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Gormley GJ, Catney D, McCall JR, Reilly PM, Gavin AT.  Prostate-specific antigen testing: uncovering primary care influences. British Journal Urology International, November 2006, doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06481.x.

Gavin AT, McCarron P, Middleton RJ, Savage G, Catney D, O'Reilly D, Keane PF, Murray LJ. Evidence of prostate cancer screening in a UK region. British Journal of Urology International, online March 2004, DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04716.x

Sarah Wilding, Amy Downing, Peter Selby, William Cross, Penny Wright, Eila K Watson, Richard Wagland, Paul Kind, David W Donnelly, Luke Hounsome, Rebecca Mottram, Majorie Allen, Therese Kearney, Hugh Butcher, Anna Gavin, Adam Glaser. Decision regret in men living with and beyond non-metastatic prostate cancer in the UK: a population-based patient-reported outcome study. Physco-oncology February 2020. doi.org/10.1002/pon.5362. Implications of Research for Services.

Manisha Baden, Liya Lu, Frances J. Drummond, Anna Gavin, Linda Sharp. Pain, fatigue and depression symptom cluster in survivors of prostate cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer January 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s00520-019-05268-0. Implications of Research for Services.

Lauren Matheson, Johana Nayoan, Carol Rivas, Jo Brett, Penny Wright, Hugh Butcher, Anna Gavin, Adam Glaser , Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, A Qualitative Exploration of Prostate Cancer Survivors Experiencing Psychological Distress: Loss of Self, Function, Connection, and Control, Oncology Nursing Forum, Published May 2020. DOI 10.1188/20.ONF.318-330. Implications of research.

Liya Lu, Anna Gavin, Frances J. Drummond, Linda Sharp, Cumulative financial stress as a potential risk factor for cancer-related fatigue among prostate cancer survivors, Journal of Cancer Survivorship, Published August 2020, DOI 10.1007/s11764-020-00906-7, Implications of research

Lauren Matheson, Jo Nayoan*, Carol Rivas, Jo Brett, Penny Wright, Hugh Butcher, Paul Jordan, Anna Gavin, Adam Glaser, Malcolm Mason, Richard Wagland*, Eila Watson* (*joint last authors), Strategies for living well with hormone-responsive advanced prostate cancer—a qualitative exploration, Supportive Care in Cancer Journal Published July 2020, DOI 10.1007/s00520-020-05594-8, Implications of research.

Lesley Smith, Amy Downing, Paul Norman, Penny Wright, Luke Hounsome, Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, Peter Selby, Paul Kind, David W Donnelly, Hugh Butcher, Dyfed Huws, Emma McNair, Anna Gavin*, Adam W Glaser* * Joint senior author, Influence of deprivation and rurality on patient-reported outcomes of men living with and beyond prostate cancer diagnosis in the UK: a population-based study, Cancer Epidemiology Journal Published Sept 2020, DOI doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2020.101830, Implications of research.

Collaço, N., Wagland, R., Alexis, O., Gavin, A., Glaser, A., & Watson, E. K. The experiences and needs of couples affected by prostate cancer aged 65 and under :a qualitative study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. Sept 2020. doi: 10.1007/s11764-020-00936-1. Implications of Research

Maguire, R., Drummond, F. J., Hanly, P., Gavin, A., & Sharp, L. Problems sleeping with prostate cancer: exploring possible risk factors for sleep disturbance in a population-based sample of survivors. Supportive Care in Cancer January 2019. doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4633-z. Implications of Research.

Amy Downing, Penny Wright, Luke Hounsome, Peter Selby, Sarah Wilding, Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, Paul Kind, David W Donnelly, Hugh Butcher, James W F Catto, William Cross, Malcolm Mason, Linda Sharp, David Weller, Galina Velikova, Eilis McCaughan, Rebecca Mottram, Majorie Allen, Therese Kearney, Oonagh McSorley, Dyfed W Huws, David H Brewster, Emma McNair, Anna Gavin*, Adam W Glaser. Quality of life in men living with advanced and localised prostate cancer in the UK: a population-based study. Lancet oncology January 2019. doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30780-0. Implications of Research for Services

Collaço N, Wagland R, Alexis O, Gavin A, Glaser A, Watson EK. The challenges on the family unit faced by younger couples affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study. Psychooncology 2018. Feb 2019. 10.1002/pon.4944. Epub 2018 Dec 3. Implications of Research for Services

Penny Wright, Sarah Wilding, Eila Watson, Amy Downing, Peter Selby, Luke Hounsome Richard Wagland, David H Brewster, Dyfed Huws, Hugh Butche1, Rebecca Mottram, Therese Kearney, Majorie Allen, Anna Gavin*, Adam Glaser. Key factors associated with social distress after prostate cancer: results from the United Kingdom Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis study. Cancer epidemiology. Cancer epidemiology May 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2019.04.006. Implications of Research for Services.

Richard Wagland, Johana Nayoan, Lauren Matheson, Carol Rivas, Jo Brett, Nicole Collaço, Obrey Alexis, Anna Gavin, Adam W Glaser, Eila Watson. Adjustment strategies amongst black African and black Caribbean men following treatment for prostate cancer: findings from the Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (LAPCD) study. European Journal of Cancer Care October 2019. DOI 10.1111/ecc.13183. Implications of Research for Services

David W Donnelly, Linda C Vis, Therese Kearney, Linda Sharp, Damien Bennett, Sarah Wilding, Amy Downing, Penny Wright, Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, William R Cross, Malcolm D Mason, Sabine Siesling, Jeannette G van Manen, Adam W Glaser, Anna Gavin. Quality of life among symptomatic compared to PSA-detected prostate cancer survivors - Results from a UK wide patient-reported outcomes study. BMC Cancer October 2019. DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-6164-5. Implications of Research for Services

Lauren Matheson, Sarah Wilding, Richard Wagland, Johana Nayoan, Carol Rivas, Amy Downing, Penny Wright, Jo Brett, Therese Kearney, William Cross, Adam W Glaser, Anna Gavin, Eila Watson.  The psychological impact of being on a monitoring pathway for localised prostate cancer: a UK-wide mixed methods study. Psycho-oncology May 2019. DOI: 10.1002/pon.5133. Implications of Research for Services

Sarah Wilding, Amy Downing, Penny Wright, Peter Selby, Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, David W Donnelly, Luke Hounsome, Hugh Butcher, Malcolm Mason, Ann Henry, Anna Gavin, Adam W Glaser. Cancer-related symptoms, mental well-being and psychological distress in men diagnosed with prostate cancer treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT). Quality of Life Research May 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11136-019-02212-x. Implications of Research for Services

David W Donnelly*, Anna Gavin*, Amy Downing, Luke Hounsomed, Therese Kearney, Emma McNair, Dawn Allanf, Dyfed W Huws , Penny Wright, Peter J Selby, Paul Kind, Eila Watson, Richard Wagland, Sarah Wilding, Hugh Butcher, Rebecca Mottram, Majorie Allen, Oonagh McSorley, Linda Sharp, Malcolm D Mason, William R Cross, James WF Catto, Adam W Glaser. Regional variations in quality of survival among men with prostate cancer across the United Kingdom. European Urology April 2019. doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2019.04.018. Implications of Research for Services

Damien Bennett,Therese Kearney, David W. Donnelly, Amy Downing, Penny Wright, Sarah Wilding, Richard Wagland, Eila Watson, Adam Glaser, Anna Gavin. Factors influencing job loss and early retirement in working men with prostate cancer—findings from the population-based Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (LAPCD) study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship 30th July 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s11764-018-0704-x. Implications of Research.

Drummond FJ, Gavin AT, Sharp L. Incongruence in treatment decision making is associated with lower health-related quality of life among prostate cancer survivors: results from the PiCTure study. Support Care Cancer 2018; 26:1645-1654. doi: 10.1007/s00520-017-3994-z. Implications of Research for Services

Maguire R, Hanly P, Drummond FJ, Gavin A, Sharp L. Expecting the worst? The relationship between retrospective and prospective appraisals of illness on quality of life in prostate cancer survivors. Psychooncology 2018; 27:1237-1243. doi: 10.1002/pon.4660, Implications of Research for Services

Sharp L, Morgan E, Drummond FJ, Gavin A. The psychological impact of prostate biopsy: Prevalence and predictors of procedure-related distress. Psychoncology 2018; 27:500-507. doi: 10.1002/pon.4521. Implications of Research for Services

Steentjes L, Siesling S, Drummond FJ, … , Gavin A. Factors associated with current and severe physical side-effects after prostate cancer treatment: What men report. Eur J Cancer Care 2018; 27:e12589. doi: 10.1111/ecc.12589. Implications of Research for Services

Rebecca Maguire, Paul Hanly, Frances J. Drummond, Anna Gavin, Linda Sharp. Expecting the worst? The relationship between retrospective and prospective appraisals of illness on quality of life in prostate cancer survivors. Psycho - Oncology 2018. Feb 2018. DOI: 10.1002/pon.4660. Implications of Research for Services

Wagland R, Nayoan J, Matheson L, Rivas C, Brett J, Downing A, Wilding S, Butcher H, Gavin A, Glaser AW, Watson E. 'Very difficult for an ordinary guy': Factors influencing the quality of treatment decision-making amongst men diagnosed with localised and locally advanced prostate cancer: Findings from a UK-wide mixed methods study. Patient Education and Counselling Dec 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2018.12.004. Implications of Research for Services

Nicole Collaço Carol Rivas, Lauren Matheson, Johana Nayoan, Richard Wagland, Obrey Alexis, Anna Gavin, Adam Glaser,Eila Watson. Prostate cancer and the impact on couples: a qualitative metasynthesis. Supportive Care in Cancer March 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s00520-018-4134-0. Implications of Research for Services.

Drummond FJ, Gavin AT, Sharp L. Supportive medications and interventions received by prostate cancer survivors: results from the PiCTure study. JCSO 2017; 15:e309-313. doi:10.12788/jcso.0384

Maguire R, Hanly P, Drummond FJ, Gavin A, Sharp L. Regret and fear in prostate cancer: The relationship between treatment appraisals and fear of recurrence in prostate cancer survivors. Psychooncology 2017; 26:1825-1831. doi: 10.1002/pon.4384

Matheson L, Watson EK, Nayoan J, … , Gavin A, et al. A qualitative metasynthesis exploring the impact of prostate cancer and its management on younger, unpartnered and gay men. Eur J Cancer Care 2017; 26:e12676. doi:10.1111/ecc.12676

Morgan E, Drummond FJ, Coyle C, Sharp L, Gavin AT. Physical after-effects in men undergoing prostate biopsy in routine clinical practice: Results from the PiCTure study. Urol Oncol 2017; 35:604.e11-604.e16. doi:10.1016/j.urolonc.2017.06.003

Coyle C, Morgan E, Drummond FJ, Sharp L, Gavin A. Do men regret prostate biopsy: Results from the PiCTure study. BMC Urol 2017; 17:11. doi:10.1186/s12894-016-0194-y

Coyle C, Morgan E, Drummond FJ, Sharp L, Gavin A. Do Men Regret Prostate Biopsy: An observational study. Results from the PiCTure Study Decisional Regret following Prostate Biopsy.  Accepted by BMC Urology Dec 2016. DOI: 10.1186/s12894-016-0194-y Implications of Research for Services download

Gavin AT, Donnelly D, Donnelly C, Drummond FJ, Morgan E, Gormley GJ, Sharp L. Effect of more intense investigation and treatment of prostate cancer on survivor’s physical symptoms, psychological wellbeing and health related quality of life: a two country observational study. Accepted by BMJ Open 20 October 2016.

Sharp L, O'Leary E, Kinnear H, Gavin A, Drummond FJ. Cancer-related symptoms predict psychological wellbeing among prostate cancer survivors: results from the PiCTure study. Psycho-Oncology. 2016 Mar;25(3):282-91. doi: 10.1002/pon.3909. Epub 2015 Aug 6. Implications of Research for Services download

Drummond FJ, O'Leary E, Gavin A; Kinnear H, Sharp L.  Mode of prostate cancer detection is associated with the psychological wellbeing of survivors. Results from the PiCTure study.  Support Care Cancer. 2016 May;24(5):2297-307. doi: 10.1007/s00520-015-3033-x. Epub 2015 Nov 23.  Implications of Research for Services download

Rivas C, Matheson L, Nayoan J, Glaser A, Gavin A, Wright P, Wagland R, Watson E.  Ethnicity and the prostate cancer experience: a qualitative metasynthesis. Psychooncology. 2016 Oct;25(10):1147-1156. doi: 10.1002/pon.4222. Epub 2016 Aug 23. Implications of Research for Services download

Gnanapragasam VJ, Lophatananon A, Wright KA, Muir KR, Gavin A, Greenberg DC. Improving clinical risk stratification at diagnosis in primary prostate cancer: a prognostic modelling study. PLoS Med. 2016 Aug 2;13(8):e1002063. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002063. eCollection 2016. Implications of Research for Services download

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

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.

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.

Connolly D, Van Leeuwen PJ, Bailie J, Black A, Murray LJ, Keane PF, Gavin A. Daily, monthly and seasonal variation in prostate specific antigen levels and the association with weather parameters. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, March 2011,   doi:10.1038/pcan.2010.37.

van Leeuwen PJ, Connolly D, Tammela TLJ, Auvinen A, Kranse R, Roobol MJ, Schröder FH, Gavin AT.  Balancing the harms and benefits of early detection of prostate cancer. Cancer, October 2010, doi: 10.1002/cncr.25474.

Van Leeuwen PJ, Connolly D, Gavin A, Roobol MJ, Black A, Bangma CH, Schroder FH.  Prostate cancer mortality in screen and clinically detected prostate cancer: Estimating the screening benefit.  European Journal of Cancer, January 2010, doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2009.09.008.

Connolly D, Black A, Murray LJ, Nambirajan T, Keane PF, Gavin A. Repeating an abnormal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level: how relevant is a decrease in PSA? Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, March 2009, doi:10.1038/pcan.2008.37.

Connolly D, Black A, Murray L, Nambirajan T, Keane PF, Gavin AT.  The utility of prostate – specific antigen velocity thresholds in clinical practice: a population – based analysis. British Journal of Urology International, June 2008, doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07470.x.

Connolly D, Black A, Gavin AT, Keane PF, Murray L.  Baseline prostate-specific-antigen level and risk of prostate cancer and prostate-specific mortality: diagnosis is dependent on the intensity of investigation.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, February 2008, doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0515.

Connolly D, Black A, Murray L, Napolitano G, Gavin AT, Keane PF. Methods of calculating  prostate-specific antigen velocity. European Urology, October 2007, doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.12.017.

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