee, Chee Khoon, Leong, Trishe, Millward, Michael, O'Byrne, Ken, Russell, Prudence A., Solomon, Benjamin, Cooper, Wendy A. and Fox, Stephen (2019). Australian consensus statement for best practice ROS1 testing in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Pathology, 51 (7), 673-680. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2019.08.006
2019
Journal Article
Nesidioblastosis in an Adult with Short Gut Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
Wong, Mimi, Conway, Luke, Cooper, Caroline, Sinha, Ashim and Nandi, Nirjhar (2019). Nesidioblastosis in an Adult with Short Gut Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes. AACE Clinical Case Reports, 5 (6), e375-e379. doi: 10.4158/ACCR-2019-0243
2019
Journal Article
Identification of an excellent prognosis subset of human papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal cancer patients by quantification of intratumoral CD103+ immune cell abundance
Solomon, B., Young, R. J., Bressel, M., Cernelc, J., Savas, P., Liu, H., Urban, D., Thai, A., Cooper, C., Fua, T., Neeson, P., Loi, S., Porceddu, S. V. and Rischin, D. (2019). Identification of an excellent prognosis subset of human papillomavirus-associated oropharyngeal cancer patients by quantification of intratumoral CD103+ immune cell abundance. Annals of Oncology, 30 (10), 1638-1646. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdz271
2019
Journal Article
Phenotypic characterization of circulating lung cancer cells for clinically actionable targets
Kulasinghe, Arutha, Kapeleris, Joanna, Cooper, Carolina, Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi, O’Byrne, Kenneth and Punyadeera, Chamindie (2019). Phenotypic characterization of circulating lung cancer cells for clinically actionable targets. Cancers, 11 (3) 380, 380. doi: 10.3390/cancers11030380
2018
Journal Article
Examining the contribution of smoking and HPV towards the etiology of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma using high-throughput sequencing: a prospective observational study
Zammit, Andrew P., Sinha, Rohit, Cooper, Caroline L., Perry, Christopher F. L., Frazer, Ian H. and Tuong, Zewen K. (2018). Examining the contribution of smoking and HPV towards the etiology of oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma using high-throughput sequencing: a prospective observational study. PLoS One, 13 (10) e0205406, e0205406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205406
2018
Journal Article
Targeting stromal remodeling and cancer stem cell plasticity overcomes chemoresistance in triple negative breast cancer
Cazet, Aurélie S., Hui, Mun N., Elsworth, Benjamin L., Wu, Sunny Z., Roden, Daniel, Chan, Chia-Ling, Skhinas, Joanna N., Collot, Raphaël, Yang, Jessica, Harvey, Kate, Johan, M Zahied, Cooper, Caroline, Nair, Radhika, Herrmann, David, McFarland, Andrea, Deng, Niantao, Ruiz-Borrego, Manuel, Rojo, Federico, Trigo, José M., Bezares, Susana, Caballero, Rosalía, Lim, Elgene, Timpson, Paul, O'Toole, Sandra, Watkins, D. Neil, Cox, Thomas R., Samuel, Michael S., Martín, Miguel and Swarbrick, Alexander (2018). Targeting stromal remodeling and cancer stem cell plasticity overcomes chemoresistance in triple negative breast cancer. Nature communications, 9 (1) 2897, 2897. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05220-6
2018
Journal Article
CIC-rearranged sarcoma of the pleura: an unreported primary site, expanding the anatomical distribution of an emerging entity
Wilkinson, Lisa, Coucher, John, Murphy, Michelle, Joubert, Warren and Cooper, Caroline (2018). CIC-rearranged sarcoma of the pleura: an unreported primary site, expanding the anatomical distribution of an emerging entity. Pathology, 50 (4), 469-472. doi: 10.1016/j.pathol.2017.11.092
2018
Journal Article
Punch ‘scoring’: a technique that facilitates melanoma diagnosis of clinically suspicious pigmented lesions
Grogan, Judith, Cooper, Caroline L., Dodds, Tristan J., Guitera, Pascale, Menzies, Scott W. and Scolyer, Richard A. (2018). Punch ‘scoring’: a technique that facilitates melanoma diagnosis of clinically suspicious pigmented lesions. Histopathology, 72 (2), 294-304. doi: 10.1111/his.13342
2017
Journal Article
Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer
Balachandran, Vinod P., Łuksza, Marta, Zhao, Julia N., Makarov, Vladimir, Moral, John Alec, Remark, Romain, Herbst, Brian, Askan, Gokce, Bhanot, Umesh, Senbabaoglu, Yasin, Wells, Daniel K., Cary, Charles Ian Ormsby, Grbovic-Huezo, Olivera, Attiyeh, Marc, Medina, Benjamin, Zhang, Jennifer, Loo, Jennifer, Saglimbeni, Joseph, Abu-Akeel, Mohsen, Zappasodi, Roberta, Riaz, Nadeem, Smoragiewicz, Martin, Larkin Kelley, Z., Basturk, Olca, Gönen, Mithat, Levine, Arnold J., Allen, Peter J., Fearon, Douglas T., Merad, Miriam ... Bassi, Claudio (2017). Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer. Nature, 551 (7681), 512-516. doi: 10.1038/nature24462
2017
Journal Article
Pulmonary schistosomiasis mimicking IgG4-related lung disease
Baird, Timothy, Cooper, Caroline L., Wong, Richard, Runnegar, Naomi and Keir, Gregory (2017). Pulmonary schistosomiasis mimicking IgG4-related lung disease. Respirology Case Reports, 6 (1) e00276, e00276. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.276
2017
Journal Article
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided, through-the-needle forceps biopsy in the assessment of an incidental large pancreatic cystic lesion with prior inconclusive fine-needle aspiration
Huelsen, Alexander, Cooper, Caroline, Saad, Nivene and Gupta, Saurabh (2017). Endoscopic ultrasound-guided, through-the-needle forceps biopsy in the assessment of an incidental large pancreatic cystic lesion with prior inconclusive fine-needle aspiration. Endoscopy, 49 (S 01), E109-E110. doi: 10.1055/s-0043-100217
2016
Journal Article
Programmed death ligand 1 expression in triple-negative breast cancer is associated with tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and improved outcome
Beckers, Rhiannon K, Selinger, Christina I, Vilain, Ricardo, Madore, Jason, Wilmott, James S, Harvey, Kate, Holliday, Anne, Cooper, Caroline L, Robbins, Elizabeth, Gillett, David, Kennedy, Catherine W, Gluch, Laurence, Carmalt, Hugh, Mak, Cindy, Warrier, Sanjay, Gee, Harriet E, Chan, Charles, McLean, Anna, Walker, Emily, McNeil, Catriona M, Beith, Jane M, Swarbrick, Alexander, Scolyer, Richard A and O'Toole, Sandra A (2016). Programmed death ligand 1 expression in triple-negative breast cancer is associated with tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and improved outcome. Histopathology, 69 (1), 25-34. doi: 10.1111/his.12904
2015
Journal Article
MicroRNA-related DNA repair/cell-cycle genes independently associated with relapse after radiation therapy for early breast cancer
Gee, Harriet E., Buffa, Francesca M., Harris, Adrian L., Toohey, Joanne M., Carroll, Susan L., Cooper, Caroline L., Beith, Jane, McNeil, Catriona, Carmalt, Hugh, Mak, Cindy, Warrier, Sanjay, Holliday, Anne, Selinger, Christina, Beckers, Rhiannon, Kennedy, Catherine, Graham, Peter, Swarbrick, Alexander, Millar, Ewan K.A., O'Toole, Sandra A. and Molloy, Timothy (2015). MicroRNA-related DNA repair/cell-cycle genes independently associated with relapse after radiation therapy for early breast cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 93 (5), 1104-1114. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.08.046
2015
Journal Article
Cell cycle marker expression in benign and malignant intraductal papillary lesions of the breast
Loh, Seow Foong, Cooper, Caroline, Selinger, Christina I., Barnes, Elizabeth H., Chan, Charles, Carmalt, Hugh, West, Richard, Gluch, Laurence, Beith, Jane M., Caldon, C Elizabeth and O'Toole, Sandra (2015). Cell cycle marker expression in benign and malignant intraductal papillary lesions of the breast. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 68 (3), 187-191. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202331
2014
Journal Article
A role for everolimus in post-transplant encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: first case report
Sud, Rahul, Garry, Lorraine, Spicer, Stephen T.imothy, Allen, Richard D. M, Eris, Josette M., Wyburn, Kate, Verran, Deborah, Cooper, Caroline L.ouise and Chadban, Steve (2014). A role for everolimus in post-transplant encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: first case report. Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.), 19, 27-30. doi: 10.1111/nep.12196
2013
Journal Article
A quantitative approach to histopathological dissection of elastin-related disorders using multiphoton microscopy
Tong, P. L., Qin, J., Cooper, C. L., Lowe, P. M., Murrell, D. F., Kossard, S., Ng, L. G., Roediger, B., Weninger, W. and Haass, N. K. (2013). A quantitative approach to histopathological dissection of elastin-related disorders using multiphoton microscopy. British Journal of Dermatology, 169 (4), 869-879. doi: 10.1111/bjd.12430
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