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Dr. Sharon O'Toole

Snr Experimental Officer (Obstetrics)
Senior Research Fellow (Histopathology)
 (3531896) 2106
COOMBE WOMENS HOSPITAL
      
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Dr. Sharon O'Toole

Snr Experimental Officer (Obstetrics)
COOMBE WOMENS HOSPITAL

 shotoole@tcd.ie

 3531896 2116

Senior Research Fellow (Histopathology)

 (3531896) 2106


Sharon O'Toole is a senior research fellow in Trinity College Dublin working in the area of ovarian cancer. She qualified with a BSc Hons in UCG in 1994 and then completed an MSc Biotechnology in 1996. Having worked in industry she then returned to research and completed a PhD in Trinity College in 2003. She has gained enormous experience in the area of ovarian cancer and has played a major role in the development of studies in gynaecological cancer. She was instrumental in establishing the DISCOVARY consortium which is a multidisciplinary and trans- institutional consortium dedicated to addressing the problems of ovarian and uterine cancer. The consortium manages the largest ovarian cancer bioresource in the country. The consortium has now merged to form INNOVATION- the Irish National Network for Ovarian Cancer Collaboration which has brought together the medical, research and charity organisations involved in ovarian cancer in Ireland. Her research interests centre around diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and understanding the fundamental biology of the metastatic cascade and circulating tumour cells. She has been successful in identifying diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for ovarian cancer and her ultimate aim is to translate these into the clinic. She has presented at both national and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. She works closely with the 3 ovarian cancer charities in Ireland whose mission is to improve outcomes for ovarian cancer in Ireland. She was part of the organising committee of the first World Ovarian Cancer Day on May 8th in 2013 and this has now become an annual event.
  Gynaecology oncology   Obstetrics/Gynecology   Oestregens in age related urogenital diseases
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Member of European Association for Cancer Research. Member of Irish Association for Cancer Research
-Co-ordinator of INNOVATION- the Irish National Network for Ovarian Cancer Collaboration.
-Executive Committee of the Irish Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ISGO)
-Member of the European Society for Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO)
-Member of Cancer Trials Ireland
Faye Lewis, Mark P. Ward, Feras Abu Saadeh, John O"Leary, Sharon O"Toole, Reply to: In Reference to "A Pilot Study Evaluating the Feasibility of Enriching and Detecting Circulating Tumour Cells from Peripheral and Ovarian Veins in Rare Epithelial Ovarian Carcinomas", European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2025, p110206 - 110206, p110206-110206 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Azzopardi, Miriam J. and Calleja-Agius, Jean and Calleja, Neville and Galea, Darren and Ellul, Bridget and Micallef, Rita and O'Toole, Sharon A. and Savona-Ventura, Charles, Rare gynaecological cancers in Malta â€" An analysis of incidence between 2010 and 2021, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 51, (4), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Toole, Sharon and Tzortzatou, Olga and Casati, Sara and Beirne, James P. and Savona-Ventura, Charles and Azzopardi, Miriam J. and Micallef, Rita and Calleja-Agius, Jean and Ellul, Bridget, Biobanking rare gynaecological tumours â€" How harmonised is data collection?, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 51, (4), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Batog WI, Norris L, O'Toole S, Maguire P, O'Gorman C, Kelly M, Saadeh FA., Identification of groin node metastasis in squamous cell vulval cancer using preoperative [<sup>18</sup>F] FDG-PET/CT. Can unnecessary lymphadenectomy be prevented?, European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology, 310, 2025, p113959 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
LEWIS, F., WARD, M. P., SAADEH, F. A., O'GORMAN, C., MAGUIRE, P. J., BEIRNE, J. P., KAMRAN, W., IBRAHIM, E., NORRIS, L., KELLY, T., HURLEY, S., HENDERSON, B., KANJUGA, M., O'DRISCOLL, L., GATELY, K., ONER, E., SAINI, V. M., CADOO, K., MARTIN, C., O'LEARY, J. J. & O'TOOLE, S. A., A pilot study evaluating the feasibility of enriching and detecting circulating tumour cells from peripheral and ovarian veins in rare epithelial ovarian carcinomas, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ward MP, Lewis F, O'Gorman C, Norris LA, Lochrin SE, Kane LE, Kelly TE, Mohamed BM, Ramesh A, O'Connor R, Kilgour E, Henderson B, Kanjuga M, Hurley S, Edgerton L, Tewari P, Gately K, O'Driscoll L, Hokamp K, Cashman S, McManus G, Brooks DA, Selemidis S, Coleman N, Kennedy J, Kamran W, Beirne JP, Maguire P, Abu Saadeh F, Cadoo K, Martin CM, O'Leary JJ, O'Toole SA., Circulating tumour cells are a prognostic indicator in advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer and are associated with platelets and immune cells following dissemination., British journal of cancer, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ciara S. McNevin, Kathleen R. Murphy, Rachel Dillion, Pierre Murchan, Aisling Hennessy, Órla Fitzpatrick, Megan O"Shaughnessy, Sharon O"Toole, Georgia Thordi, Paul Smyth, Cathal Ó"Brien, Emer Atkinson, Anne"Marie Baird, Steven G. Gray, Brendan Doyle, Niamh Coleman, Stephen P. Finn, Roshni Deepa Deepa kalachand, Karen A. Cadoo, Prevalence Of BRCA1/2 In An Ovarian Cancer Cohort: Outcomes From A Nationwide Testing Program, International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 35, (2), 2025, p101151 - 101151, p101151-101151 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Lea Schäfer, Romina Silva, Gavin Stewart, Sharon O"Toole, Antoinette S. Perry, Abstract A047: Investigating NKAPL, a potential marker for platinum resistance, in high-grade serous ovarian cancer, 85, (18_Supplement), 2025, ppA047 - A047, ppA047-A047 , Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
Faye Lewis, Mark P. Ward, Feras Abu Saadeh, Catherine O"Gorman, Patrick Maguire, James Beirne, Waseem Kamran, Elzahra Ibrahim, Rebecca Hunter, Sinéad Hurley, Lucy Norris, Brian E. Henderson, Irene Narinda, Marika Kanjuga, Lorraine O"Driscoll, Kathy Gately, Volga M. Saini, Karen A. Cadoo, Cara Martin, John O"Leary, Sharon O"Toole, Abstract B041: Circulating tumor cells are associated with a shorter disease-free interval in patients with advanced high-grade serous carcinoma undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by interval cytoreductive surgery, 85, (18_Supplement), 2025, ppB041 - B041, ppB041-B041 , Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ciara S. McNevin, Rachel Dillion, Simon J. Hollingsworth, Faye Lewis, Sinéad Hurley, Lucy Norris, Mark P. Ward, Vicky Donachie, Patrick Maguire, Scheryll Alken, Niamh Coleman, Waseem Kamran, Feras Abu Saadeh, Catherine O"Gorman, Deborah Donnell, Tom D"Arcy, John O"Leary, Stephen P. Finn, Sharon O"Toole, Karen A. Cadoo, Genetics And Survival Outcomes In Young-Onset Ovarian Cancer: Insights From An 18-Year Tertiary Referral Center Study, 35, (2), 2025, pp100350 - 100350, pp100350-100350 , Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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O'Leary JJ, White C, Spillane C, Naik, P, O'Brien, R, Reynolds, S, Pham, T, Pilkington, L, Sharkey Ochoa, I, Bolger, N, Barry O'Crowley, J, Tewari, P, O'Toole, S, Sweeney, M, Keegan, H, Normand, C, Sharp, L, Flannelly, G, Martin, CM. , Cervical screening: A new way forward (tests of risk and tests of disease) [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]., HRB Open Research, 1, (3), 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ibrahim N, Norris L, O'Toole S, McHugh T, Gleeson N, Does extended thromboprophylaxis help reduce the incidence of venous thromboembolism in gynaecological cancer patients?, Thrombosis Research, 7th Internation Conference onal Thrombosis & Hemostatis Issues in Cancer,, Bergamo Italy, May 2014, edited by A Falanga, B. Brenner, F, Rickles , 133, (Suppl 2), Elsevier, 2014, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED
CM Martin, K Astbury, R Henfrey, O Sheils, M Gallagher, C Heffron, C Logan, SA O'Toole, JJ O'Leary, miRNA expression signatures in cervical cancer, Journal of RNAi and Gene Silencing, RNAi2006: Advances in RNA Interference Research, St Anne's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, March 2006, 2, (2), 2006, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED
Laios A, O'Toole SA, Sheppard BL, Gleeson NC, D'Arcy T, McGuinness EPJ, Ring M, Sheils O, Smyth P, O'Leary JJ., Recurrent ovarian cancer cDNA signatures., Centenary Meeting of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland , Manchester, July 2006, 2006, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED
Laios A, O'Toole SA, Sheppard BL, Gleeson NC, D'Arcy T, McGuinness EPJ, Ring M, Sheils O, O'Leary JJ. (ed.), Irish Association for Cancer Research, Galway, Ireland, March 2006, 2006, Proceedings of a Conference, PRESENTED
O'Toole SA, Sheppard BL, D'Arcy T, Mc Guinness EPJ, Gleeson NC, Bonnar J, Sheils O, O'Leary JJ. , Multidrug resistance gene only plays a role in some ovarian cancers, Irish Association for Cancer Research, Kilkenny, Ireland, March 2005, 2005, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED
O'Toole SA, Sheppard BL, D'Arcy T, Mc Guinness EPJ, Gleeson NC, Bonnar J, Sheils O, O'Leary JJ. , Angiogenesis in Ovarian Cancer does not predict response to chemotherapy., Irish Association for Cancer Research, Kilkenny, Ireland, March 2005, 2005, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED
O'Toole SA, Laios A, Sheppard BL, Gleeson NC, D'Arcy T, Mc Guinness EPJ, Bonnar J, Sheils O, O'Leary JJ. , Potential Predictors of Chemotherapy Response in Ovarian Cancer., Irish gynaecological oncology society, Belfast, 2005, 2005, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED
O'Toole SA, Laios A, Sheppard BL, Gleeson NC, D'Arcy T, Mc Guinness EPJ, Bonnar J, Sheils O, O'Leary JJ. , Angiogenesis markers in ovarian cancer act as prognostic markers but not indicators of chemotherapy response, Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Newcastle, UK, July 2005, 2005, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED
O'Toole S, Laios A, Sheppard B, Smyth P, O'Regan E, Sheils O, O'Leary J. , Expression profiling of endometrial stromal cells treated with estradiol and phytoestrogens. , 20th European Congress of Pathology, Paris, Sept 2005, 2005, Meeting Abstract, PRESENTED

  


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-Early diagnostics in ovarian cancer -Chemoresistance in ovarian cancer Chemosensitivity/Resistance testing of malignant gynaecological tumours -Examination of Fibrinolytic systems of malignant gynaecological tumours -Examination of angiogenesis in ovarian cancers. -Examination of multidrug resistance genes in gynaecological tumours. -Estrogen regulated genes in endometrial cancer. -PhytoSERMs and Endometrial Cancer