Browsing The Daffodil Centre by subject "Adult"
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The ABC of vitamin D: a qualitative study of the knowledge and attitudes regarding vitamin D deficiency amongst selected population groups
Published 2013OBJECTIVE: In Australia, vitamin D supply in food is limited, and sun exposure is the main source of vitamin D. However skin cancer risk is high, and the need to gain some sun exposure for adequate vitamin D is challenging ...Article -
Age, health, and education determine supportive care needs of men younger than 70 years with prostate cancer
Published 2007PURPOSE: It is important to meet the supportive care needs of cancer patients to ensure their satisfaction with their care. A population-wide sample of men younger than 70 years and newly diagnosed with prostate cancer was ...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 -
Androgenetic alopecia and prostate cancer: findings from an Australian case-control study
Published 2001The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between androgenetic alopecia (AA) and prostate cancer with particular emphasis on early age at diagnosis and higher grade tumors. We conducted an age-stratified, ...Article -
Anti-fibrinolytic use for minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion. Substantial update.
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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 -
Antibodies against six human herpesviruses in relation to seven cancers in black South Africans: a case control study
Published 2006BACKGROUND: Infections with certain human herpesviruses have been established as risk factors for some cancer types. For example, Epstein-Barr Virus is considered a cause of Burkitt's lymphoma and other immunosuppression ...Article -
BRCA1 mutations and other sequence variants in a population-based sample of Australian women with breast cancer
Published 1999The frequency, in women with breast cancer, of mutations and other variants in the susceptibility gene, BRCA1, was investigated using a population-based case-control-family study. Cases were women living in Melbourne or ...Article -
BRCA2 mutations in a population-based series of patients with ocular melanoma
Published 2002We studied the BRCA2 gene for germline mutations in 71 of 99 patients (72%) with ocular melanoma who were diagnosed consecutively in Australia in 1997 and 1998. Patients considered for our study fulfilled one of the following ...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 -
Breast conservation, mastectomy and axillary surgery in New South Wales women in 1992 and 1995
Published 2001To measure the increase in uptake of BCT in NSW and its determinants, we examined Cancer Registry records of 2020 women with breast cancer in 1992 and 2883 in 1995 linked to records of their surgical treatment in the NSW ...Article -
Can front-of-pack labelling schemes guide healthier food choices? Australian shoppers' responses to seven labelling formats
Published 2014There is evidence that easily accessible, comprehensible and consistent nutrient information on the front of packaged foods could assist shoppers to make healthier food choices. This study used an online questionnaire of ...Article -
Cancer in patients on dialysis for end-stage renal disease: an international collaborative study
Published 1999BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that the frequency of cancer is higher in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) than in the general population, but have not established whether this increase is confined ...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 -
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 patients' preferences for written prognostic information provided outside the clinical context
Published 2003Cancer patients' preferences for written prognostic information independent of the clinical context have not previously been investigated. This study aimed to assist a state cancer organisation to provide information to ...Article -
Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study (CONCORD)
Published 2009BACKGROUND: Cancer survival varies widely between countries. The CONCORD study provides survival estimates for 1.9 million adults (aged 15-99 years) diagnosed with a first, primary, invasive cancer of the breast (women), ...Article -
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 -
Case-spouse control design in practice: an experience in estimating smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease deaths in Chinese adults
Published 2010BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: We assessed the effect of smoking on death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in China by employing a large population-based, case-spouse control study design using data from a nationwide ...Article -
Changes in Smoking Prevalence among U.S. Adults by State and Region: Estimates from the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, 1992-2007
Published 2011ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Tobacco control policies at the state level have been a critical impetus for reduction in smoking prevalence. We examine the association between recent changes in smoking prevalence and state-specific ...Article