Professor Sandi Hayes is a Principal Research Fellow within the School of Public Health, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology and co-leads QUT Improving Health Outcomes for People.
Professor Hayes’ research experience and interests relate to understanding recovery following cancer treatment. Her work has a particular focus on improving understanding of lymphoedema (swelling) caused by cancer treatment, as well as understanding the role of exercise in ‘bridging the gap’ between treatment cessation and the return to ‘normal’ daily lives for cancer survivors.
Professor Hayes currently holds a Cancer Council Queensland Senior Research Fellowship which provides research funding for five years (2014-2018) to improve understanding of cancer survivorship concerns.
Projects
- Exercise and lymphoedema
- Exercise for health: a breast cancer recovery study
- Healthy Living after Cancer
- Pathways to health: a web-delivered physical activity program to assist women surviving breast cancer meet their activity goals
- The ECHO trial: Exercise during CHemotherapy for Ovarian cancer
- The LEGS trial (lymphoedema in gynaecological cancer study)
- The pulling through study: a follow-up (Genetic polymorphisms and risk of secondary lymphoedema after breast cancer: a nested case-control study)