Dr Michael O’Rorke, Centre for Public Health research fellow, has been invited to present a guest lecture on the epidemiology and survival of human papillomavirus related head and neck cancer at a NUI Galway and Galway University Hospital    symposium in May 2013, the findings of which were featured on the front cover of the December issue of Oral Oncology. Michael has also recently been asked by the editor of the European Journal of Cancer to be interviewed for a spotlight piece which will be linked to his recent publication on early-life exposures and risk of malignant melanoma. The results of this study, based on the analysis of 447,663 patients within the Northern Ireland Child Health dataset, supports a positive association with higher birth weight and potential protective effect of early-life immune modulation on adult risk of malignant melanoma.

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