COSA Survivorship Fellow

  • GROUP Survivorship
  • PROJECT SPAN 2022
  • DATE 17/10/2022

Carla Thamm

COSA's Survivorship Fellowship program was established in 2020 to help build capacity in survivorship research. Fellows receive mentorship, guidance and support from the Survivorship Executive Committee comprised of internationally renowned senior clinicians and researchers in cancer survivorship. Dr Carla Thamm was one of four Survivorship Fellows appointed in 2022. Prof Gail Garvey and Dr Shafkat Jahan were her primary co-mentors.

Fellowship Project

Quantifying cancer healthcare costs for adolescents and young adults in Queensland, Australia

This Fellowship project aimed to quantify health service use and out-of-pocket costs for adolescents and young adults with cancer in Queensland over time, and focused on:

Diversity across First Nations and Non-First Nations people

Diversity in different geographical and sociodemographic settings

Differences in cancer diagnosis and age

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