Elisavet Syriopoulou

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About me

I am a biostatistician working within the area of survival analysis and in particular on the development and application of statistical methods for cancer registry data. My research focuses on statistical methods for understanding the underlying determinants that drive cancer inequalities in terms of survival as well as methods for improving communication of complex cancer statistics. This involves extensions of causal mediation analysis and developments in life expectancy measures for summarising the cancer prognosis.

Teaching

I have been involved in teaching and course organising of: - Survival analysis (Biostat III), within the Doctoral Programme in Epidemiology - Biostatistics, Masters programme for Molecular Techniques in the Life Sciences - Statistical Methods for Population-based Cancer Survival, a 1-week course as part of the Summer School on Modern Methods in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Treviso, Italy - Cancer epidemiology, Masters programme for Public Health Epidemiology - Causal inference and competing events lectures

Articles

Article: JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH. 2024;:jech-2024-221916

Income disparities in loss in life expectancy after colon and rectal cancers: a Swedish register-based study.

Syriopoulou E; Osterman E; Miething A; Nordenvall C; Andersson TM-L
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2024;199:113572

Despite multi-disciplinary team discussions the socioeconomic disparities persist in the oncological treatment of non-metastasized colorectal cancer.

Osterman E; Syriopoulou E; Martling A; Andersson TM-L; Nordenvall C
Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY. 2024;:S0190-9622(24)00056-2

Loss in life expectancy in patients with stage II-III cutaneous melanoma in Sweden: A population-based cohort study.

Vikström S; Syriopoulou E; Andersson TM-L; Eriksson H
Article: HAEMATOLOGICA. 2024

Prior cancer and risk of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance: a population-based study in Iceland and Sweden.

Rögnvaldsson S; Thorsteinsdóttir S; Syriopoulou E; Sverrisdottir I; Turesson I; Eythorsson E; Oskarsson JT; Long TE; Vidarsson B; Onundarson PT; Agnarsson BA; Sigurdardottir M; Olafsson I; Thorsteinsdottir I; Aspelund T; Gislason GK; Olafsson A; Sigurdsson JK; Hultcrantz M; Durie BGM; Harding S; Bjorkholm M; Landgren O; Love TJ; Kristinsson SY
Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2022;127(10):1808-1815

Standardised survival probabilities: a useful and informative tool for reporting regression models for survival data.

Syriopoulou E; Wästerlid T; Lambert PC; Andersson TM-L
Article: BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. 2022;22(1):226

Estimating causal effects in the presence of competing events using regression standardisation with the Stata command standsurv.

Syriopoulou E; Mozumder SI; Rutherford MJ; Lambert PC
Article: BREAST CANCER RESEARCH. 2022;24(1):15

Assessing lead time bias due to mammography screening on estimates of loss in life expectancy.

Syriopoulou E; Gasparini A; Humphreys K; Andersson TM-L
Article: STATISTICS IN MEDICINE. 2021;40(27):6069-6092

Inverse probability weighting and doubly robust standardization in the relative survival framework.

Syriopoulou E; Rutherford MJ; Lambert PC
Article: BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. 2021;21(1):84

Direct modelling of age standardized marginal relative survival through incorporation of time-dependent weights.

Lambert PC; Syriopoulou E; Rutherford MR
Article: BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL. 2021;63(2):341-353

Understanding disparities in cancer prognosis: An extension of mediation analysis to the relative survival framework.

Syriopoulou E; Rutherford MJ; Lambert PC
Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2020;49(2):619-628

Marginal measures and causal effects using the relative survival framework.

Syriopoulou E; Rutherford MJ; Lambert PC
Article: BREAST. 2019;45:75-81

Potential gain in life years for Swedish women with breast cancer if stage and survival differences between education groups could be eliminated - Three what-if scenarios.

Bower H; Andersson TM-L; Syriopoulou E; Rutherford MJ; Lambe M; Ahlgren J; Dickman PW; Lambert PC
Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2019;120(11):1052-1058

Understanding the impact of socioeconomic differences in colorectal cancer survival: potential gain in life-years.

Syriopoulou E; Morris E; Finan PJ; Lambert PC; Rutherford MJ
Article: CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2019;58:17-24

Robustness of individual and marginal model-based estimates: A sensitivity analysis of flexible parametric models.

Syriopoulou E; Mozumder SI; Rutherford MJ; Lambert PC
Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2017;117(9):1419-1426

Estimating the impact of a cancer diagnosis on life expectancy by socio-economic group for a range of cancer types in England.

Syriopoulou E; Bower H; Andersson TM-L; Lambert PC; Rutherford MJ
Article: STATISTICS IN MEDICINE. 2017;36(17):2669-2681

Causal inference in survival analysis using pseudo-observations.

Andersen PK; Syriopoulou E; Parner ET

Grants

Extensions and applications of loss in life expectancy for cancer patients

Swedish Research Council

1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026
Inequalities in cancer prognosis across socioeconomic groups and how these arise.

Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare

1 January 2023 - 31 December 2024
Inequalities in cancer prognosis across socioeconomic groups and how these arise

Karolinska Institutet Research Grants 2021-2023

1 January 2022 - 31 December 2023
Improving statistical methods for individualised predictions and understanding population variation in survival for colorectal cancer patients.

NIHR Academy

1 October 2017 - 30 September 2020

Employments

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2029
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2023

Degrees and Education

PhD in Biostatistics, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 2020
MSc in Biostatistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2015
BSc in Mathematics, University of Patras, 2012

Supervisor

Anna Warnqvist, Loss of life expectancy for patients with malignant melanoma, by socioeconomic groups and sex, 2023
Emma Söreskog, 2023

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