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Adult body size, sexual history and adolescent sexual development, may predict risk of developing prostate cancer: Results from the New South Wales Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study (CLEAR).
Nair-Shalliker V; Yap S; Nunez C; Egger S; Rodger J; Patel M; O'Connell DL; Sitas F; Armstrong BK; Smith DPPublished 2017Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in men worldwide. The relationships between PC and possible risk factors for PC cases (n = 1,181) and male controls (n = 875) from the New South Wales (NSW) ...Article -
The Cancer, Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study (CLEAR): Rationale and design of an unmatched "case-spouse control" study of over 10,000 participants in New South Wales, Australia
Sitas F; Yap S; Egger S; Christian K; Hodgkinson V; Barton M; Banks E; Canfell K; O'Connell DL; Nair-Shalliker VPublished 2015INTRODUCTION: The New South Wales (NSW) Cancer, Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study (CLEAR) is an open epidemiological bioresource, using an all cancer unmatched case-spouse control design. Participant characteristics ...Article -
Contributions of prognostic factors to socioeconomic disparities in cancer survival: protocol for analysis of a cohort with linked data
Yu XQ; Goldsbury D; Yap S; Yap ML; O'Connell DPublished 2019Introduction Socioeconomic disparities in cancer survival have been reported in many developed countries, including Australia. Although some international studies have investigated the determinants of these socioeconomic ...Article -
Health services costs for cancer care in Australia: Estimates from the 45 and Up Study
Goldsbury DE; Yap S; Weber MF; Veerman L; Rankin N; Banks E; Canfell K; O'Connell DLPublished 2018Background Cancer care represents a substantial and rapidly rising healthcare cost in Australia. Our aim was to provide accurate population-based estimates of the health services cost of cancer care using large-scale linked ...Article -
Identifying high risk individuals for targeted lung cancer screening: Independent validation of the PLCOm2012 risk prediction tool
Weber MF; Yap S; Goldsbury DE; Manners D; Tammemagi M; Marshall H; Brims F; McWilliams A; Fong K; Kang YJ; Caruana M; Banks E; Canfell KPublished 2017Abstract Lung cancer screening with computerised tomography holds promise, but optimising the balance of benefits and harms via selection of a high risk population is critical. PLCOm2012 is a logistic regression model based ...Article -
Identifying incident colorectal and lung cancer cases in health service utilisation databases in Australia: a validation study
Goldsbury DE; Weber MF; Yap S; Banks E; O'Connell DL; Canfell KPublished 2017Background Data from centralised, population-based statutory cancer registries are generally considered the 'gold standard' for confirming incident cases of cancer. When these are not available, or more current information ...Article -
National Cervical Screening Programme Monitoring Report 44 1 July to 31 December 2015
Smith MA; Yap S; Canfell KPublished 2017This report provides data on performance indicators of the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) for the period 1 July - 31 December 2015.Report, Research -
Patterns of care and emergency presentations for people with non-small cell lung cancer in New South Wales, Australia: A population-based study
Yap S; Goldsbury DE; Yap ML; Yuill S; Rankin N; Weber MF; Canfell K; O'Connell DLPublished 2018Introduction Little is known about population-wide emergency presentations and patterns of care for people diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Australia. We examined patients’ characteristics associated ...Open AccessArticle -
Smoking cessation after cancer
Sitas F; Weber MF; Egger S; Yap S; Chiew M; O'Connell DLPublished 2014Article -
Smoking Cessation After Cancer
Sitas F; Weber MF; Egger S; Yap S; Chiew M; O'Connell DLPublished 2014The benefits of smoking cessation after a cancer diagnosis are overlooked. In many high-income countries, cancer survival has improved significantly over the last few decades.1 About half of patients with cancer are now ...Article
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