Bernard Rachet MD PhD
- CR UK Cancer Survival Group, Room 255a
- LSHTM
- Keppel Street
- London
- WC1E 7HT
- T: +44 (0)20 7927 2647
- F: +44 (0)20 7436 4230
I qualified in medicine at the University of Saint-Etienne, France and worked as a clinician before entering epidemiological research. I completed an MSc in epidemiology in Paris and a PhD in epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France. Before joining the School in July 2002, I spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow in Montréal (Canada) in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique - Institut Armand-Frappier. I worked mainly on cancer risks associated with occupational and environmental exposures, and on developments in methodology.
Affiliation
Teaching
I have been involved in distance learning and various face-to-face courses at the School both on the Medical Statistics MSc and the Epidemiology MSc. Since 2006, I have been co-organiser with Professor Michel Coleman of our annual short course on cancer survival (http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/ncdeu/cancersurvival/course2010/index.htm).
I was project organiser for the distance learning MSc Epidemiology: Principles and Practice until September 2007.
Since June 2008, I am one the two Unit Research Degree Co-ordinators for NCDEU.
Research
My current research is centred on cancer survival, as co-principal investigator (with Michel Coleman) in two successive five-year Cancer Research UK Programme Grants (2005-2015). We are carrying out a wide range of projects to quantify, describe and explain patterns and trends in cancer survival by socio-economic group, geographic area and ethnicity, as well as extending the methodology and tools for survival analysis, in collaboration with many research partners in the UK and around the world. We develop (and maintain on the web) a STATA program for relative survival analysis.
Research areas
- Cancer
- Statistical methods
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Statistics
Other interests
- Cancer Survival
- Deprivation
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Selected publications
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Population-based cancer survival trends in England and Wales up to 2007: an assessment of the NHS cancer plan for England.
Rachet, B.; Maringe, C.; Nur, U.; Quaresma, M.; Shah, A.; Woods, L.M.; Ellis, L.; Walters, S.; Forman, D.; Steward, J.; Coleman, M.P.;
Lancet Oncol, 2009; 10(4):351-69
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Survival from malignant digestive endocrine tumors in England and Wales: A population-based study
Lepage, C.; Rachet, B.; Coleman, M. P.
Gastroenterology, 2007; 132(3):899-904
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Predicted trends in long-term breast cancer survival in England and Wales.
Woods, L.M.; Rachet, B.; Cooper, N.; Coleman, M.P.;
Br J Cancer, 2007; 96(7):1135-8
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Origins of socio-economic inequalities in cancer survival: a review.
Woods, L.M.; Rachet, B.; Coleman, M.P.;
Ann Oncol, 2005; 17(1):5-19
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Hybrid analysis for up-to-date long-term survival rates in cancer registries with delayed recording of incident cases.
Brenner, H.; Rachet, B.;
Eur J Cancer, 2004; 40(16):2494-2501
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A flexible modeling approach to estimating the component effects of smoking behavior on lung cancer.
Rachet, B.; Siemiatycki, J.; Abrahamowicz, M.; Leffondré, K.;
J Clin Epidemiol, 2004; 57(10):1076-85
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Estimating the distribution of lag in the effect of short-term exposures and interventions: adaptation of a non-parametric regression spline model
Rachet, B.; Abrahamowicz, M.; Sasco, A. J.; Siemiatycki, J.
Statistics in Medicine, 2003; 22(14):2335-63
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Effects of alcohol consumption on the risk of colorectal cancer among men by anatomical subsite (Canada)
Sharpe, C. R.; Siemiatycki, J.; Rachet, B.
Cancer Causes and Control, 2002; 13(5):483-91
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