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Professor Sara Faithfull

Adjunct Professor (Radiation Therapy)
      
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Professor Sara Faithfull

Adjunct Professor (Radiation Therapy)

 faithfus@tcd.ie

 


Prof Sara Faithfull is Adjunct Professor in the Discipline of Radiation Therapy in the School of Medicine with a role to support PhD supervision, teaching and research in relation to cancer treatment late effects, survivorship and supportive care. She trained as a cancer nurse in 1986 at the Royal Marsden Hospital (UK) and worked within Oncology in radiotherapy, urology and nurse education. She was the recipient of the Smith and Nephew Nursing fellowship in 1991 and received a Cancer Research UK Nursing Research Fellowship in 1994 for research on supportive care in radiotherapy. Recently she retired from the University of Surrey as a clinical academic in nursing and research impact champion for health sciences. She was a board member of the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONs) and was the EONs president from 2008-10. She is currently a nominated member of the European Academy of Cancer Scientists and has authored more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals. She has fulfilled many roles over her clinical academic career; supporting research development within the Living with and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) portfolio for the National Cancer Research Institute (UK) as well medical adviser for the Pelvic Radiation Disease Association. She has fulfilled multiple research projects as principal investigator notably rehabilitation post radiotherapy for prostate cancer urinary symptoms (SMaRT-RCT), evaluated exercise and diet interventions for men with prostate cancer who had cardiac risk factors (True NTH exercise and diet UK) and investigated chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy in people treated for colorectal cancer (SCOT CIPN study). Plus has international collaboration with a Horizon 2020 RISE project (INEXCA). Prof Faithfull has supervised numerous postgraduate student projects.
Details Date From Date To
The European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)
Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
Royal College of Nursing, UK
Bird J, Faithfull S., Mitigating late effects in cancer survivors: harnessing personalised medicine and new models of care., Current opinion in supportive and palliative care, 18, (1), 2024, p27-29 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Faithfull S, Greenfield D., Cancer survivor late-effects, chronic health problems after cancer treatment: what's the evidence from population and registry data and where are the gaps?, Current opinion in supportive and palliative care, 18, (1), 2024, p55-64 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Alberti P, Argyriou AA, Bruna J, Damaj MI, Faithfull S, Harding A, Hoke A, Knoerl R, Kolb N, Li T, Park SB, Staff NP, Tamburin S, Thomas S, Smith EL., Considerations for establishing and maintaining international research collaboration: the example of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity (CIPN)-a white paper., Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 32, (2), 2024, p117 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Maeve Kearney, Gemma Farmer, Sara Faithfull, Scheryll Alken,Michelle Leech, Knowledge Support for Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Survivors of Lymphoma in Ireland (KAYAC), Irish Association for Cancer Research 60th Anniversary Satellite Meeting Agenda, RCSI, Dublin, 26th February 2024, 2024, Poster, PUBLISHED
Maeve Kearney,Michelle Leech Sara Faithfull Gemma Farme, KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT FOR ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVORS OF LYMPHOMA IN IRELAND (KAYAC), MASCC/AFSOS/ISOO 2024 Annual Meeting, Lille, France, 27-29th June, 2024, Poster, PUBLISHED
Maeve Kearney, Gemma Farmer, Sara Faithfull, Scheryll Alken, Michelle Leech, Knowledge Support for Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Survivors of Lymphoma in Ireland (KAYAC), Trinity St James"s Cancer Institute Christmas Research Blitz 2023 Agenda, Trinity St James's Cancer Institute, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin 8, D08 W9RT, 08/12/23, 2023, Poster, PUBLISHED
Burke G, Faithfull S, Probst H., Radiation induced skin reactions during and following radiotherapy: A systematic review of interventions., Radiography (London, England : 1995), 28, (1), 2022, p232-239 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Sara Faithfull, Agnieszka Lemanska, Karen Poole, Jonathan Aning, Ralph Manders, John Marshall, John Saxton, Lauren Turner, Bruce Griffin, Obesity and low levels of physical activity impact on cardiopulmonary fitness in older men after treatment for prostate cancer, European Journal of Cancer Care, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Vehviläinen-Julkunen K, Turpeinen S, Kvist T, Ryden-Kortelainen M, Nelimarkka S, Enshaeifar S, Faithfull S, for INEXCA Consortium., Experience of Ambulatory Cancer Care: Understanding Patients' Perspectives of Quality Using Sentiment Analysis., Cancer nursing, 44, (6), 2021, pE331-E338 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jeffreys N, Dambha-Miller H, Fan X, Ferreira F, Liyanage H, Sherlock J, Williams J, Rice R, Stunt A, Faithfull S, Gatenby P, Lemanska A, de Lusignan S., Using Primary Care Data to Report Real-World Pancreatic Cancer Survival and Symptomatology., Studies in health technology and informatics, 281, 2021, p168-172 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Award Date
Cancer Research UK Nursing Research fellowship 1994-1999
Smith and Nephew Fellowship 1991-1992
RMH Bob Tiffany Lecture 2011
Milly L. Haagedoorn Lecture European Association of Cancer Education 2006
Research interests are in developing and evaluating supportive care and interventions to address survivorship pathways and the long term consequences of cancer treatment. Current research is exploring prevalence of cardiovascular disease after cancer treatment in the UK HORIZONs cancer survivor cohort study, exploring association of co-morbidities with cancer treatment, social deprivation, HRQOL and lifestyle factors.