Angela Bacelar Mariotto is a statistician who researches the development and improvement of cancer progress measures. She is chief of the data analytics branch at the

National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...

. Mariotto was a researcher at the

Istituto Superiore di Sanità The ''Istituto Superiore di Sanità'' (Italian National Institute of Health, literally 'Higher Health Institute'), also ISS, is an Italian public institution that, as the leading technical-scientific body of the Italian National Health Service (' ...

Education

Mariotto received her Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics from the

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. Her 1988 thesis was titled ''Empirical Bayes inference and the linear model''. Mariotto's doctoral advisor was David Cox.

Career

Mariotto worked at the

for a decade. She joined the

(NCI) in November 1999. Mariotto is the chief of the data analytics branch (DAB) of the surveillance research program (SRP) within the division of cancer control and population sciences (DCCPS) at NCI.

Works

Mariotto's research interests include development and improvement of cancer progress measures, in particular survival, prevalence,

quality of life Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards ...

, utilization, and cost measures. Her other areas of expertise include the development and application of models to predict incidence and prevalence from cancer survival and mortality data, and models for survival projections. She is the NCI scientific coordinator of the prostate cancer working groups in the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Network (CISNET) cooperative agreement, for which she coordinates research activities of three grantees who are investigating questions related to the impact of

screening Screening may refer to: * Screening cultures, a type a medical test that is done to find an infection * Screening (economics), a strategy of combating adverse selection (includes sorting resumes to select employees) * Screening (environmental), a ...

and treatment interventions on

prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that sur ...

mortality trends. Mariotto is also responsible for developing new prevalence measures and for reporting the new cancer prevalence statistics to the nation each year. At NCI, Mariotto's duties include management of grants, independent research, and service duties, including helping to disseminate cancer statistics to the general public.

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