Deirdre Cronin

"I hope that, through the training I have received and my project work, collaborations will be further enhanced when I return to Ireland."

Deirdre Cronin, PhD
Consortium Fellow, Cancer Epidemiology
National Cancer Registry of Ireland
Cork University Hospital


Dr. Deirdre Cronin, a molecular biologist from the Republic of Ireland, began her fellowship at the NCI in the summer of 2003. Before traveling to the U.S., she participated in a course in cancer epidemiology and had a four-month assignment at the National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI) in Cork. Since her return to the NCRI, she has been pursuing a program of research in collaboration with a number of researchers at NCI, including Dr. Linda Harlan, in the area of patterns of care, as well as a number of case-control studies. Dr. Cronin has been involved in analysis of data from the FINBAR study of oesophageal adenocarcinoma and in developing proposals for studies in HPV/Cervical carcinoma and in pancreatic cancers.

Papers published by Dr. Cronin include:

• Glynn SA, J Harmey, B Gibson, DP Cronin, P Gammell, A Adams and M Clynes, 2006.
  In vitro and in vivo analysis of chemotherapeutic induced invasiveness in the mouse mammary carcinoma 4T1. Anticancer Research, 26(2).
• Comber H, DP Cronin, S Deady, P O'Lorcain, and P Riordan, 2005.
  An Analysis of waiting times for cancer patients in Ireland. Irish Medical Journal, 98 (8): 238-9.
• Cronin DP, L Sharp, S Deady, and H Comber. Histological sub-type and other determinants of treatment and survival for patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1999-2001: a population-based study. Accepted for publication, European Journal of Cancer, 2006.
• Cronin DP, LC Harlan, LX Clegg, and M Mooney.Patterns of Care in Random Population-Based Sample of Patients Diagnosed with Gastric Cancer. Manuscript in preparation for submission March 2006.
• Cronin DP, JLWarren, and LC Harlan. DCIS:Factors influencing recurrence or second-event in a cohort of women who received breast conserving surgery only in 1991 & 1992.  Manuscript in preparation for submission February 2006.