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Cervical cancer in NSW:Incidence and mortality, 1995. Cancer Information Update No. 3
Published 1997Report, Research -
Randomised controlled trial of effect of feedback on general practitioners' prescribing in Australia
Published 1999OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect on general practitioners' prescribing of feedback on their levels of prescribing. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: General practice in rural Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 2440 full ...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 -
How to use the evidence: assessment and application of scientific evidence. Handbook series on preparing clinical practice guidelines.
Published 1999Report, Research -
Measurement of exposure and outcome in epidemiological studies used for quantitative estimation and prediction of risk
Published 1999Book Chapter -
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 -
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 -
HRAS1 rare minisatellite alleles and breast cancer in Australian women under age forty years
Published 1999BACKGROUND: A recent meta-analysis of 23 studies supported the empirically derived hypothesis that women who lack one of the four common minisatellite alleles at the HRAS1 locus are at increased risk of breast cancer. These ...Article -
Cancer maps for New South Wales? Variation by local government area 1991 to 1995.
Published 1999Report, Research -
Observations on the effect of abolishing analgesic abuse and reducing smoking on cancers of the kidney and bladder in New South Wales, Australia, 1972-1995
Published 1999OBJECTIVES: We have assessed the effect on the rates of cancers of the kidney and bladder of measures undertaken by the government in 1979-1983 to limit smoking and analgesic abuse in New South Wales (NSW). Sale of ...Article -
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 -
De novo BRCA1 mutation in a patient with breast cancer and an inherited BRCA2 mutation
Published 1999Article -
Effects of information framing on the intentions of family physicians to prescribe long-term hormone replacement therapy
Published 1999OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the way in which information on benefits and harms of long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is presented influences family physicians' intentions to prescribe this treatment. DESIGN: ...Article