Topics: Colorectal cancer screening, statistical modelling, outcome metrics, epidemiology
Amy Tickle is a postdoctoral researcher with an MSc in Epidemiology from Imperial College London and a PhD in Epidemiology from King’s College London. Her doctoral research was conducted within a cancer screening research group and focused on identifying the best metrics for monitoring progress in early cancer diagnosis. This work involved qualitative methods, such as interviews and focus groups, as well as complex epidemiological analyses using both individual- and aggregate-level data. For her thesis, she largely focused on monitoring and evaluating breast cancer screening programmes.
Following her PhD, Amy worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the Cancer Surveillance Unit at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Her research focused on modelling the impact of risk factor prevention policies on future cancer burden in the Nordic countries as part of the Prevent 2.0 project, in collaboration with Nordic cancer registries and cancer societies.
Amy has joined the Decision Modelling Centre as the postdoctoral researcher on the project “Determining the benefit–harm ratio of risk-based colorectal cancer screening: a mixed-methods study.” The project aims to identify a composite outcome measure to enable comparisons between risk-based and uniform screening strategies. It combines expert and screening participant focus groups, microsimulation modelling using the ASCCA model, and a Delphi study to determine a useful composite outcome measure.