Doctor Paul De Souza

Doctor Paul De Souza

FOUNDATION CHAIR, MEDICAL ONCOLOGY,
School of Medicine

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of New South Wales
  • MBBS University of Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • School of Medicine

Contact

Email:P.DeSouza@uws.edu.au
Extension:6836
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Location:Off Campus
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Publications

Journal Articles

  • Lee, C., Marschner, I., Simes, R., Voysey, M., Egleston, B., Hudes, G. and De Souza, P. (2012), 'Increase in cholesterol predicts survival advantage in renal cell carcinoma patients treated with temsirolimus', Clinical Cancer Research, 9.
  • Huynh, V., Quek, J., De Souza, P. and Stenzel, M. (2012), 'Block copolymer micelles with pendant bifunctional chelator for platinum drugs : effect of spacer length on the viability of tumor cells', Biomacromolecules, 14.
  • De Souza, P. (2012), 'Efficacy of erlotinib in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) : analysis of the Australian subpopulation of the TRUST study ', Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 7.
  • De Souza, P. and De Souza, P. (2012), 'Post-cancer fatigue is not associated with altered cytokine production', Annals of Oncology, 6.
  • De Souza, P. and De Souza, P. (2012), 'Post-cancer fatigue is not associated with altered cytokine production', Annals of Oncology, 6.
  • De Souza, P. (2012), 'Cancer-related fatigue in women with breast cancer : outcomes of a 5-year prospective cohort study', Journal of Clinical Oncology, 8.
  • De Souza, P. (2012), 'Acid degradable cross-linked micelles for the delivery of cisplatin : a comparison with nondegradable cross-linker', Chemistry of Materials, 15.
  • Gu, W., Gaborieau, M., Huynh, V., de Souza, P. and Stenzel, M. (2011), 'Functionalization of microspheres with malonates using Michael Addition as a pathway to create a drug delivery system for platinum drugs for the treatment of liver cancer', Polymer, 10.
  • Li, S., de Souza, P. and de, S. (2011), 'Ras isoprenylation and pAkt inhibition by zoledronic acid and fluvastatin enhances paclitaxel activity in T24 bladder cancer cells', Cancers, 13.
  • Howes, J., de, S., de Souza, P., West, L., Huang, L. and Howes, L. (2011), 'Pharmacokinetics of phenoxodiol, a novel isoflavone, following intravenous administration to patients with advanced cancer', BMC Clinical Pharmacology, .
  • Huynh, V., De, S., de Souza, P. and Stenzel, M. (2011), 'Polymeric micelles with pendant dicarboxylato chelating ligands prepared via a michael addition for cis -platinum drug delivery', Macromolecules, 13.
  • Metharom, E., Galettis, P., Manners, S., Jelinek, M., Liauw, W., De Souza, P., Hoskins, J. and Matthew, L. (2011), 'The pharmacological advantage of prolonged dose rate gemcitabine is restricted to patients with variant alleles of cytidine deaminase c.79A>C', Asia-Pacific Journal of clinical Oncology, 11.
  • Xu, C., Bing, N., Ball, H., Rajgopalan, D., Sternberg, C., Hutson, T., De Souza, P. and Xue, G. (2011), 'Efficacy and Safety of Pazopanib in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma', Journal of clinical oncology, 8.
  • De Souza, P. and Saad, F. (2011), 'Bone health in prostate cancer', Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism, 5.
  • Manners, S., Galettis, P. and De Souza, P. (2011), 'Conditions causing gemcitabine crystallization', Journal of oncology pharmacy practice, 5.

Research

Current Projects

Title:Veridex "CellSearch" machine for detection of circulating tumour cells
Years:2013-01-30 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00021071
UWS Researchers:Paul De Souza
Funding:
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
Title:To Determine the Mechanism of Cell Cycle Re-entry by Quiescent Prostate Cancer Cells
Years:2012-11-15 - 2013-12-15
ID:P00021217
UWS Researchers:Qihan Dong and Paul De Souza
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Previous Projects

Title:A feasiblity study to examine the role of acupuncture to reduce symptoms of lymphoedema post-breast cancer treatment
Years:2012-03-02 - 2013-03-01
ID:P00020587
UWS Researchers:Caroline Smith and Paul De Souza
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:South West Sydney Translational Cancer Research Unit [via Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research]
Years:2012-02-27 - 2013-02-26
ID:P00020939
UWS Researchers:Paul De Souza, Soon Lee and Les Bokey
Funding:
  • Cancer Institute NSW

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:Assessment of the Impact of Dietary Factors in the Control of PSA in Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer
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