Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000 (2007)
Groenewald, P, Vos, T, Norman, R, Laubscher, R, Van Walbeek, C, Saloojee, U, ...
Objectives. To quantify the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000. Design. The absolute difference between observed lung cancer death rate and the level in non-smokers,...
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000 (2007)
Groenewald, P, Vos, T, Norman, R, Laubscher, R, Van Walbeek, C, Saloojee, Y, ...
Estimating the Burden of Disease Attributable to Smoking in South Africa in 2000 (2007)
Groenewald, P., Vos, T., Norman, R., Laubscher, R., Van Walbeek, C., Saloojee, Y., ...
Objectives. To quantify the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000. Design. The absolute difference between observed lung cancer death rate and the level in non-smokers,...
Estimating the Burden of Disease Attributable to Smoking in South Africa in 2000 (2007)
Groenewald, P., Vos, T., Norman, R., Laubscher, R., Van Walbeek, C., Saloojee, Y., ...
Objectives. To quantify the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa for 2000. Design. The absolute difference between observed lung cancer death rate and the level in non-smokers,...
Urban, MI, Sitas, F, Blackburn, N, Hale, M, Patel, M, ...
Abstract Background 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...
Estimating the burden of disease from smoking in South Africa (2006)
Groenwald, P., Vos, T., Laubscher, R., Norman, R. E., Van Walbeek, C., Sitas, F., ...
Estimating the burden of disease from smoking in South Africa (2006)
Groenwald, P., Vos, T., Laubscher, R., Norman, R. E., Van Walbeek, C., Sitas, F., ...
Tobacco and cancer: recent epidemiological evidence (2004)
Vineis, P., Alavanja, M., Buffler, P., Fontham, E., Franceschi, S., Gao, Y.T., ...
Tobacco and Cancer: Recent Epidemiological Evidence (2004)
Vineis, P., Alavanja, M., Buffler, P., Fontham, E., Franceschi, S., Gao, Y. T., ...
Wojcicki, J.M., Newton, R., Urban, M.I., Stein, L., Hale, M., Patel, M., ...
Background: Infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) is the necessary causal agent in the development of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Infection with HIV-1, male gender and older age all increase risk for...
Williams, BG, Gouws, E, Colvin, M, Sitas, F, Ramjee, G, Karim, SSA
South Africa is experiencing an explosive epidemic of HIV/AIDS, with about one in four women attending ante-natal clinics nation-wide being HIV-positive. In order to understand the natural history of...
Williams, BG, Gouws, E, Colvin, M, Sitas, F, Ramjee, G, Karim, SSA
South Africa is experiencing an explosive epidemic of HIV/AIDS, with about one in four women attending ante-natal clinics nation-wide being HIV-positive. In order to understand the natural history of...
Urban, MI, Sitas, F, Blackburn, N, Hale, M, Patel, M, ...
Forman, D, Newell, D G, Fullerton, F, Yarnell, J W, Stacey, A R, Wald, N, ...
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the association between gastric cancer and prior infection with Helicobacter pylori. DESIGN--Case-control comparison of prevalence of IgG antibodies to H pylori in blood...
Urban, MI, Sitas, F, Blackburn, N, Hale, M, Patel, M, ...
Forman, D, Newell, D G, Fullerton, F, Yarnell, J W, Stacey, A R, Wald, N, ...
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the association between gastric cancer and prior infection with Helicobacter pylori. DESIGN--Case-control comparison of prevalence of IgG antibodies to H pylori in blood...
Sitas, F, Forman, D, Yarnell, J W, Burr, M L, Elwood, P C, Pedley, S, ...
The seroprevalence of IgG antibodies to Helicobacter pylori was determined using a standard enzyme linked immunosorbent assay in a population of 749 randomly selected men, aged 30-75 years, from...
Changing pattern of gastric cancer in Oxfordshire.
Rios-Castellanos, E, Sitas, F, Shepherd, N A, Jewell, D P
This study compares the incidence rates of histologically confirmed gastric carcinoma in Oxfordshire in two five year periods (1960-64, 1984-88). Data were available for 215 patients in the first...
Respiratory disease mortality patterns among South African iron moulders.
Sitas, F, Douglas, A J, Webster, E C
To assess the influence of foundry exposure on malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease, the proportional mortality ratio (PMR) was used to compare the cause of death distributions of the 578...
Tobacco attributable deaths in South Africa
Sitas, F, Urban, M, Bradshaw, D, Kielkowski, D, Bah, S, Peto, R
Background: In mid 1998, a question "Was the deceased a smoker five years ago?" was introduced on the newly revised South African death notification form.
Mzileni, O., Sitas, F., Steyn, K., Carrara, H., Bekker, P.
DESIGN—Case-control study among incident African patients with cancer. Questionnaire assessment of exposure to tobacco, occupation, and place of birth. SETTING—Northern Province, South...
Vardas, E., Sitas, F., Seidel, K., Casteling, A., Sim, J.
Reported is the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Namibia as determined using a third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) on samples of blood collected from all asymptomatic,...
Sitas, F., Bezwoda, W. R., Levin, V., Ruff, P., Kew, M. C., Hale, M. J., ...
A case-control study of 913 black cancer patients (aged 15-50 years) was undertaken to measure the association between human immunodeficiency (HIV) infection and cancers believed to have an infective...
A minimum estimate for the incidence of gastric cancer in Eastern Kenya
McFarlane, G, Forman, D, Sitas, F, Lachlan, G
We documented available information concerning incident cases of gastric cancer in part of Kenya's Eastern Province between 1991 and 1993. By reviewing the records of all major health facilities in...
Risk factors for oesophageal, lung, oral and laryngeal cancers in black South Africans
Pacella-Norman, R, Urban, M I, Sitas, F, Carrara, H, Sur, R, Hale, M, ...
The authors used data collected from 1995 to 1999, from an on-going cancer case–control study in greater Johannesburg, to estimate the importance of tobacco and alcohol consumption and other...
Effects of tobacco smoking on cancer and cardiovascular disease in urban black South Africans
Stein, L, Urban, M I, Weber, M, Ruff, P, Hale, M, Donde, B, ...
Effects of tobacco smoking on cancer and cardiovascular disease in urban black South Africans
Stein, L, Urban, M I, Weber, M, Ruff, P, Hale, M, Donde, B, ...
Demographic and lifestyle information from 9690 black patients diagnosed with cancer or cardiovascular disease was collected in an ongoing case–control study in Johannesburg, South Africa. Compared...