Uncategorized ← Alison Pearce

Work, daily activities and leisure after cancer

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Apr

26

2022

As well as being less likely to work, cancer survivors of working age were more likely to be limited in their daily activities and leisure compared to people who had not had cancer, our latest research finds. Similarly, older cancer survivors (aged over 65) were also more likely to be limited in their leisure pursuits compared ...

What I learned during #AcWriMo 2019

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Dec

20

2019

I started #AcWriMo 2019 with all the best of intentions, but life really did get in the way this year. If you don’t know about Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo), it was started by PhD2Published, but is now a world wide gathering in November each year of academics wanting a writing boost. There’s more detail in ...

Asking about understanding in choice surveys

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Dec

4

2019

Half of health researchers doing choice surveys (known as discrete choice experiments) ask respondents if they understood the survey. However, only around half of these go on to analyse the answers or use the results. This variation in practice was identified in a survey of health researchers, published recently in the journal Value in Health. ...

Transitioning from Early-Career Researcher to Mid-Career Researcher

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Oct

22

2019

Recently I’ve been thinking about the transition from being an early-career researcher (ECR) to a mid-career researcher (MCR). Six months ago I finished my UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which funded me for three years at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation. The idea of these fellowships is to transition early career researchers into ...

11 questions to help you work with a health economist

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Mar

13

2019

As part of developing the ‘Integrating Health Economics In Clinical Research’ Workshop held in Vancouver in Feb 2019, we decided it would be useful to have a session on ‘how to work with a health economist’. This was because many of us had the experience of being contacted at the last minute to ‘add a ...

Cancer deaths to cost Ireland €73 billion over the next 20 years

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Oct

27

2016

A paper I worked on at the National Cancer Registry Ireland has been published in the journal BMC Cancer. Together with my collaborators, we estimated that deaths from cancer over the next 20 years will cost the Irish economy €73 billion in lost productivity. When people die from cancer, society loses their contribution to the ...

Is prostate cancer follow-up by GPs more efficient than hospital based care?

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Aug

6

2015

After treatment for prostate cancer, men have ongoing follow-up to monitor for the cancer returning, and to manage any treatment side effects. Traditionally, this follow-up is done by specialist clinicians in the hospital setting, but the growing number of prostate cancer survivors means this is not sustainable. Evidence suggests that follow-up by a GP, instead ...

Research into costs of cancer follow-up wins MASCC conference award

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Jul

1

2015

Dr Alison Pearce has won a Young Investigator of the Year Award at the Annual Meeting on Supportive Care in Cancer, hosted by the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and the International Society of Oral Oncology (ISOO). The Young Investigator of the Year Awards recognise outstanding young investigators’ research accomplishments. The award was ...

Returning to work after head and neck cancer

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Jul

29

2014

A new paper published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship by researchers at the National Cancer Registry investigates the patterns of return to work in people with head and neck cancer. The study looked at people diagnosed with head and neck cancer who had been working at the time of diagnosis. It found that while ...

Article published in The Conversation

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May

28

2014

Cancer rates are set to double in Ireland by 2040 – here’s why By Alison Pearce, National Cancer Registry Ireland and Harry Comber, National Cancer Registry Ireland The latest projections from the National Cancer Registry show that the number of new cancer cases being diagnosed each year in Ireland is expected to double by 2040. ...