ProfessorMartin Stockler

Professor of Oncology and Clinical Epidemiology

Faculty of Medicine and Health

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Improving survival, quality of life, prognostication, and doctor-patient communication for those affected by cancer, particularly genitourinary (prostate, testis, kidney, bladder), gynaecologic (ovary, endometrium, cervix), and thoracic (lung and mesothelioma). Clinical trials, meta-analaysis, survival analysis, multivariable methods, evidence based medicine, biostatistics.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Towards a Precision Cancer Platform for Aboriginal Health
    Cancer Australia1 Jul 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    P3BEP Trial - Accelerating First-Line Chemotherapy to Improve Cure Rates for Advanced Germ Cell Tumours - An Australian-Led, International Randomised Trial
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jul 2024
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Clinical development of a self-amplifying pan-tumour theranostic
    Cancer Institute NSW1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Cancer Research Fund Initiatives (CRFI) - Martin Richard Stockler
    DVC Research1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    SNAC2 Study: multicentre randomised controlled trial of sentinel node biopsy versus axillary clearance in operable breast cancer
    Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital Foundation1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    The ECHO trial: A randomised, controlled trial evaluating the effect of exercise during chemotherapy for ovarian cancer on survival and health resource use
    Cancer Council Queensland1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hayes S,
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    The RACS SNAC2 Trial: A multicentre randomised controlled trial of sentinel node biopsy versus axillary clearance in operable breast cancer
    Waikoto Breast Cancer Research Trust1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    Adjuvant Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy after post-operative pelvic chemoradiation in high risk endometrial cancer: the ADELE study
    Medical Research Future Fund1 Jun 2020 - 31 May 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mileshkin L,
    • Lee Y,
    • Stockler M,
    • Antill Y,
    • Khaw P
  • GRANT
    Oxtox: Can Oxaliplatin dose reduction and neurotoxicity be reduced with ibudilast in people with metastatic colorectal cancer - a phase II randomised study
    Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group1 May 2019
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    BCGMM Trial: Adding mitomycin to BCG as adjuvant intravesical therapy for high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a 2-stage, randomised phase 3 trial
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M,
    • Hayne D,
    • Krieger L,
    • McCombie S,
    • Grummet J
  • GRANT
    Better Outcomes through Innovations in Clinical Trials: from Personalised Medicine to Population Health
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
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    Patient-reported outcomes and treatment preferences in 1,900 men with prostate cancer participating in two international, randomised clinical trials
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Mar 2018 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Mercieca-Bebber R,
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    AUTO-CHECK study: Molecular determinants of autoimmunity and immune related adverse events in advanced cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors
    Cancer Australia1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
    • Nowak AK,
    • Stockler M,
    • Yip D,
    • Mitchell P,
    • Cook M
  • GRANT
    Canadian Cancer Trials Group Operations and Statistics Centre at Queen’s University
    Canada Foundation for Innovation19 Sep 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Dancey J,
    • Bartlett J,
    • Jonker D,
    • Ringash J,
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    Start-Up activities with or without a pilot and definitive randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial or oral cannabinoid-rich THC/CBD cannabis extract for secondary prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
    NSW Health.1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
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    The PEARL trial: Palliative care Early in Advanced Lung cancers
    Cancer Australia1 Jan 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Yoong J,
    • Le B,
    • Nowak AK,
    • Stockler M,
    • Philip J
  • GRANT
    OPTIMUM: Optimising Perioperative Therapy in Muscle invasive Urothelial Malignancy. A phase 3 trial of cisplatin and gemcitabine (CG) vs accelerated MVAC (accMVAC) given before or after cystectomy
    DVC Research1 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M
  • GRANT
    Pain Free TRUS B: A placebo-controlled, randomised trial of methoxyflurane to reduce the discomfort of prostate biopsy
    Cancer Australia1 Jan 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Buchan N,
    • Martin A,
    • Chalasani V,
    • Hayne D,
    • Woo H
  • GRANT
    Technical services of a genomic cancer clinical trial initiative (GCCTI) to develop mutation-specific cancer clinical trials protocols
    Cancer Australia1 Jul 2013
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Accelerating First-Line Chemotherapy to Improve Cure Rates for Advanced Germ Cell Tumours: An Australian-Led, International Randomised Trial
    Cancer Australia1 Jun 2013
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Adding mitomycin C to intravesical BCG for high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a randomised phase 3 trial
    Cancer Australia1 Jun 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Chalasani V,
    • Patel M,
    • Sengupta S,
    • Frydenberg M,
    • Hayne D
  • GRANT
    A pharmacodynamic study of the heat shock protein 90 Hsp90 inhibitor, AUY922, in high-risk, localised prostate cancer
    Cancer Australia1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Stockler M,
    • Horvath L,
    • Tilley W,
    • Butler LM,
    • Stricker P
  • GRANT
    Advancing the evidence base for care and policy in priority health areas
    National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)1 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2017
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Cancer Institute NSW Cooperative Clinical Trial Grant for ANZUP
    Cancer Institute NSW1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Development and operational support for ANZGOG through the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre: A NSW lead initiative.
    Cancer Institute NSW1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Brand A,
    • Sjoquist K,
    • Gebski V,
    • Stockler M,
    • Friedlander M