Anna Plym

Biography

I am a prostate cancer researcher and epidemiologist with joint appointments at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Karolinska Institutet. My research aims at improving genetic risk stratification for prostate cancer, in particular aggressive disease, and at understanding if a high genetic risk can be offset by adherence to a healthy lifestyle.

Education and Training

• MSc, Biomedical Science
  Uppsala University
• MSc, Public Health Epidemiology
  Karolinska Institutet
• PhD, Cancer Epidemiology
  Karolinska Institutet
• Postdoc, Genetic Epidemiology
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Awards and Honors

• Young Investigator Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), 2021
• Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2021

Publications

• A Comparison of Stockholm3, Serum Biomarkers, and Risk Calculators to Predict Prostate Cancer in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Cohort: Evaluation of the Stockholm3 Multiethnic SEPTA Trial.

  Lazarovich A, Vigneswaran H, Palsdottir T, Eklund M, Discacciati A, Nordström T, Hubbard RA, Perlis N, Abern MR, Moreira DM, Yonover P, Chow AK, Watts K, Liss MA, Thoreson GR, Abreu AL, Sonn GA, Plym A, Wiklund F, Grönberg H, Murphy AB, Eggener S. J Urol 2025

  PMID: 40202133

• Identifying Patients at Risk of Early Lethal Prostate Cancer by Integrating Family History, Polygenic Risk Score, Rare Variants in DNA Repair Genes, and Lifestyle Factors.

  Zhang Z, Zhang Y, Stopsack KH, Kibel AS, Giovannucci EL, Penney KL, Wang A, Vijai J, Kantoff PW, Pomerantz MM, Offit K, Mucci LA, Plym A. Eur Urol Oncol 2025 Apr 04

  PMID: 40187970

• Stockholm3 in a Multiethnic Cohort for Prostate Cancer Detection (SEPTA): A Prospective Multicentered Trial.

  Vigneswaran HT, Eklund M, Discacciati A, Nordström T, Hubbard RA, Perlis N, Abern MR, Moreira DM, Eggener S, Yonover P, Chow AK, Watts K, Liss MA, Thoreson GR, Abreu AL, Sonn GA, Palsdottir T, Plym A, Wiklund F, Grönberg H, Murphy AB. J Clin Oncol 2024 Nov 10

  PMID: 39038251

• Early Prostate Cancer Deaths Among Men With Higher vs Lower Genetic Risk.

  Plym A, Zhang Y, Stopsack KH, Ugalde-Morales E, Seibert TM, Conti DV, Haiman CA, Baras A, Stocks T, Drake I, Penney KL, Giovannucci E, Kibel AS, Wiklund F, Mucci LA. JAMA Netw Open 2024 07 01

  PMID: 38958976

• Healthy lifestyle and prostate cancer risk in the Million Veteran Program.

  Pagadala MS, Lui A, Lynch J, Karunamuni R, Lee KM, Plym A, Rose BS, Carter H, Kibel AS, DuVall SL, Vassy J, Gaziano JM, Panizzon MS, Hauger RL, Seibert TM. Cancer 2024 Oct 15

  PMID: 38865417