About – Caroline Dietrich

Caroline Dietrich is a biostatistician with over ten years of experience working in register-based epidemiological research. She joined Red Door Analytics part-time (0.2 FTE) in March 2023 as Principal Biostatistician, before becoming Director of Applied Biostatistics (0.4 FTE) in July 2023. Caroline also remains in the Cancer Epidemiology group at the Clinical Epidemiology Division (Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet), where she works on clinical research within lymphoma and colorectal cancer, and statistical methods development with a particular focus on survivorship and methods for multi-state modelling.

Education

• PhD in Medical Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, 2018 with thesis Survivorship in Hodgkin lymphoma: childbearing and treatment-related disease
• MSc in Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2009

Selected publications

Weibull CE, Wästerlid T, Wahlin BE, Andersson PO, Ekberg S, Lockmer S, Enblad G, Crowther MJ, Kimby E, Smedby KE. Survival by First-line Treatment Type and Timing of Progression Among Follicular Lymphoma Patients: A National Population-based Study in Sweden. Hemasphere. 2023 Feb 23;7(3). PMID: 36844185.

Ljunggren M, Weibull CE, Palmer G, Osterlund E, Glimelius B, Martling A, Nordenvall C. Sex differences in metastatic surgery following diagnosis of synchronous metastatic colorectal cancer. Int J Cancer. 2023 Feb 1;152(3):363-373. PMID: 36000990.

Ekberg S, Ekström Smedby K, Albertsson-Lindblad A, Jerkeman M, Weibull CE, Glimelius I. Late effects in mantle cell lymphoma patients treated with or without autologous stem cell transplantation. Blood Adv. 2022 Aug16. PMID: 35973196.

Glimelius I, Smedby KE, Albertsson-Lindblad A, Crowther MJ, Eloranta S, Jerkeman M, Weibull CE. Unmarried or less-educated patients with mantle cell lymphoma are less likely to undergo a transplant, leading to lower survival. Blood Adv. 2021 Mar 23;5(6):1638-1647. PMID: 33710334.

Weibull CE, Lambert PC, Eloranta S, Andersson TML, Dickman PW, Crowther MJ. A multistate model incorporating estimation of excess hazards and multiple time scales. Stat Med. 2021 Apr;40(9):2139-2154. PMID: 33556998.

Øvlisen AK, Jakobsen LH, Eloranta S, Kragholm KH, Hutchings M, Frederiksen H, Kamper P, Dahl-Sørensen RB, Stoltenberg D, Weibull CE, Entrop JP, Glimelius I, Smedby KE, Torp-Pedersen C, Severinsen MT, El-Galaly TC. Parenthood Rates and Use of Assisted Reproductive Techniques in Younger Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors: A Danish Population-Based Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Nov 1;39(31):3463-3472. PMID: 34170749.

Weibull CE, Björkholm M, Glimelius I, Lambert PC, Andersson TML, Smedby KE, Dickman PW, Eloranta S. Temporal trends in treatment-related incidence of diseases of the circulatory system among Hodgkin lymphoma patients. Int J Cancer. 2019 Sep 1;145(5):1200-1208. PMID: 30666628.

Glimelius I, Smedby KE, Eloranta S, Jerkeman M, Weibull CE. Comorbidities and sex differences in causes of death among mantle cell lymphoma patients – A nationwide population-based cohort study. Br J Haematol. 2020 Apr;189(1):106-116. PMID: 31721156.

Weibull CE, Johansson ALV, Eloranta S, Smedby KE, Björkholm M, Lambert PC, Dickman PW, Glimelius I. Contemporarily Treated Patients With Hodgkin Lymphoma Have Childbearing Potential in Line With Matched Comparators. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Sep 10;36(26):2718-2725. PMID: 30044694.

Weibull CE, Eloranta S, Smedby KE, Björkholm M, Kristinsson SY, Johansson AL, Dickman PW, Glimelius I. Pregnancy and the Risk of Relapse in Patients Diagnosed With Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Feb 1;34(4):337-44. PMID: 26668344.