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Cervical cancer in NSW:Incidence and mortality, 1995. Cancer Information Update No. 3
Published 1997Other -
A case-control study of melanomas of the soles and palms (Australia and Scotland)
Published 1999OBJECTIVES: Because the factors that influence risk of acral melanomas on the soles and palms in White populations are unknown, we investigated these in a multi-center case-control study. METHODS: Cases of melanoma of the ...Article -
Cancer mortality in East and Southeast Asian migrants to New South Wales, Australia, 1975-1995
Published 1999Routinely collected data for New South Wales were used to analyse cancer mortality in migrants born in East or Southeast Asia according to duration of residence in Australia. A case-control approach compared deaths from ...Article -
How to use the evidence: assessment and application of scientific evidence. Handbook series on preparing clinical practice guidelines.
Published 1999Report, Research -
Morphologic evidence that analgesic-induced kidney pathology contributes to the progression of tumors of the renal pelvis
Published 1999BACKGROUND: Whether phenacetin-containing analgesics cause renal pelvic tumors by virtue of the weak mutagenicity of phenacetin, or indirectly through local effects of analgesic-induced renal papillary scarring, is debated. ...Article -
Androgen receptor exon 1 CAG repeat length and breast cancer in women before age forty years
Published 1999BACKGROUND: We conducted a population-based, case-control-family study to determine whether androgen receptor (AR) exon 1 polymorphic CAG repeat length (CAGn) was a risk factor for early-onset breast cancer in the Australian ...Article -
Cancer mortality in migrants from the British Isles and continental Europe to New South Wales, Australia, 1975-1995
Published 1999Routinely collected data for New South Wales were used to analyse cancer mortality in migrants from the British Isles, southern Europe and eastern Europe according to duration of residence in Australia. A case-control ...Article -
Cancer maps for New South Wales? Variation by local government area 1991 to 1995.
Published 1999Report, Research -
Population-based estimate of the average age-specific cumulative risk of breast cancer for a defined set of protein-truncating mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Australian Breast Cancer Family Study
Published 1999The average breast cancer risk for carriers of a germ-line mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (penetrance) has been estimated from the multiple-case families collected by the Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium (BCLC) to be approximately ...Article -
Breast cancer in New South Wales in 1972-1995: tumor size and the impact of mammographic screening
Published 1999To examine the use of mammographic screening in women in New South Wales (NSW), we measured uptake of initial mammograms and estimated the proportions of breast cancers that were screen detected. To see if mammographic ...Article -
Distinct molecular pathogeneses of early-onset breast cancers in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: a population-based study
Published 1999Breast cancers arising in women with and without a germline mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene display different histological features, which suggests unique mechanisms of molecular pathogenesis: We used a molecular ...Article -
Risk of cancer in people with AIDS
Published 1999OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the incidence of cancers other than the AIDS-defining cancers is increased in people with AIDS, and to determine if cancer incidence increases with time, a surrogate marker of declining ...Article -
The effects of information framing on the practices of physicians
Published 1999OBJECTIVE: The presentation format of clinical trial results, or the 'frame,' may influence perceptions about the worth of a treatment. The extent and consistency of that influence are unclear. We undertook a systematic ...Article -
Antibodies against human herpesvirus 8 in black South African patients with cancer
Published 1999BACKGROUND: Infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been consistently linked to Kaposi's sarcoma, but its mode of transmission, association with other cancers, and interaction with the human immunodeficiency virus ...Article