Professor Sarah Darby
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University of Southern Denmark
Honorary Professor in Radiotherapy
Sarah Darby
PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics
- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit
Sarah C Darby is Professor of Medical Statistics in the University of Oxford. She gained a BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London, followed by an MSc in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her first job was at St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, and she then worked for the National Radiological Protection Board, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima before moving to the University of Oxford in 1984. She was a member of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit until 1999 when she joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit where she leads a programme of work to evaluate the benefits and risks of treatments for cancer.
Key publications
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Lung cancer deaths from indoor radon and the cost effectiveness and potential of policies to reduce them.
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Gray A. et al, (2009), BMJ, 338
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Effect of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery on 10-year recurrence and 15-year breast cancer death: meta-analysis of individual patient data for 10,801 women in 17 randomised trials.
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Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) None. et al, (2011), Lancet, 378, 1707 - 1716
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Risk of ischemic heart disease in women after radiotherapy for breast cancer.
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Darby SC. et al, (2013), N Engl J Med, 368, 987 - 998
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Effect of radiotherapy after mastectomy and axillary surgery on 10-year recurrence and 20-year breast cancer mortality: meta-analysis of individual patient data for 8135 women in 22 randomised trials.
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EBCTCG (Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group) None. et al, (2014), Lancet, 383, 2127 - 2135
Recent publications
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Association of Radiation and Procarbazine Dose With Risk of Colorectal Cancer Among Survivors of Hodgkin Lymphoma.
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Geurts YM. et al, (2023), JAMA Oncol
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Temporal trends in the incidence of malignant and non-malignant primary brain and central nervous system tumors by method of diagnosis in England, 1993-2017
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Ali U. et al, (2023), Neuro-Oncology
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Exposure of the heart and cardiac valves in women irradiated for breast cancer 1970-2009
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Duane F. et al, (2022), Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
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Adjuvant and neoadjuvant breast cancer treatments: A systematic review of their effects on mortality.
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Kerr AJ. et al, (2022), Cancer Treat Rev, 105
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Predicted Risks of Cardiovascular Disease Following Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy in the UK NCRI RAPID Trial of Positron Emission Tomography-Directed Therapy for Early-Stage Hodgkin Lymphoma.
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Cutter DJ. et al, (2021), J Clin Oncol, 39, 3591 - 3601