Professor Sarah Darby
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University of Southern Denmark
Honorary Professor in Radiotherapy
Sarah Darby
PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics
- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit
Sarah C Darby is Professor of Medical Statistics in the University of Oxford. She gained a BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London, followed by an MSc in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her first job was at St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, and she then worked for the National Radiological Protection Board, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima before moving to the University of Oxford in 1984. She was a member of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit until 1999 when she joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit where she leads a programme of work to evaluate the benefits and risks of treatments for cancer.
Recent publications
Causes of excess non-lymphoma death in 58,000 patients with DLBCL diagnosed during 1997-2020 and followed for up to 25 years.
Journal article
Challenger A. et al, (2026), Blood Adv
Histological types of invasive breast cancer in 830,000 women diagnosed in England during 1988-2016.
Journal article
Probert J. et al, (2025), J Pathol Clin Res, 11
Histological types of invasive breast cancer in 830,000 women diagnosed in England during 1988–2016
Conference paper
Probert J. et al, (2025), Journal of Pathology Clinical Research, 11
Second cancers in 475 000 women with early invasive breast cancer diagnosed in England during 1993-2016: population based observational cohort study.
Journal article
McGale P. et al, (2025), BMJ, 390
Estimated Doses to the Heart, Lungs and Oesophagus and Risks From Typical UK Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer During 2015-2023.
Journal article
Holt F. et al, (2024), Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol), 36, e322 - e332
