Wheater, Dr Matthew

BM MRCP PhD

Specialty

Medical oncology

Sub-specialty

Genitourinary cancers, germ cell tumours, melanoma

Training and education

University of Southampton School of Medicine

Wessex Medical Oncology Specialist Registrar Rotation

Cancer Research UK Clinical Research Fellow

Experience

Dr Wheater has worked for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust since August 2011.

Specialist training in Medical Oncology in Bristol, Southampton and Portsmouth 2004-2011

CRUK Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology 2007-2010

Key achievements

PhD in molecular biology of breast and kidney cancers

Chief investigator for a national chemotherapy trial for relapsed germ cell cancers (Gem-TIP)

Research 

Wheater M, Manners J, Nolan L, Simmonds P, Hayes M, Mead GM; The clinical features and management of testicular germ cell tumours in men older than 60 years. BJU Int. 2011 [Epub ahead of print]

Wheater M, Johnson PW, Blaydes JP; The role of MNK proteins and eIF4E phosphorylation in breast cancer cell proliferation and survival. Cancer Biol Ther. 2010; 10 (7) 728-735

Nolan L, Wheater M, Kirby J, Simmonds P, Mead GM; Late relapse (>2 years) on surveillance in non-seminomatous germ cell tumours: predominant seminoma only histology. BJU Int.  2010;106(11):1648-51

Crabb S, Wheater M; Advances in chemotherapy and targeted systemic therapies for urothelial cancer. Current Drug Therapy. 2010;5:17-28

Wheater M, Lowndes S, Johnson PW; Multidisciplinary Treatment of Cancer: Chemotherapy; in Imaging in Oncology 3rd Edition 2010

Wheater M, Bhandari S, Fennell J, Mead G M; Recombinant Factor VIIa in the management of pulmonary haemorrhage associated with metastatic choriocarcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Feb 20;26(6):1008-10