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    Elevated ASCL1 activity creates de novo regulatory elements associated with neuronal differentiation

    The pro-neural transcription factor ASCL1 is a master regulator of neurogenesis and a key factor necessary for the reprogramming of permissive cell types to neurons. Endogenously, ASCL1 expression is often ass...

    Laura M. Woods, Fahad R. Ali, Roshna Gomez, Igor Chernukhin, Daniel Marcos in BMC Genomics (2022)

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    An investigation of cancer survival inequalities associated with individual-level socio-economic status, area-level deprivation, and contextual effects, in a cancer patient cohort in England and Wales

    People living in more deprived areas of high-income countries have lower cancer survival than those in less deprived areas. However, associations between individual-level socio-economic circumstances and cance...

    Fiona C. Ingleby, Laura M. Woods, Iain M. Atherton, Matthew Baker in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Are socio-economic inequalities in breast cancer survival explained by peri-diagnostic factors?

    Patients living in more deprived localities have lower cancer survival in England, but the role of individual health status at diagnosis and the utilisation of primary health care in explaining these different...

    Laura M. Woods, Bernard Rachet, Melanie Morris, Krishnan Bhaskaran in BMC Cancer (2021)

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    Life tables for global surveillance of cancer survival (the CONCORD programme): data sources and methods

    We set out to estimate net survival trends for 10 common cancers in 279 cancer registry populations in 67 countries around the world, as part of the CONCORD-2 study. Net survival can be interpreted as the prop...

    Devon Spika, Finian Bannon, Audrey Bonaventure, Laura M Woods, Rhea Harewood in BMC Cancer (2017)

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    Multivariable flexible modelling for estimating complete, smoothed life tables for sub-national populations

    The methods currently available to estimate age- and sex-specific mortality rates for sub-populations are subject to a number of important limitations. We propose two alternative multivariable approaches: a re...

    Bernard Rachet, Camille Maringe, Laura M. Woods, Libby Ellis in BMC Public Health (2015)

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

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    Laura M Woods, Bernard Rachet, Lorraine Shack, Denise Catney in Health Statistics Quarterly (2010)