Emilie Charton is a statistician in the Social and Human Sciences Department at the Léon Bérard Center (Lyon). Her PhD research focused on the time-to-worsening method of health-related quality of life in cancerology. The results of her work contributed to the methodological reflection on the standardization of the analysis and interpretation of health-related quality of life data. Currently, her work focuses on the longitudinal analysis of health-related quality of life data in cancer and on social inequalities in health in the context of clinical research.