Dr Ashleigh Hamilton

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Dr Ashleigh Hamilton

Academic Clinical Lecturer, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast

Dr Ashleigh Hamilton is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast. She graduated from Medicine with Honours at Queen’s University Belfast in 2010, and worked as a junior doctor in hospitals across Northern Ireland and New Zealand, before taking up a training post in Medical Oncology at the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre in Belfast in 2016. After completing a PhD in Cancer Epidemiology from 2019 to 2022 at Queen’s University, she has recently taken up her current post with a view to developing a career as a Clinical Academic. She splits her time between the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre where she works as an Oncologist, and Queen’s University, where her research focuses on early onset cancers.

Her research focuses on early onset colorectal cancer. Currently she is investigating the molecular epidemiology and survival of early onset colorectal cancer, along with qualitative research into the experience of patients with the disease.

Cancer is rising in under-50s – but the causes are a mystery

Cancer is often thought of as a disease that mostly affects older people. But worrying new research shows that cancer in younger adults is a growing problem. The study found there’s been a nearly 80% increase in the number of under-50s being diagnosed with cancer globally in the last three decades.

Cancer is rising in under-50s – but the causes are a mystery

Cancer is often thought of as a disease that mostly affects older people. But worrying new research shows that cancer in younger adults is a growing problem. The study found there’s been a nearly 80% increase in the number of under-50s being diagnosed with cancer globally in the last three decades.

By Dr Ashleigh Hamilton

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