Sarah Cao<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"Research](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" "\\"Sarah")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Medical Student<\/h2>\n
I am a final-year medical student at UQ, a research lover, who is aspiring to be a clinician-scientist focusing on cancer in reproductive-aged women.<\/p>\n
What inspired you to focus on pregnancy related breast cancer studies?<\/p>\n
Since my late mum was diagnosed with cancer, I understood the emotional and physical hardships of being a cancer patient caregiver. When I was diagnosed with pregnancy-associated cancer 4 days postpartum at the age of 30, my lived experience as a patient and survivor further strengthened my passion to provide cancer care to women in reproductive ages.<\/p>\n
What are you currently focusing on?<\/p>\n
We are studying Queensland women who experienced cancer and\/or pregnancy from 2007 to 2022. We are comparing the tumor pathological and genomic characteristics, incidence rate, survival outcomes, pregnancy outcomes and patient characteristics of pregnancy associated cancers and non-pregnancy associated cancers.<\/p>\n
What future directions do you hope to explore in your research?<\/p>\n
Working with charities, we are looking at doing qualitative interviews with PAC consumers about their self-identified early symptoms, risk factors, impacts, and barriers in seeking a diagnosis. We are also looking at doing qualitative interviews with general practitioners and obstetricians about their self-identified knowledge gaps. Additionally, we are collaborating with basic science researchers to understand pregnancy-associated cancer biology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medical Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2311,"menu_order":4005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[39],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-research-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Research](\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2025\/05\/Sarah-Cao-251x300.jpeg\" "\\"Sarah")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Medical Student<\/h2>\n
I am a final-year medical student at UQ, a research lover, who is aspiring to be a clinician-scientist focusing on cancer in reproductive-aged women.<\/p>\n
What inspired you to focus on pregnancy related breast cancer studies?<\/p>\n
Since my late mum was diagnosed with cancer, I understood the emotional and physical hardships of being a cancer patient caregiver. When I was diagnosed with pregnancy-associated cancer 4 days postpartum at the age of 30, my lived experience as a patient and survivor further strengthened my passion to provide cancer care to women in reproductive ages.<\/p>\n
What are you currently focusing on?<\/p>\n
We are studying Queensland women who experienced cancer and\/or pregnancy from 2007 to 2022. We are comparing the tumor pathological and genomic characteristics, incidence rate, survival outcomes, pregnancy outcomes and patient characteristics of pregnancy associated cancers and non-pregnancy associated cancers.<\/p>\n
What future directions do you hope to explore in your research?<\/p>\n
Working with charities, we are looking at doing qualitative interviews with PAC consumers about their self-identified early symptoms, risk factors, impacts, and barriers in seeking a diagnosis. We are also looking at doing qualitative interviews with general practitioners and obstetricians about their self-identified knowledge gaps. Additionally, we are collaborating with basic science researchers to understand pregnancy-associated cancer biology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Medical Student<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2311,"menu_order":4005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[39],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-research-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2310\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}