Sarah Darby
Sarah Darby | |
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Born | Sarah C. Darby |
Education | Imperial College London (BSc) University of Birmingham (MSc) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Epidemiology Statistics Cancer |
Institutions | University of Oxford Radcliffe Infirmary St Thomas's Hospital Medical School National Radiological Protection Board Radiation Effects Research Foundation |
Thesis | A Bayesian Approach to Parallel Line Bioassay (1977) |
Website | www |
Sarah C. Darby
Education
Darby studied
Career and research
After her PhD, she worked at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, the National Radiological Protection Board, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima, before moving to the University of Oxford in 1984. Her major funder since then has been Cancer Research UK.[6]
Darby and her team have demonstrated that there is a linear relationship between the dose of radiation delivered incidentally to the heart during
She and her team have also estimated the absolute size of the benefit of radiotherapy to breast cancer patients and their work is enabling comparison of the likely absolute benefit of radiotherapy with its likely absolute risk for individual patients.[6] Therefore, it is now becoming possible to assess which patients can receive standard radiotherapy, which should be considered for advanced techniques, and which should avoid radiotherapy altogether.[6][9]
Other topics that Darby has worked on include estimating the risk of lung cancer from residential radon, the risk of invasive breast cancer after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ, and the risk of cancer after computerised tomography (CT) scans in young people.[6][10]
Awards and honours
Darby was awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze in 1988 by the Royal Statistical Society.[11] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.[6]
References
- ^ "UK Health Protection Agency entry". hpa.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2006-11-27.
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- ^ Sarah Darby publications from Europe PubMed Central
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- ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2019). "Sarah Darby". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.452976.
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- ^ Royal Statistical Society Guy Medal in Bronze, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive