The Daffodil Centre: Recent submissions
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Quantifying family dissemination and identifying barriers to communication of risk information in Australian BRCA families
Published 2017PurposeRecommendations for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers to disseminate information to at-risk relatives pose significant challenges. This study aimed to quantify family dissemination, to explain the differences between ...Article -
Are international differences in breast cancer survival between Australia and England present amongst both screen-detected women and non-screen-detected women? Survival estimates for women diagnosed in West Midlands and New South Wales 1997-2006
Published 2016We examined survival in screened-detected and non-screen-detected women diagnosed in the West Midlands (England) and New South Wales (Australia) in order to evaluate whether international differences in survival are related ...Article -
Sun exposure may increase risk of prostate cancer in the high UV environment of New South Wales, Australia: A case-control study
Published 2012Ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight may influence risk of prostate cancer. In New South Wales (NSW), Australia, we examined the relationship between sun exposure at 30 and 50 years of age and risk of prostate cancer in ...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