Mark Rutherford

Research Associate

CONTACT DETAILS

Department of Health Sciences
University of Leicester
Adrian Building, University Road
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Tel: 00 44 116 229 7292
Email: mjr40@le.ac.uk  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include:

• Methods for analysing population-based cancer data.
• Relative survival methods.
• Modelling and projecting cancer incidence.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

October 2011- September 2014. CRUK Population Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. “Improving the understanding of the results from population-based cancer studies”.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Recent presentations:

• M.J. Rutherford, P. C. Lambert, and J. R. Thompson. "Flexible Age-Period-Cohort Modelling: An Application to Finnish Colon Cancer Data". ANCR Conference. Oral Presentation. Sigtuna, September 2009.
• M.J. Rutherford, P. C. Lambert, and J. R. Thompson. "Flexible Age-Period-Cohort Modelling" IACR Conference, Oral Presentation. New Orleans, June 2009.
• M.J. Rutherford, P.W. Dickman, P.C. Lambert. "Comparing methods for calculating relative survival: A simulation-based study". Methods and applications for population based survival workshop. Poster presentation, Rome, September 2010.
• M.J. Rutherford, P.W. Dickman, P.C. Lambert. "Comparison of methods for calculating relative survival via simulation". IBS Conference. Oral Presentation. Florianopolis, Brazil. December 2010.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Rutherford M.J., Dickman, P.W., Lambert P.C. Comparison of methods for calculating relative survival in population-based studies. Cancer Epidemiology 2011 (in press).

Rutherford M.J., Lambert P.C. and Thompson J.R. Age-period-cohort modelling. The Stata Journal 2010;10:602-627.