Mr Kwok Wong BSc, MSc, AMIMA

Doctoral Researcher

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4762
Email: kxw836@bham.ac.uk

Address: Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies
Public Health Building
School of Health and Population Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

PhD title: Epidemiological Analysis of Survivorship after Childhood Cancer

Supervisors: Prof. M. Hawkins, Dr. R. Reulen and Dr. C. Frobisher

Qualifications

MSc in Medical Statistics, University of Leicester, 2012.
Associate Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2011.
BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, University of Birmingham, 2011.

Biography

Kwok completed a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Birmingham in 2011. He then went on to complete an MSc in Medical Statistics from the University of Leicester. His MSc dissertation involved looking at modelling cancer incidence using fractional polynomial age-period-cohort (APC) models in comparison to spline APC models.

He joined the Centre of Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies in 2012 to do a PhD on a studentship from the PanCareSurFup study. He is currently involved in investigating late effects of childhood cancer survivors.

In June 2013, Kwok presented his first research project, as an oral presentation, at the 13th International Conference on Long-Term Complications of Treatment of Children and Adolescents for Cancer in Memphis which looked at late effects arising from treatment for childhood Wilms’ Tumour

Teaching

Medicine and Surgery MBChB:
- Clinical Epidemiology (Year 1)
- Evidence Based Medicine & Research Methods (Year 3)

Public Health MPH/PG Diploma/PG Certificate:
- Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods
- Practical Epidemiology and Statistics

Research

British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
The British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (BCCSS) is a national cohort study of 17,980 survivors of childhood cancer. Kwok’s PhD thesis is focused on adverse health outcomes among survivors of childhood cancer, including cause specific late mortality, pregnancy outcomes, health-status and second cancers.

PanCareSurFup
PanCareSurFup is an EU funded European wide study into the risks of adverse effects of treatment for childhood cancer.

Publications

Wong K, Reulen R, Winter D, et al: Adverse Health and Social Outcomes in Long-term survivors of Wilms' Tumour: The British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Presented (Oral) at The 13th International Conference on Long-Term Complications of Treatment of Children and Adolescents for Cancer, Memphis (TN), June 13-15, 2013.

Wong K, Reulen R, Hawkins M, et al: The Incidence of Digestive Carcinomas in PanCareSurFup. Presented (Oral) at The 13^th PanCare Meeting, Wroclaw (Poland), May 12-14, 2014.

Wong K, Reulen R, Winter D, et al: Risk of Adverse Health and Social Outcomes up to 50 years after Wilms’ Tumour: The British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Presented (Oral) at NCIN Cancer Outcomes Conference – The Power of Information, Birmingham (UK), June 9-10, 2014.

Wong K. Reulen R, Jenkinson H, et al. Risk of Mortality and Adverse Health and Social Outcomes Following Heritable Retinoblastoma: The British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Presented (Poster) at The 4^th European Symposium on Late Complications after Childhood Cancer, Edinburgh (UK), September 15-16, 2014.