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Open AccessIncreasing access to fertility preservation for women with breast cancer: protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial in France
With the increase in the number of long-term survivors, interest is shifting from cancer survival to life and quality of life after cancer. These include consequences of long-term side effects of treatment, su...
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Open AccessImpact of a health literacy intervention combining general practitioner training and a consumer facing intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening in underserved areas: protocol for a multicentric cluster randomized controlled trial
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer burden worldwide. In France, it is the second most common cause of cancer death after lung cancer. Systematic uptake of CRC screening can improve survival r...
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Population-Based Cancer Registries: A Data Stream to Help Build an Evidence-Based Cancer Policy for Europe and for European Countries
A population-based cancer registry (PBCR) is an ongoing surveillance system to collect, store, manage, analyse and disseminate information on the occurrence of cancer in a defined population. Modern cancer reg...
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Open AccessUsing ecological socioeconomic position (SEP) measures to deal with sample bias introduced by incomplete individual-level measures: inequalities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis as an example
When studying the influence of socioeconomic position (SEP) on health from data where individual-level SEP measures may be missing, ecological measures of SEP may prove helpful. In this paper, we illustrate th...
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Open AccessAssessment of the ecological bias of seven aggregate social deprivation indices
In aggregate studies, ecological indices are used to study the influence of socioeconomic status on health. Their main limitation is ecological bias. This study assesses the misclassification of individual soc...
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Open AccessAdverse childhood experiences and premature all-cause mortality
Events causing stress responses during sensitive periods of rapid neurological development in childhood may be early determinants of all-cause premature mortality. Using a British birth cohort study of individ...
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Open AccessChildhood adversity as a risk for cancer: findings from the 1958 British birth cohort study
To analyse whether Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) are associated with an increased risk of cancer.
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Prospective studies of dietary alpha-linolenic acid intake and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis
Individual-based studies that investigated the relation between dietary alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) intake and prostate cancer risk have shown inconsistent results. We carried out a meta-analysis of prospective...
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Estimating infra-national and national thyroid cancer incidence in France from cancer registries data and national hospital discharge database
As in many countries, cancer registries cover only part of the population in France. Incidence/mortality ratio observed in registries is usually extrapolated to produce national estimates of cancer incidence. ...
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Participation Behavior of Bladder Cancer Survivors in a Medical Follow-Up Surveyon Quality of Life in France
The objectives were to ascertain the socio-demographic background of bladder cancer survivors acting on their participation behavior to a medical follow-up survey. This population-based quality of life (QOL) s...
