Maria Paula Curado studies the risk factors for head, neck, gastric and breast cancers.
Credit: Diego Rodrigues Mendonca e SilvaMaria Paula Curado, a cancer epidemiologist at A. C. Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo, Brazil, has dedicated her career to studying the risk factors for head, neck, gastric and breast cancers. As head of the cancer epidemiology and statistics group, she conducts hospital-based and population-wide studies with collaborators across Brazil.
In 2014, I started a cancer-epidemiology group at A. C. Camargo. Worldwide, cancer is the second biggest cause of death, after cardiovascular disease. Physicians are treating people all the time, but sometimes they don’t know about factors such as prevention or risk. I think epidemiology can give you a broader view of cancer. This is what is missing in many cancer centres.
A typical day in the office involves reading, talking to my students, and discussing new research, especially in cancer. The group runs a postgraduate programme, so I have three PhD students, three master’s students and two postdoctoral fellows. Most come here from medical school, but some have a biomedical or nursing background. They think I’m just teaching, but I’m also learning a lot from them.
I support the students and help them with their research. A key question I want my students to ask is: what difference am I making to others? In Brazil, we have so much disparity and inequality in health-care access. An important aspect of my research is asking: why are people dying from certain cancers? Do they have access to treatment or new drugs?One issue I think is really important is premature death, because in Brazil a lot of people are dying young from cancer.
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