Dr. Botta got her Master Degree in “Biostatistics and applied statistics” at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy, in 2012 and she is a third year PhD student in “Biostatistics and Epidemiology” at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.

Dr. Botta has 10 years’ experience in research working at the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (Milano-Italy) and has been involved in statistical analysis and data management in several national and international projects for both epidemiological (e.g. EUROCARE, RARECARENet, BENCHISTA) and clinical research. 

The cancers she deals with are mainly rare cancers, with a focus on childhood, adolescent and young adult, head and neck and sarcomas.

In recent years, she has developed new statistical methodologies to estimate the excess risk of death from non-oncologic causes in cancer patients and she is involved in the development of the EURACAN registry using the federated approach.