S. Thara, A. Budukh, R. Sankaranarayanan, B.M. Nene, K. Dinshaw, R. Rajkumar, ...
Early detection of cervical cancer with visual inspection methods: a summary of completed and on-going studies in India
Helicobacter pylori and cancer among adults in Uganda (2006)
Newton, R., Ziegler, J.L., Casabonne, D., Carpenter, L., Gold, B.D., Owens, M., ...
Data from Africa on infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) are sparse. Therefore, as part of an epidemiological study of cancer in Uganda, we investigated the prevalence and determinants of...
Tobacco associated mortality in Mumbai (Bombay) India. Results of the Bombay Cohort Study (2005)
Gupta, Prakash C., Pednekar, Mangesh S., Parkin, D. M., Sankaranarayanan, R.
Background Little is known about the excess mortality from forms of tobacco use other than cigarette smoking that are widely prevalent in India, such as bidi smoking and the various forms of...
Clasificación Internacional de enfermedades para oncología (2003)
FRITZ,A., PERCY,C., JACK,A., SHANMUGARATNAM,K., SOBIN,L., PARKIN,D.M., ...
Sankaranarayanan, R., Nene, B.M., Dinshaw, K., Rajkumar, R., Shastri, S., Wesley, R., ...
La India es un país de alto riesgo de cáncer cervical, donde se presentan cerca de la cuarta parte de los casos del total mundial (126 000 casos incidentes y 71 000 muertes durante 2000). La tasa...
Nene, B.M., Dinshaw, K., Rajkumar, R., Shastri, S., Wesley, R., Basu, P., ...
La India es un país de alto riesgo de cáncer cervical, donde se presentan cerca de la cuarta parte de los casos del total mundial (126 000 casos incidentes y 71 000 muertes durante 2000). La tasa...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination Randomized Trial in the Philippines (2003)
Completed activities: (1) Breast cancer incidence by end of 1999 in all project cohorts. * record linkage between files of incident cases and master files of the intervention cohort; (2) continuing...
The Comprehensive Cancer Monitoring Programme in Europe (2003)
Bray, F., Guerra Yi, M., Parkin, D.M.
Background: There continue to be major public health challenges arising from the increasing cancer burden in Europe. Drawing upon expertise from other European centres and networks, the Comprehensive...
Risk Factors for Kaposi's Sarcoma: A Case-Control study of HIV-Seronegative People in Uganda (2002)
Ziegler, J., Newton, R., Bourboulia, D., Casabonne, D., Beral, V., Mbidde, E., ...
As part of a larger investigation of cancer in Uganda, we conducted a case-control study of Kaposi's sarcoma in human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV)-seronegative adults presenting at hospitals in...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: A Randomized Trial in the Phillipines. (1998)
(1) A coordinating centre has been set up at Jose' Reyes Memorial Hospital, one of the referral centres for women detected with abnormalities. The necessary equipment has been purchased: computer,...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: A Randomized Trial in the Phillipines. (1998)
The purpose of the present work is to establish whether a program of mass screening by PE performed by trained paramedical personnel can be set up in a developing country as part of the routine...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Phillipines (1998)
The single screening round have been completed in December 1997. The women examined are 150,000. Active clinical follow-up of women positive for a lump who did not comply with referral was completed...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Phillipines (1998)
In 1990 breast cancer accounted for 795,000 new cases per year (Ferlay et a!., 1998), and it was the most frequent cancer in women. Incidence rates are still rising in many countries, particularly in...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Phillipines (1998)
In 1990 breast cancer accounted for 795,000 new cases per year (Ferlay et al,1998), and it was the most frequent cancer in women. Incidence rates are still rising in many countries, particularly in...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Philippines (1998)
Completed activities. 1.) continuing identification and registration of new breast cancer in the resident population with collection of clinical details of stage at diagnosis; incidence data have...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Philippines (1998)
Most breast cancer cases in the Philippines present at advanced stages and have a rapid unfavorable outcome. BCE undertaken by health workers appears to be an attractive compromise with a good...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Philippines (1998)
Most breast cancer cases in the Philippines present at advanced stages and have a rapid unfavorable outcome. Breast Clinical Examination (CBE) undertaken by health workers appears to be an attractive...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: Randomized Trial in the Phillipines (1998)
A high proportion of breast cancer cases in the Philippines and in developing countries in general present at advanced stages and have a rapid unfavorable outcome. Many of these cases could have a...
Crystal-to-Amorphous Transformation of NiTi Induced by Cold Rolling. (1998)
Koike, J., Parkin, D. M., Nastasi, M.
A NiTi intermetallic compound was cold rolled at room temperature by 30% and 60% thickness reductions, and microstructures were studied by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM); in the...
Breast Cancer Screening by Physical Examination: A Randomized Trial in the Phillipines. (1998)
Screening of the population in intervention areas continued. By the end of July 1997, 11.9, 97.6 were interviewed and examined. Three thousand were detected positive for a lump and referred for...
Geographic and ethnic variations in the incidence of childhood cancer (1996)
The total incidence of childhood cancer varies rather little between different regions of the world, with cumulative risk to age 15 nearly always in the range 1.0–2.5 per thousand. Acute...
Log-Linear Models for Cancer Risk among Migrants (1990)
KALDOR, J, KHLAT, M, PARKIN, D M, SHIBOSKI, S, STEINITZ, R
Kaldor J (International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert-Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France) Khlat M, Parkin D M, Shiboski S and Steinitz R. Log-linear models for cancer risk among...
DIETARY AND ENDOGENOUS CHOLESTEROL AND HUMAN CANCER (1984)
McMICHAEL, A. J., JENSEN, O. M., PARKIN, D. M., ZARIDZE, D. G.
Kramárová, E, Kogevinas, M, Anh, C T, Cau, H D, Dai, L C, Stellman, S D, ...
Agent Orange was the most common herbicide used in the Second Indochina War in the course of military operations in the former South Vietnam. Agent Orange is contaminated by the carcinogen...
A case-control study of cervical cancer screening in north east Scotland.
Macgregor, J E, Moss, S M, Parkin, D M, Day, N E
To estimate the relative risk of invasive cervical cancer in each succeeding year after a negative screening result the screening records of all women tested in the north east of Scotland were...
How successful is screening for congenital disease of the hip?
The efficacy of neonatal screening for congenital disease of the hip is reviewed in relation to currently accepted criteria. There is poor validity of the tests used, imperfect understanding of the...
Deviation from prescribed drug treatment after discharge from hospital.
Parkin, D M, Henney, C R, Quirk, J, Crooks, J
A study of 130 patients discharged from four hospital wards dealing mainly with acute medical cases showed that 66 deviated from the drug regimen prescribed on discharge. Of the patients, 46 did not...
A case-control study of cervical cancer screening in north east Scotland.
Macgregor, J E, Moss, S M, Parkin, D M, Day, N E
To estimate the relative risk of invasive cervical cancer in each succeeding year after a negative screening result the screening records of all women tested in the north east of Scotland were...
Kramárová, E, Kogevinas, M, Anh, C T, Cau, H D, Dai, L C, Stellman, S D, ...
Agent Orange was the most common herbicide used in the Second Indochina War in the course of military operations in the former South Vietnam. Agent Orange is contaminated by the carcinogen...
How successful is screening for congenital disease of the hip?
The efficacy of neonatal screening for congenital disease of the hip is reviewed in relation to currently accepted criteria. There is poor validity of the tests used, imperfect understanding of the...
Deviation from prescribed drug treatment after discharge from hospital.
Parkin, D M, Henney, C R, Quirk, J, Crooks, J
A study of 130 patients discharged from four hospital wards dealing mainly with acute medical cases showed that 66 deviated from the drug regimen prescribed on discharge. Of the patients, 46 did not...
Intestinal bacterial flora and bile salt studies in hypogammaglobulinaemia
Parkin, D. M., McClelland, D. B. L., O'Moore, R. R., Percy-Robb, I. W., Grant, I. W. B., Shearman, D. J. C.
Five patients with adult acquired hypogammaglobulinaemia, four of whom were achlorhydric, were studied. Jejunal bacterial counts were much higher than those in a control group of acid secretors, but...
McClelland, D. B. L., Samson, R. R., Parkin, D. M., Shearman, D. J. C.
The function of human purified colostral and gastrointestinal IgA has been studied by its ability to agglutinate common gastrointestinal organisms. Agglutinating activity was unaffected by trypsin or...
The management of hypertension — a survey of opinions among general practitioners
Fulton, Mary, Kellett, R. J., Maclean, D. W., Parkin, D. M., Ryan, M. P.
In order to clarify current opinion on aspects of the management of hypertension, a postal questionnaire was sent to all 420 general practitioners in the Lothian Health Board Area. Three hundred and...
The management of hypertension — a study of records in general practice
Parkin, D. M., Kellett, R. J., Maclean, D. W., Ryan, M. P., Fulton, Mary
We investigated the management of a group of 322 hypertensive patients by 71 general practitioners in the Lothian Health Board Area by a survey of the general practitioners' records. Eighty-five per...
Several screening policies have been recommended for implementation in England and Wales in the last 20 years, although no evidence as to their relative effectiveness or efficiency has been provided....
Cancer in the population of Hanoi, Vietnam, 1988-1990.
Anh, P. T., Parkin, D. M., Hanh, N. T., Duc, N. B.
The first results from the population-based cancer registry for the city of Hanoi, in northern Vietnam, are presented. In men, incidence rates are moderate-low with the most common cancers being...
Case-control study of gastric cancer screening in Venezuela.
Pisani, P., Oliver, W. E., Parkin, D. M., Alvarez, N., Vivas, J.
A screening programme for early gastric cancer was introduced in the state of Tachira, Venezuela, in 1980. Screening was performed by photofluorography, using two mobile units. The efficacy of this...
International variations in the incidence of childhood renal tumours.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has coordinated a worldwide study of childhood cancer incidence, with data from over 50 countries. We present here the results on renal tumours. Wilms'...
A computer simulation model for the practical planning of cervical cancer screening programmes.
There is ample evidence of the efficacy of cytological screening in the prevention of cervical cancer but disagreement on the form which screening programmes should take. Simulation models have been...
Risk factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Vizcaino, A. P., Parkin, D. M., Skinner, M. E.
This report presents information on risk factors for oesophageal cancer in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The data analysed were from the Cancer Registry of Bulawayo for the years 1963-77, when all registered...
Childhood leukaemia in Europe after Chernobyl: 5 year follow-up.
Parkin, D. M., Clayton, D., Black, R. J., Masuyer, E., Friedl, H. P., Ivanov, E., ...
The European Childhood Leukaemia - Lymphoma Incidence Study (ECLIS) is designed to address concerns about a possible increase in the risk of cancer in Europe following the nuclear accident in...
Gondos, A, Parkin, D M, Chokunonga, E, Brenner, H
We evaluated empirically the performance of various methods of calculating age-adjusted survival estimates when age-specific data are sparse. We have illustrated that a recently proposed alternative...
Cancer survival in Kampala, Uganda
Gondos, A, Brenner, H, Wabinga, H, Parkin, D M
Epidemiological data on the occurrence of cancer in sub-Saharan Africa are sparse, and population-based cancer survival data are even more difficult to obtain due to various logistic difficulties....
Trends in cancer incidence in Kyadondo County, Uganda, 1960–1997
Wabinga, H R, Parkin, D M, Wabwire-Mangen, F, Nambooze, S
Incidence rates of different cancers have been calculated for the population of Kyadondo County (Kampala, Uganda) for four time periods (1960–1966; 1967–1971; 1991–1994; 1995–1997), spanning...
Bah, E, Parkin, D M, Hall, A J, Jack, A D, Whittle, H
We describe the incidence of cancer in The Gambia over a 10-year period using data collected through the Gambian National Cancer Registry. Major problems involved with cancer registration in a...
The epidemiology of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Uganda
Newton, R, Ziegler, J, Ateenyi-Agaba, C, Bousarghin, L, Casabonne, D, Beral, V, ...
As part of a larger investigation of cancer in Uganda, we conducted a case–control study of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in adults presenting at hospitals in Kampala. Participants were...
Loss-adjusted survival of cervix cancer in Khon Kaen, Northeast Thailand
Sriamporn, S, Swaminathan, R, Parkin, D M, Kamsa-ard, S, Hakama, M
Survival of cervix cancer patients in Kampala, Uganda: 1995–1997
Wabinga, H, Ramanakumar, A V, Banura, C, Luwaga, A, Nambooze, S, Parkin, D M
The epidemiology of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Uganda
Newton, R, Ziegler, J, Ateenyi-Agaba, C, Bousarghin, L, Casabonne, D, Beral, V, ...
Cancer mortality in the United Kingdom: projections to the year 2025
Olsen, A H, Parkin, D M, Sasieni, P
The purpose of this study was to project mortality rates in the United Kingdom for the period 2006–2025 for 21 major cancers on the basis of the observed trends in mortality rates during...