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N. Ireland Cancer Registry

2015

Rose PW, Rubin G, Perera-Salazar R, Almberg SS, Barisic A, Dawes M, Grunfeld E, Hart N, Neal RD, Pirotta M, Sisler J, Konrad G, Toftegaard BS, Thulesius H, Vedsted P, Young J, Hamilton W, The ICBP Module 3 Working Group* (*includes Dr Anna Gavin).  Explaining variation in cancer survival between 11 jurisdictions in the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership: a primary care vignette survey.  BMJ Open 2015; 5:e007212 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007212 (IF 2.271) 

Coleman HG, Loughrey MB, Murray LJ, Johnston BT, Gavin A, Shrubsole MJ, Bhat SK, Allen PB, McConnell V, Cantwell MM. Colorectal cancer risk following adenoma removal: a large prospective population-based cohort study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2015; 24(9):1373-80. Epub June 16. (IF 4.125) 

Crocetti E, Mallone S, Eid Robsahm T, Gavin A, Agius D, Ardanaz E,  Chirlaque Lopez MD, Innos K, Minicozzi P, Borgognoni L, Pierannunzio D, Eisemann N and the EUROCARE-5 Working Group. Survival of patients with skin melanoma in Europe increases further: Results of the EUROCARE-5 study.  European Journal of Cancer 2015; 51: Issue 15; 2179–2190 doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.039 (IF 5.417). 

Rossi S, Baili P, Capocaccia R, Caldora M, Carrani E, et al and the EUROCARE-5 Working Group. The EUROCARE-5 study on cancer survival in Europe 1999–2007: Database, quality checks and statistical analysis methods.   European Journal of Cancer 2015; 51: 15; 2104–2119; doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2015.08.001 

Santin S, Murray L, Prue G, Gavin A, Gormley G, Donnelly M.  Self-reported psychosocial needs and health-related quality of life of colorectal cancer survivors.  European Journal of Oncology Nursing 2015; 19; 336-342 doi:10.1016/j.ejon.2015.01.009. Epub 2015 May 20.

Anderson L.A, Tavilla A, Brenner H, Luttmann S, Navarro C, Gavin A, Holleczek B, Johnston, B.T, Cook M.B, Bannon F, Sant M. and the EUROCARE-5 Working Group.  Survival for oesophageal, stomach and small intestine cancers in Europe 1999–2007: Results from EUROCARE-5. European Journal of Cancer  2015; 51: 15; 2144–2157; doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.026 

Drummond FJ, Kinnear H, Donnelly C, O'Leary E,  O'Brien K, Burns RM, Gavin A, Sharp L. Establishing a population-based patient-reported outcomes study (PROMs) using national cancer registries across two jurisdictions; The Prostate Cancer Treatment, your experience (PiCTure) Study. BMJ Open. 2015 Apr 17;5(4). doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006851

Gavin A, Drummond FJ, Donnelly C, O'Leary E, Sharp L, Kinnear HR.  Patient reported “ever had” and “current” long term physical symptoms following prostate cancer treatments.  BJU International 2015, Jan.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111.Epub 2015 Jun 22.  (was the featured article of the month and attracted the editorial) It also has an accompanying short video summarising the study available here

Quaife SL, Winstanley K, Robb KA, Simon AE, Ramirez AJ, Forbes LJL, Brain KE, Gavin A, Wardle J. Socioeconomic inequalities in attitudes to cancer: an International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership study.  European Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2015 May;24(3):253-60. doi: 10.1097/CEJ.0000000000000140.

O'Leary E, Drummond FJ, Gavin A, Kinnear H and Sharp L.  Psychometric evaluation of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 questionnaire in assessing health-related quality-of-life in prostate cancer survivors: a curate's egg.  Qual Life Res. 2015 Sep;24(9):2219-30. doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-0958-y. Epub 2015 Mar 20.

Kearney TM, Donnelly C, Kelly JM, O’Callaghan EP, Fox CR, Gavin A.  Validation of completeness and accuracy of the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry. Cancer Epidemiol. 2015 Mar 11. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2015.02.005. Epub 2015 Mar 12. 

Allemani C, Weir HK, Carreira H, Harewood R, Spika D, Wang X, Bannon F, Ahn JV, Johnson CJ, Bonaventure A, Marcos-Gragera R, Stiller C, Silva GAE, Chen W, Ogunbiyi OJ, Rachet B, Soeberg MJ, You H, Matsuda T, Bielska-Lasota M, Storm H, Tucker TC, Coleman MP, the CONCORD Working Group.  Global surveillance of cancer survival 1995–2009: analysis of individual data for 25,676,887 patients from 279 population-based registries in 67 countries (CONCORD-2). Lancet. 2015 Mar 14;385(9972):977-1010. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62038-9. Epub 2014 Nov 26.

Drummond FJ, Kinnear H, O’Leary E, Donnelly C, Gavin A, Sharp L.  Long-term health-related quality of life of prostate cancer survivors varies by primary treatment.  Results from the PiCTure (Prostate Cancer Treatment, your experience) study.  J Cancer Surviv. 2015 Jun;9(2):361-72. doi: 10.1007/s11764-014-0419-6. Epub 2015 Jan 7.

Gavin A, Rous B, Marcos-Gragera R, Middleton R, Steliarova-Foucher E, Maynadie M, Zanetti R, Visser O.  Towards optimal clinical and epidemiological registration of Haematological Malignancies: guidelines for recording progressions, transformations and multiple diagnoses.  Eur J Cancer. 2015 Jun;51(9):1109-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2014.02.008. Epub 12 Mar 2014.

Rose PW, Rubin G, Perera-Salazar R, Almberg SS, Barisic A, Dawes M, Grunfeld E, Hart N, Neal RD, Pirotta M, Sisler J, Konrad G, Toftegaard BS, Thulesius H, Vedsted P, Young J, Hamilton W, The ICBP Module 3 Working Group* (*includes Dr Anna Gavin).  Explaining variation in cancer survival between 11 jurisdictions in the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership: a primary care vignette survey.  BMJ Open May 2015;5:e007212 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007212 (IF 2.271)

Zanetti R, Schmidtmann I, Sacchetto L, Binder-Foucard F, Bordoni A, Coza D, Ferretti S, Galceran J, Gavin A, Larranaga N, Robinson D, Tryggvadottir L, Van Eycken E, Zadnik V, Coebergh JWW, Rosso S.  Completeness and timeliness: Cancer registries could/should improve their performance.  Eur J Cancer. 2015 Jun;51(9):1091-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2013.11.040. Epub 3 Jan 2014.

Holleczek, Bernd; Rossi, Silvia; ...; Gavin A; Fitzpatrick D et al. On-going improvement and persistent differences in the survival for patients with colon and rectum cancer across Europe 1999–2007–results from the EUROCARE-5 study. European Journal of Cancer October 2015.5. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.024.

Baili, Paolo; Di Salvo, Francesca; ...; Gavin A; Fitzpatrick D et al. Age and case mix-standardised survival for all cancer patients in Europe 1999–2007: results of EUROCARE-5, a population-based study. European journal of cancer October 2015,5. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.025

Gatta, Gemma; Botta, Laura; ...; Gavin A; Fitzpatrick D et al. Prognoses and improvement for head and neck cancers diagnosed in Europe in early 2000s: The EUROCARE-5 population-based study. European journal of cancer October 2015. European journal of cancer October 2015. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.043. 

Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Mallone, Sandra; ... ; Gavin A; Fitzpatrick D et al. Urinary tract cancer survival in Europe 1999–2007: results of the population-based study EUROCARE-5. European Journal of Cancer October 2015. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2015.07.028.

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