Dr Karen Tuesley
Research Fellow/Senior Research officer
School of Public Health
Researcher biography
Karen Tuesley is an early career researcher at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Karen's research focuses on women's health and cancer epidemiology using large longitudinal datasets. Her PhD research used large-scale data to explore the associations between the use of chronic disease medications and the risk of ovarian cancer. She also researches long-term health outcomes for women after gynaecological surgery. Karen works with large observational studies with longitudinal data and is experienced with different analytic techniques and methods including emulated trials and Mendelian randomisation.
Journal Articles
Tuesley, Karen M., Spilsbury, Katrina, Webb, Penelope M., Protani, Melinda M., Dixon-Suen, Suzanne, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Donovan, Peter, Coory, Michael D., Steer, Christopher B., Stewart, Louise M., Pandeya, Nirmala and Jordan, Susan J. (2023). Association between antihypertensive medicine use and risk of ovarian cancer in women aged 50 years and older. Cancer Epidemiology, 86 102444, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2023.102444
Spilsbury, Katrina, Tuesley, Karen M., Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Coory, Michael D., Donovan, Peter, Steer, Christopher B., Stewart, Louise M., Pandeya, Nirmala and Jordan, Susan J. (2023). Perioperative beta-blocker supply and survival in women with epithelial ovarian cancer and a history of cardiovascular conditions. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41 (2), 266-275. doi: 10.1200/jco.22.00097
Ali, Sitwat, Na, Renhua, Tuesley, Karen, Spilsbury, Katrina, Stewart, Louise M., Coory, Michael, Webb, Penelope M., Donovan, Peter, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Jordan, Susan J. and Neale, Rachel E. (2022). The association between diabetes mellitus of different durations and risk of pancreatic cancer: an Australian national data-linkage study in women. Cancer Epidemiology, 81 102266, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2022.102266
Tuesley, Karen M., Webb, Penelope M., Protani, Melinda M., Spilsbury, Katrina, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Coory, Michael D., Donovan, Peter, Steer, Christopher, Stewart, Louise M., Pandeya, Nirmala and Jordan, Susan J. (2022). Nitrogen-based bisphosphonate use and ovarian cancer risk in women aged 50 years and older. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 114 (6), 878-884. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djac050
Tuesley, Karen M., Webb, Penelope M., Protani, Melinda M., Spilsbury, Katrina, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Coory, Michael D., Donovan, Peter, Steer, Christopher, Stewart, Louise M., Pandeya, Nirmala and Jordan, Susan J. (2022). Response to Lehrer and Rheinstein. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 114 (10) ARTN djac083, 1427-1428. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djac083
Wilson, Louise F., Tuesley, Karen M., Webb, Penelope M., Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Stewart, Louise M. and Jordan, Susan J. (2021). Hysterectomy and risk of breast, colorectal, thyroid and kidney cancer - an Australian data linkage study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 30 (5), 904-911. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-1670
Tuesley, Karen M., Protani, Melinda M., Webb, Penelope M., Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Wilson, Louise F., Stewart, Louise M. and Jordan, Susan J. (2020). Hysterectomy with and without oophorectomy and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 223 (5), 723.e1-723.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.04.037
Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Webb, Penelope M., Wilson, Louise F., Tuesley, Karen, Stewart, Louise M. and Jordan, Susan J. (2019). Response to van Diest, Zweemer, and Piek. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 111 (12), 1362-1362. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djz121
Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Webb, Penelope M., Wilson, Louise F., Tuesley, Karen, Stewart, Louise M. and Jordan, Susan J. (2019). The association between hysterectomy and ovarian cancer risk: a population-based record-linkage study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 111 (10), 1097-1103. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djz015
Tuesley, Karen M., Jordan, Susan J., Siskind, Dan J., Kendall, Bradley J. and Kisely, Steve (2018). Colorectal, cervical and prostate cancer screening in Australians with severe mental illness: Retrospective nation-wide cohort study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 53 (6), 550-558. doi: 10.1177/0004867418814945
Conference Papers
Ali, Sitwat, Coory, Michael, Donovan, Peter, Na, Renhua, Pandeya, Nirmala, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Spilsbury, Katrina, Stewart, Louise, Thompson, Bridie, Tuesley, Karen, Waterhouse, Mary, Webb, Penelope, Jordan, Susan and Neale, Rachel (2024). Association between unstable diabetes mellitus and risk of pancreatic cancer. AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Pancreatic Cancer, Boston, MA United States, 27-30 September 2023. Washington, DC United States: American Association for Cancer Research. doi: 10.1158/1538-7445.panca2023-a009
Tuesley, Karen, Webb, Penelope, Protani, Melinda, Spilsbury, Katrina, Pearson, Sallie-Anne, Coory, Michael D., Donovan, Peter, Stewart, Louise M., Pandeya, Nirmala and Jordan, Susan (2021). Bisphosphonate use and risk of ovarian cancer, a nested case-control study using national health data. IEA World Congress Of Epidemiology 2021, Online, 3-6 September 2021. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyab168.667
Kisely, S., Tuesley, K., Jordan, S., Kendall, B. and Siskind, D. (2019). Why do Australians with severe mental illness die 20 years prematurely? Answers from a retrospective nationwide cohort study of colorectal, cervical and prostate cancer screening. RANZCP 2019 Congress, Cairns, QLD Australia, 12–16 May 2019. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.1177/0004867419836919
Thesis
Tuesley, Karen (2023). Using large-scale data to explore the association between the use of chronic disease medical treatments and the risk of ovarian cancer. PhD Thesis, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/6cb1efc