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Nina Afshar

Research Fellow - Cancer Survivorship
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
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Nina Afshar joined the Cancer Health Services Research Unit as a Research Fellow in July 2020. Before joining the CHSR group, she worked at the Department of Health and Human Services in response to COVID-19 pandemic.

Nina completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne and Cancer Council Victoria in 2020, following completion of Master of Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne in 2015. Her doctoral research focused on trends and inequalities in cancer survival in Victoria, Australia, with and emphasis on identifying factors explaining socio-economic inequalities in colon cancer survival using linked population-based health data.

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Displaying the 5 most recent scholarly works by Nina Afshar.

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Differences in cancer survival by remoteness of residence: an analysis of data from a population-based cancer registry

Nina Afshar, Dallas R English, James A Chamberlain, Tony Blakely, Vicky Thursfield, Helen Farrugia, Graham G Giles, Roger L Milne

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cancer Causes & Control

PURPOSE: Cancer survival is generally lower for rural compared with urban residents, but findings have been inconsistent. We aimed..

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Differences in cancer survival by area-level socio-economic disadvantage: A population-based study using cancer registry data

Nina Afshar, Dallas R English, Tony Blakely, Vicky Thursfield, Helen Farrugia, Graham G Giles, Roger L Milne

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Despite overall improvements in cancer survival due to earlier diagnosis and better treatment, socio-economically disadvantaged pe..

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Rural-urban residence and cancer survival in high-income countries: A systematic review

Nina Afshar, Dallas R English, Roger L Milne

Journal article  |  2019  |  Cancer

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Differences in cancer survival by sex: a population-based study using cancer registry data

Nina Afshar, Dallas R English, Vicky Thursfield, Paul L Mitchell, Luc Te Marvelde, Helen Farrugia, Graham G Giles, Roger L Milne

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cancer Causes & Control

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Do Age at Diagnosis, Tumour Thickness and Tumour Site Explain Sex Differences in Melanoma Survival? A Sequential Causal Mediation Analysis Using Cancer Registry Data

N Afshar, SG Dashti, V Thursfield, H Farrugia, GG Giles, RL Milne, DR English

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Global Oncology

Background: Previous research has shown that women diagnosed with melanoma have better survival than their male counterparts, but ..

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Health and Support Services
Oncology and Carcinogenesis
Public Health and Health Services
Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Other Health
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

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Research Fellow - Cancer Survivorship

Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

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Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health

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