Current Trainee Projects

Riley and Mary completed a systematic review to evaluate all the current literature relevant to peer support platforms for young adults with cancer. These platforms had to be some form of social media. They defined young adults with an age range of 18 to 40 years old. Important themes from identified papers include the role of moderators,  the significance of family support and the connection of peer support to mental health. This systematic review served as research to better inform the creation of our peer support app meant for young women with breast cancer, Sapphire

Alberta Cancer Research Conference October 25, 2021 Poster Presentation:

‘Use and Impact of Social Media Platforms for Peer Support by Young Adults living with Cancer: A systematic review Protocol.’ Riley Martens, BN Student, Alison Hunter-Smith, MD,FRCS, Mary Hou, MD Student, Susan Isherwood, PhD, May Lynn Quan,MD,MSc FRCSC, & Colleen Cuthbert, PhD.

ASCO Quality Care Symposium September 2021 Poster Presentation:

'Examining social media peer support and improving psychosocial outcomes for young women with breast cancer.' Alison Hunter-Smith, FRCS (Presenter), Colleen Cuthbert BN MN PhD, Karen Fergus PhD C.Psych, Lisa Barbera MC MPA FRCPC, Yvonne Efegoma MBBS MSc, Doris Howell RN PhD FAAN, Susan Isherwood PhD, Nathalie Levasseur MD BSc FRCPC, Riley Martens, Adena Scheer MD MSc FRCSC, Christine Simmons MD MSc FRCPC, Amirrtha Srikantham MD MHSc FRCPC CHE, Claire Temple-Orberle BA MD MSc FRCSC, Yuan Xu MD MSc PhD, Kelly Metcalfe RN PhD FAAN & May Lynn Quan MD MSc FRCSC.

IPOS Aug/ Sept 2022 Conference Oral Presentation:

Use and Impact of Social Media Platforms for Peer Support by Young Adults living with Cancer: A systematic review. Riley Martens, BN Student, Mary Hou, MD Student, Susan Isherwood, PhD, Alison Hunter-Smith, MD,FRCS, May Lynn Quan,MD,MSc FRCSC, & Colleen Cuthbert, PhD.

Interdisciplinary Student Research Showcase: Celebrating the Future | April 27, 2023 | Poster Presentation | Community Health Sciences | The O'Brien Institute of Public Health. 

Use and Impact of Social Media Platforms for Peer Support by Young Adults living with Cancer: A systematic review. Riley Martens, BN Student, Mary Hou, MD Student, Susan Isherwood, PhD, Alison Hunter-Smith, MD,FRCS, May Lynn Quan,MD,MSc FRCSC, & Colleen Cuthbert, PhD.

Manuscript submitted for publication:

‘Use and Impact of Social Media Platforms for Peer Support by Young Adults living with Cancer: A systematic review.’ Riley Martens, BN Student, Mary Hou, MD Student, Susan

Isherwood, PhD, Alison Hunter-Smith, MD,FRCS, May Lynn Quan,MD,MSc FRCSC, & Colleen Cuthbert, PhD.

Sphere has access to a number of databases for use in research projects. They fall into

two broad categories:

• Health Data Assets
• Administrative datasets

All datasets can be linked using a recipient’s Unique Lifetime Identifier (ULI). When releasing data, this identifier is scrambled using an algorithm that preserves the ability to link across datasets.

Basmadjian RB, Kong S, Boyne DJ, Jarada TN, Xu Y, Cheung WY, Lupichuk S, Quan ML, Brenner DR .Developing a Prediction Model for Pathologic Complete Response Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer: A Comparison of Model Building Approaches.JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2022 Feb;6:e2100055. doi: 10.1200/CCI.21.00055. Read