Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Griffith University
Thanya is a senior lecturer in medical education and associate lead of Doctor and Health in the Community theme (public health) at School of medicine, Griffith University at Sunshine Coast. She is a medical doctor from Sri Lanka with a Masters in Public health from Griffith University and currently in the final stages of her PhD in overdiagnosis of prostate cancer in Australia. She has published her work in leading medical journals including BMJ, MJA and BMJ open. Her other research interests include medical education, health promotion and prevention of non communicable diseases. She teaches evidence based medicine, clinical epidemiology and clinical skills to medical students across all years of the MD program.
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year
Jan 28, 2020 08:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In the same year, we found that approximately one in five...
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