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Faecal immunochemical testing in bowel cancer screening: Estimating outcomes for different diagnostic policies.
(SAGE Publications, 2020-12-20)OBJECTIVES: The National Health Service Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (NHS BCSP) in England has replaced guaiac faecal occult blood testing by faecal immunochemical testing (FIT). There is interest in fully exploiting ... -
Familial loading in specific language impairment: patterns of differences across proband characteristics, gender and relative type.
(2007-04)There is now little doubt that both environmental factors and genes are likely to make important contributions to the aetiology of specific language impairment (SLI). The most commonly proposed model for understanding these ... -
[Fear of Coronavirus, Intention to Follow the AHA Rules and Risk Perception Regarding Visits to the Doctor: Cross-sectional Study with Patients suffering from Pre-existing Mental Illness].
(2021-04)BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic requires containment measures such as contact restrictions and hygiene requirements. It is accompanied by psychological problems and the fear of infection or of a severe course of the ... -
Final Results of the Prospective FH02 Mammographic Surveillance Study of Women Aged 35-39 at Increased Familial Risk of Breast Cancer.
(2019-01)Background: Many women who are at increased risk of breast cancer due to a mother or sister diagnosed with breast cancer aged under 40 do not currently qualify for surveillance before 40 years of age. There are almost no ... -
A flexible model for multivariate interval-censored survival times with complex correlation structure.
(2007-02-10)We focus on the analysis of multivariate survival times with highly structured interdependency and subject to interval censoring. Such data are common in developmental genetics and genetic epidemiology. We propose a flexible ... -
Frontotemporal Dementia: A Clinical Review.
(Thieme Publishing, 2019-04)Frontotemporal dementias are a clinically, neuroanatomically, and pathologically diverse group of diseases that collectively constitute an important cause of young-onset dementia. Clinically, frontotemporal dementias ... -
Future cancer risk after urgent suspected cancer referral in England when cancer is not found: a national cohort study.
(2023-11)BACKGROUND: Following referral for investigation of urgent suspected cancer within the English National Health Service referral system, 7% of referred individuals are diagnosed with cancer. This study aimed to investigate ... -
The future of cancer care in the UK-time for a radical and sustainable National Cancer Plan.
(2023-11-14)Cancer affects one in two people in the UK and the incidence is set to increase. The UK National Health Service is facing major workforce deficits and cancer services have struggled to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, ...