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• Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33.

  We carried out a genome-wide association study of lung cancer (3,259 cases and 4,159 controls), followed by replication in 2,899 cases and 5,573 contr…

  Authors: James D McKay, Rayjean J Hung, Valerie Gaborieau, Paolo Boffetta, Amelie Chabrier, Graham Byrnes, David Zaridze, Anush Mukeria, Neonilia Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Jolanta Lissowska,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2008 Dec

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• Effects of alteplase beyond 3 h after stroke in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): a placebo-controlled randomised trial.

  BACKGROUND: Whether intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (alteplase) is effective beyond 3 h after onset of acute ischaemic stroke is unclear. We …

  Authors: Stephen M Davis, Geoffrey A Donnan, Mark W Parsons, Christopher Levi, Kenneth S Butcher, Andre Peeters, P Alan Barber, Christopher Bladin, Deidre A De Silva, Graham Byrnes,…

  Source: Lancet neurology. 2008 Apr

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• Acute hyperglycemia adversely affects stroke outcome: a magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy study.

  Controversy exists whether acute hyperglycemia is causally associated with worse stroke outcome or simply reflects a more severe stroke. In reversible…

  Authors: Mark W Parsons, P Alan Barber, Patricia M Desmond, Tracey A Baird, David G Darby, Graham Byrnes, Brian M Tress, Stephen M Davis

  Source: Annals of neurology. 2002 Jul

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• Incidental lung cancers identified at coronial autopsy: implications for overdiagnosis of lung cancer by screening.

  BACKGROUND: The extent to which overdiagnosis occurs in lung cancer screening programmes has been debated. Overdiagnosis refers to the detection by sc…

  Authors: Renee L Manser, Malcolm Dodd, Graham Byrnes, Louis B Irving, Donald A Campbell

  Source: Respiratory medicine. 2005 Apr

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• Advanced breast cancer and breast cancer mortality in randomized controlled trials on mammography screening.

  PURPOSE: We assessed changes in advanced cancer incidence and cancer mortality in eight randomized trials of breast cancer screening. PATIENTS AND MET…

  Authors: Philippe Autier, Clarisse Héry, Jari Haukka, Mathieu Boniol, Graham Byrnes

  Source: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2009 Dec 10

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• Proof-of-principle phase II MRI studies in stroke: sample size estimates from dichotomous and continuous data.

  BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Since the failure of a number of phase III trials of neuroprotection in ischemic stroke, the need for smaller phase II studies…

  Authors: MR Stroke Collaborative Group, Thanh G Phan, Geoffrey A Donnan, Stephen M Davis, Graham Byrnes

  Source: Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation. 2006 Oct

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• Validity of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) utility instrument in patients with operable and inoperable lung cancer.

  There have been few longitudinal studies of quality of life in patients with all stages of lung cancer, particularly those that have included measures…

  Authors: Renee L Manser, Gavin Wright, Graham Byrnes, David Hart, Matthew Conron, Rob Carter, Sue-Anne McLachlan, Donald A Campbell

  Source: Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2006 Aug

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• Tuberculosis recurrence and mortality after successful treatment: impact of drug resistance.

  BACKGROUND: The DOTS (directly observed treatment short-course) strategy for tuberculosis (TB) control is recommended by the World Health Organization…

  Authors: Helen Cox, Yared Kebede, Sholpan Allamuratova, Gabit Ismailov, Zamira Davletmuratova, Graham Byrnes, Christine Stone, Stefan Niemann, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, Lucie Blok,…

  Source: PLoS medicine. 2006 Oct

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• Cost-effectiveness analysis of screening for lung cancer with low dose spiral CT (computed tomography) in the Australian setting.

  INTRODUCTION: Low dose spiral computed tomography (CT) is a sensitive screening tool for lung cancer that is currently being evaluated in both non-ran…

  Authors: Renee Manser, Andrew Dalton, Rob Carter, Graham Byrnes, Mark Elwood, Donald A Campbell

  Source: Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2005 May

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• Association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of colorectal cancer in European populations:a nested case-control study.

  OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration, dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium, and the ris…

  Authors: Mazda Jenab, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Pietro Ferrari, Franzel J B van Duijnhoven, Teresa Norat, Tobias Pischon, Eugène H J M Jansen, Nadia Slimani, Graham Byrnes, Sabina Rinaldi,…

  Source: BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2010

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