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List of works by David H. Brewster

A cancer geography paradox? Poorer cancer outcomes with longer travelling times to healthcare facilities despite prompter diagnosis and treatment: a data-linkage study

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A pooled analysis of second primary pancreatic cancer

scientific article published on 18 January 2006

Are there ethnic and religious variations in uptake of bowel cancer screening? A retrospective cohort study among 1.7 million people in Scotland

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Ascertainment of breast cancer by the Scottish Cancer Registry: An assessment based on comparison with five independent breast cancer trials databases

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Association between socioeconomic factors and cancer risk: a population cohort study in Scotland (1991-2006).

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Associations between ocular melanoma and other primary cancers: an international population-based study

scientific article published in January 2007

Associations between small intestine cancer and other primary cancers: an international population-based study

scientific article published on January 2006

Benefits and limitations of pathology databases to cancer registries

scientific article published on November 1996

Benefits of specialisation in the management of pancreatic cancer: results of a Scottish population-based study.

scientific article published on August 2004

Beware using secular trends in deaths to judge effectiveness of breast screening

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Breast, lung and colorectal cancer incidence and survival in South Thames Region, 1987-1992: the effect of social deprivation

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Cancer Incidence in Five Continents: Inclusion criteria, highlights from Volume X and the global status of cancer registration.

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Cancer prevalence in the United Kingdom: estimates for 2008.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality among women with a history of endometrial cancer

scientific article (publication date: 4 June 2007)

Cancers of unknown primary diagnosed during hospitalization: a population-based study

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

Cardiovascular disease and air pollution in Scotland: no association or insufficient data and study design?

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Cause-specific mortality in Scottish patients with colorectal cancer with and without type 2 diabetes (2000–2007)

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Changing trends in incidence and mortality of thyroid cancer in Scotland

scientific article published in February 2005

Changing trends in incidence of lung cancer by histologic type in Scotland

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Characteristics of patients dying within 30 days of diagnosis of breast or colorectal cancer in Scotland, 2003-2007.

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Chemotherapy effectiveness in trial-underrepresented groups with early breast cancer: A retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Clinical relevance of conditional survival of cancer patients in europe: age-specific analyses of 13 cancers.

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Cohort profile: Scottish health and ethnicity linkage study of 4.65 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease in Scotland.

scientific article published on 24 July 2010

Colorectal cancer survival in the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom: excess mortality risk analysis of 5 year relative period survival in the period 1999 to 2000.

scientific article published on September 2007

Completeness of case ascertainment in a Scottish regional cancer registry for the year 1992

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Completeness of primary intracranial tumour recording in the Scottish Cancer Registry 2011-2012.

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Cumulative impact of common genetic variants and other risk factors on colorectal cancer risk in 42,103 individuals

scientific article published on 05 April 2012

Data accuracy and completeness: general practitioner versus hospitals

scientific article published on August 1996

Declining breast cancer incidence and decreased HRT use.

scientific article published in February 2009

Declining hysterectomy prevalence and the estimated impact on uterine cancer incidence in Scotland

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Descriptive epidemiology of cancer of unknown primary site in Scotland, 1961-2010.

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Diagnostic routes and time intervals for patients with colorectal cancer in 10 international jurisdictions; findings from a cross-sectional study from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP)

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Distribution of HPV types associated with cervical cancers in Scotland and implications for the impact of HPV vaccines.

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Does solar exposure, as indicated by the non-melanoma skin cancers, protect from solid cancers: vitamin D as a possible explanation

scientific article published on 30 May 2007

Does the 'Scottish effect' apply to all ethnic groups? All-cancer, lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer in the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Cohort Study

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Early management of myocardial infarction. Lack of knowledge is not the problem

scientific article published on April 1994

Effect of Gender, Age and Deprivation on Key Performance Indicators in a Fobt-based Colorectal Screening Programme

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Effect of longer health service provider delays on stage at diagnosis and mortality in symptomatic breast cancer

scientific article published on 7 March 2015

Enterobius vermicularis: a possible cause of intestinal colic?

scientific article published in September 1989

Epidemiology of gallbladder cancer and trends in cholecystectomy rates in Scotland, 1968-1998.

scientific article published in September 2003

European health systems and cancer care

scientific article published in January 2003

Fastest increasing cancer in Scotland, especially in men

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Guidelines for confidentiality and cancer registration

scientific article published in June 2005

Harmonization may be counterproductive--at least for parts of Europe where public health research operates effectively

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High constant incidence rates of second primary cancers of the head and neck: a pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries

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How accurate are Scottish cancer registration data?

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Impact of a cancer registry-based genealogy service to support clinical genetics services

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Impact of faecal occult blood test screening on emergency admissions and short-term outcomes for colorectal cancer

scientific article published on 13 September 2014

Impact of rurality on processes and outcomes in melanoma care: results from a whole-Scotland melanoma cohort in primary and secondary care

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Impact of the UK colorectal cancer screening pilot studies on incidence, stage distribution and mortality trends.

scientific article published on 14 March 2012

Impact of variation in cancer registration practice on observed international cancer survival differences between International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) jurisdictions

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Improved Treatment and Survival for Lung Cancer Patients in South-East Scotland

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Improved survival from lung cancer in British Columbia compared to Scotland—Are different treatment rates the whole story?

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Improvements in survival for women with breast cancer in Scotland between 1987 and 1993: impact of earlier diagnosis and changes in treatment

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Improving the quality of cancer registration data ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1995

Incidence of and mortality from breast cancer since introduction of screening. Scottish figures show higher incidence and similar mortality

scientific article published in March 1996

Incidence of and mortality from breast cancer since introduction of screening. Several factors must have a role in improved figures

scientific article published in March 1996

Incidence of malignant neoplasms among HIV-infected persons in Scotland.

scientific article published on August 2003

Increasing incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus in Scotland, 1975–2002.

scientific article published in August 2006

Increasing survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients in Scotland: a review of national cancer registry data

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Independent validation of the PREDICT breast cancer prognosis prediction tool in 45,789 patients using Scottish Cancer Registry data

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Influence of HPV type on prognosis in patients diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Informed consent. Explicit consent is not needed for studies using medical records

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

International comparisons of survival from lung cancer: pitfalls and warnings

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Interval cancers in a FOBT-based colorectal cancer population screening programme: implications for stage, gender and tumour site

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

Interval cancers in a national colorectal cancer screening programme.

scientific article published on 06 January 2016

Introduction

Investigation of the international comparability of population-based routine hospital data set derived comorbidity scores for patients with lung cancer ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Is initial excision of cutaneous melanoma by General Practitioners (GPs) dangerous? Comparing patient outcomes following excision of melanoma by GPs or in hospital using national datasets and meta-analysis

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Is the Scottish population living dangerously? Prevalence of multiple risk factors: the Scottish Health Survey 2003.

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Key factors associated with social distress after prostate cancer: Results from the United Kingdom Life after Prostate Cancer diagnosis study

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Left-Sided Excess in the Laterality of Cutaneous Melanoma

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Left-sided excess of invasive cutaneous melanoma ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Left-sided excess of invasive cutaneous melanoma in six countries

scientific article published on 07 November 2007

Life after prostate cancer diagnosis: protocol for a UK-wide patient-reported outcomes study ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 December 2016

Lung cancer: the importance of seeing a respiratory physician

scientific article published in April 2003

Major ethnic group differences in breast cancer screening uptake in Scotland are not extinguished by adjustment for indices of geographical residence, area deprivation, long-term illness and education

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Meningococcal infections and the general practitioner.

scientific article published in March 1992

Metformin and survival of people with type 2 diabetes and pleural mesothelioma: A population-based retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Methodology for lognormal modelling of malignant pleural mesothelioma survival time distributions: a study of 5580 case histories from Europe and USA.

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Model-based projections for deriving up-to-date cancer survival estimates: an international evaluation

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Nasopharyngeal cancer incidence and survival in Scotland, 1975–2001

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National study of cause-specific mortality in rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile chronic arthritis, and other rheumatic conditions: a 20 year followup study

scientific article published in May 2003

Negative screening colonoscopy after a positive guaiac faecal occult blood test: not a contraindication to continued screening.

scientific article published in August 2012

Occult blood in faeces is associated with all-cause and non-colorectal cancer mortality

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Pathways to diagnosis of a second primary cancer: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Patterns of referral, management and survival of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer in Scotland during 1988 and 1993: results of a national, retrospective population-based audit

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Perinatal risks in female cancer survivors: A population-based analysis

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Pleural mesothelioma incidence in Europe: evidence of some deceleration in the increasing trends

scientific article published on October 2003

Policy for home or hospice as the preferred place of death from cancer: Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study population cohort shows challenges across all ethnic groups in Scotland

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Population-based cancer registries: the invisible key to cancer control

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Population-based estimates of the occurrence of multiple vs first primary basal cell carcinomas in 4 European regions

scientific article published on March 2012

Prevalence of family history of colorectal cancer in the general population

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Prognostic factors in women with breast cancer: distribution by socioeconomic status and effect on differences in survival

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Prognostic indicators for gastrointestinal stromal tumours: a clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of 108 resected cases of the stomach

scientific article published in August 2003

Quality of life in men living with advanced and localised prostate cancer in the UK: a population-based study

article by Amy Downing et al published March 2019 in Lancet Oncology Commission

Real-world evidence was feasible for estimating effectiveness of chemotherapy in breast cancer: a cohort study

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Recent trends in incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers in the East of Scotland, 1992-2003.

scientific article published on June 2007

Rectal cancer survival in the Nordic countries and Scotland

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Reduced risk of oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer among peri- and post-menopausal women in Scotland following a striking decrease in use of hormone replacement therapy

scientific article published in February 2010

Registration of colorectal cancer in Scotland: An assessment of data accuracy based on review of medical records ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

Registration of non-melanoma skin cancers in Scotland--how accurate are site and morphology codes?

scientific article published in September 1995

Response to Crocetti et al

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Rising incidence of prostate cancer in Scotland: increased risk or increased detection?

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Risk of breast cancer after miscarriage or induced abortion: a Scottish record linkage case-control study

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Risk of cancer following primary total hip replacement or primary resurfacing arthroplasty of the hip: a retrospective cohort study in Scotland

scientific article published on 2 April 2013

Risk of hospitalization and death following prostate biopsy in Scotland

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Risk of malignancy among patients with rheumatic conditions

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Risk of malignancy among patients with rheumatic conditions

Risk of oesophageal cancer among patients previously hospitalised with eating disorder

Risk of second cancer among women with breast cancer

article by Lene Mellemkjær et al published 2006 in International Journal of Cancer

Risk of second malignant neoplasms after childhood central nervous system malignant tumours: an international study.

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Risk of second malignant neoplasms after childhood leukemia and lymphoma: an international study

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Risk of second primary cancer among esophageal cancer patients: a pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries

scientific article published on June 2008

Risk of second primary cancer among patients with head and neck cancers: A pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries

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Risk of skin cancer after neonatal phototherapy: retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Routinely collected data in national and regional databases--an under-used resource.

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SV40 Tag DNA sequences, present in a small proportion of human hepatocellular carcinomas, are associated with reduced survival.

scientific article published on December 2003

Seasonal variation in diagnosis of invasive cutaneous melanoma in Eastern England and Scotland. ⬇️

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Second malignancies after childhood noncentral nervous system solid cancer: Results from 13 cancer registries

article by Milena Maule et al published 21 July 2011 in International Journal of Cancer

Second malignancies among survivors of germ-cell testicular cancer: A pooled analysis between 13 cancer registries

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Second primary cancers in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries

scientific article published on 19 January 2007

Second primary cancers in thyroid cancer patients: a multinational record linkage study

scientific article published on 14 February 2006

Second primary malignancies among women with uterine sarcoma

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Second primary malignancies in females with primary fallopian tube cancer

scientific article published on May 2007

Should we use total mortality rather than cancer specific mortality to judge cancer screening programmes? No

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Small intestinal cancer in England & Wales and Scotland: time trends in incidence, mortality and survival

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Socioeconomic inequalities in incidence of lung and upper aero-digestive tract cancer by age, tumour subtype and sex: a population-based study in Scotland (2000-2007).

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Socioeconomic status and risk of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and cancer of the gastric cardia in Scotland

scientific article published on August 2000

Subsequent hospitalisation experience of 5-year survivors of childhood, adolescent, and young adult cancer in Scotland: a population based, retrospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Subsequent mortality experience in five-year survivors of childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer in Scotland: A population based, retrospective cohort study

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Surveillance of measles in Scotland 1983-1991; a comparison of statutory notification and laboratory reporting

scientific article published in September 1993

Survival from twenty adult cancers in the UK and Republic of Ireland in the late twentieth century

scientific article published on January 2010

Survival is multifactorial

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Survival of adults with cancers of bone or soft tissue in Europe-Report from the EUROCARE-5 study

Survival variations by country and age for lymphoid and myeloid malignancies in Europe 2000-2007: Results of EUROCARE-5 population-based study

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Testicular germ-cell tumours and penile squamous cell carcinoma: Appropriate management makes the difference

The epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease in Scotland prior to immunisation

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The epidemiology of lung cancer in Scotland: a review of trends in incidence, survival and mortality and prospects for prevention.

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The impact of cancer on subsequent chance of pregnancy: a population-based analysis.

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The impact of population-based faecal occult blood test screening on colorectal cancer mortality: a matched cohort study ⬇️

scientific article published on June 26, 2012

The relationship between hospital volume and post-operative mortality rates for upper gastrointestinal cancer resections: Scotland 1982-2003.

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Time from first presentation in primary care to treatment of symptomatic colorectal cancer: effect on disease stage and survival.

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Time intervals and routes to diagnosis for lung cancer in 10 jurisdictions: cross-sectional study findings from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP)

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Scotland: description and possible explanations.

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Trends in incidence of and mortality from invasive cancer of the uterine cervix in Scotland (1975-1994).

scientific article published in November 1998

Trends in incidence of thick, thin and in situ melanoma in Europe.

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

Trends in skin cancer incidence by socioeconomic position in Scotland, 1978-2004

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Type 2 diabetes, socioeconomic status and risk of cancer in Scotland 2001-2007.

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Up-to-date estimates of breast cancer survival for the years 2000-2004 in 11 European countries: the role of screening and a comparison with data from the United States.

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Urinary, bowel and sexual health in older men from Northern Ireland. ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Why is mortality higher in Scotland than in England and Wales? Decreasing influence of socioeconomic deprivation between 1981 and 2001 supports the existence of a 'Scottish Effect'.

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Worldwide Inverse Association between Gastric Cancer and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Suggesting a Common Environmental Factor Exerting Opposing Effects

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