Liu, B., Balkwill, A., Banks, E., Cooper, C., Green, J., Beral, V., ...
Objectives. To examine the effect of height, weight and body mass index (BMI) on the risk of hip and knee replacement in middle-aged women. Methods. In a prospective cohort study 490 532 women aged...
Newton, R., Carpenter, L., Casabonne, D., Beral, V., Babiker, A., Darbyshire, J., ...
Antibody titres against Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)) and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) were examined in people who subsequently developed Kaposi's...
Risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV-positive subjects in Uganda (1997)
Ziegler, JL, Newton, R, KatongoleMbidde, E, Mbulataiye, S, DeCock, K, Wabinga, H, ...
Background: Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is associated epidemiologically with HIV infection and with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8 or KSHV). Both KS and HIV infection are common in Uganda. We conducted a...
Risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in HIV seropositive subjects in Uganda (1997)
Ziegler, J, Newton, R, KatangoleMbidde, E, Mbulataiye, S, DeCock, K, Wabinga, H, ...
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus and Kaposi's sarcoma in Africa (1996)
Chang, Y, Ziegler, J, Wabinga, H, KatangoleMbidde, E, Boshoff, C, Schulz, T, ...
Background: Endemic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a clinically and epidemiologically distinct human immunodeficiency virus negative form of KS occurring in Africa. Kaposi's sarcoma is now the most...
Outcome of pregnancies resulting from assisted conception (1990)
Beral, V, Doyle, P, Tan, S L, Mason, B A, Campbell, S
With the increasing practice of assisted conception, the health of the resulting children is becoming an increasingly important issue. Experience with four thousand children conceived by IVF or GIFT...
Lifestyle factors and primary glioma and meningioma tumours in the Million Women Study cohort
Benson, V S, Pirie, K, Green, J, Casabonne, D, Beral, V
Previous studies have reported inconsistent results on the effect of anthropometric and lifestyle factors on the risk of developing glioma or meningioma tumours. A prospective cohort of 1.3 million...
Cancer mortality and morbidity in employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-86.
Fraser, P., Carpenter, L., Maconochie, N., Higgins, C., Booth, M., Beral, V.
In further analyses of a cohort of 39,718 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority employees after 7 more years follow-up, cancer mortality, based on 1,506 deaths in 1946-86, was 20% below the national...
Oral contraceptive use and malignant melanoma in Australia.
Beral, V., Evans, S., Shaw, H., Milton, G.
In a case control study of 287 women aged 15-24 years with malignant melanoma and 574 matched controls, findings relating to oral contraceptive use and other hormone use are reported. Ever having...
Kaposi's sarcoma in England and Wales before the AIDS epidemic.
Grulich, A. E., Beral, V., Swerdlow, A. J.
The epidemiological features of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) incidence in England and Wales in the period 1971-1980 are reviewed. The epidemiology of KS in England and Wales in this period is distinct from...
The relationship of malignant melanoma, basal and squamous skin cancers to indoor and outdoor work.
An analysis of occupational incidence data for malignant melanomas and squamous-and basal-self carcinomas of the skin in England and Wales from 1970 to 1975 is reported. The occupational pattern for...
Malignant melanoma and oral contraceptive use among women in California.
Beral, V., Ramcharan, S., Faris, R.
Women who had used oral contraceptives, particularly long-term users, were found to have higher rates of malignant melanoma and of a past history of skin cancer than those who had never used oral...
Dolin, P. J., Darby, S. C., Beral, V.
A death certificate-based case-control study was conducted on 207 women aged 25-44 who died of bladder cancer in England and Wales in the period 1971-89 and 411 controls matched on sex, year of death...
Carpenter, L. M., Higgins, C. D., Douglas, A. J., Maconochie, N. E., Omar, R. Z., Fraser, P., ...
Cancer mortality in 40,761 employees of three UK nuclear industry facilities who had been monitored for external radiation exposure was examined according to whether they had also been monitored for...
Cook-Mozaffari, P., Newton, R., Beral, V., Burkitt, D. P.
Estimated incidence rates are presented for three human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cancers [Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) and other non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs)] from...
Age-standardised mortality rates for breast cancer were examined for 20 countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand from 1950 to 1992 and age-birth cohort and age-period of death...
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...
Risk factors for ovarian cancer: a case-control study.
Booth, M., Beral, V., Smith, P.
A hospital-based case-control study of ovarian cancer was conducted in London and Oxford between October 1978 and February 1983. Menstrual characteristics, reproductive and contraceptive history and...
Pancreatic cancer in type 1 and young-onset diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Stevens, R J, Roddam, A W, Beral, V
We conducted a systematic review of the risk of pancreatic cancer in people with type I and young-onset diabetes. In three cohort and six case–control studies, the relative risk for pancreatic...
Green, J, Watson, J, Roche, M, Beral, V, Patnick, J
Data on stage, grade and morphology of 12 761 colorectal cancers registered between 1995 and 2003 by Oxford Cancer Registry are reviewed. Dukes stage is recorded for 81% of colon cancers and for...
Roddam, A W, Pirie, K, Pike, M C, Chilvers, C, Crossley, B, Hermon, C, ...
Active smoking has little or no effect on breast cancer risk but some investigators have suggested that passive smoking and its interaction with active smoking may be associated with an increased...
Newton, R, Carpenter, L, Casabonne, D, Beral, V, Babiker, A, Darbyshire, J, ...
Antibody titres against Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)) and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) were examined in people who subsequently developed Kaposi's...
Magnusson, C M K, Roddam, A W, Pike, M C, Chilvers, C, Crossley, B, Hermon, C, ...
We examined the relationship between body fatness, sports participation and breast cancer risk in 1560 premenopausal cases and 1548 controls, from three related population-based case–control...
Estimating relative survival among people registered with cancer in England and Wales
Reeves, G K, Beral, V, Bull, D, Quinn, M
Because routinely collected survival data for cancer patients in England and Wales do not typically specify cause of death, conventional estimates of survival in cancer patients based on such data...
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...
Soya foods and breast cancer risk: a prospective study in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Key, T J, Sharp, G B, Appleby, P N, Beral, V, Goodman, M T, Soda, M, ...
The association between soya foods and breast cancer risk was investigated in a prospective study of 34 759 women in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Women completed dietary questionnaires 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...
Green, J, Sweetland, S, Beral, V, Chilvers, C, Crossley, B, ...
Human papillomavirus infection and use of oral contraceptives
Green, J, Smith, J S, Franceschi, S, Appleby, P, Plummer, M, ...
The epidemiology of conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma in Uganda
Newton, R, Ziegler, J, Ateenyi-Agaba, C, Bousarghin, L, Casabonne, D, Beral, V, ...