9 results on '"Cunningham, D."'
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2. Survival from cancer of the stomach in England and Wales up to 2001.
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Rao, S. and Cunningham, D.
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STOMACH cancer treatment , *CANCER diagnosis , *BIOPSY - Abstract
The article presents a study about the survival from gastric cancer in England and Wales up to 2001. It notes on the characteristics of the cancer by nonspecific symptoms including weight loss, anorexia, epigastric discomfort, and vomiting of blood, hence, diagnosis is done such as by endoscopy and biopsy and CT scans of the chest, abdomen and pelvis to study the disease. Moreover, it cites on other prognostic and predictive factors for gastric cancer diagnosis. .
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- 2008
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3. Survival from cancer of the pancreas in England and Wales up to 2001.
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Starling, N. and Cunningham, D.
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PANCREATIC cancer , *CANCER patients , *PROGNOSIS , *CANCER treatment - Abstract
The article presents a study about the survival from pancreatic cancer in England and Wales up to 2001. It notes that most patients with pancreatic cancer present with advanced disease with only 10% of them have operable tumors to the pancreas, hence, earlier diagnosis and new therapeutic advances are required to improve this situation and survival trend. Moreover, it cites on the significant resources being applied to clarify the pathophysiological mechanisms of pancreatic cancer.
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- 2008
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4. Ethnic and socioeconomic variation in incidence of congenital heart defects.
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Knowles RL, Ridout D, Crowe S, Bull C, Wray J, Tregay J, Franklin RC, Barron DJ, Cunningham D, Parslow RC, and Brown KL
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- Asian People statistics & numerical data, Black People statistics & numerical data, England epidemiology, Female, Heart Defects, Congenital diagnosis, Heart Defects, Congenital therapy, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric statistics & numerical data, Male, Medical Audit, Poverty Areas, Prenatal Diagnosis statistics & numerical data, Socioeconomic Factors, Wales epidemiology, Heart Defects, Congenital ethnology
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Introduction: Ethnic differences in the birth prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHDs) have been reported; however, studies of the contemporary UK population are lacking. We investigated ethnic variations in incidence of serious CHDs requiring cardiac intervention before 1 year of age., Methods: All infants who had a cardiac intervention in England and Wales between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2010 were identified in the national congenital heart disease surgical audit and matched with paediatric intensive care admission records to create linked individual child records. Agreement in reporting of ethnic group by each audit was evaluated. For infants born 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2009, we calculated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for CHDs by ethnicity and investigated age at intervention, antenatal diagnosis and area deprivation., Results: We identified 5350 infants (2940 (55.0%) boys). Overall CHD incidence was significantly higher in Asian and Black ethnic groups compared with the White reference population (incidence rate ratios (IRR) (95% CIs): Asian 1.5 (1.4 to 1.7); Black 1.4 (1.3 to 1.6)); incidence of specific CHDs varied by ethnicity. No significant differences in age at intervention or antenatal diagnosis rates were identified but affected children from non-White ethnic groups were more likely to be living in deprived areas than White children., Conclusions: Significant ethnic variations exist in the incidence of CHDs, including for specific defects with high infant mortality. It is essential that healthcare provision mitigates ethnic disparity, including through timely identification of CHDs at screening, supporting parental choice and effective interventions. Future research should explore the factors underlying ethnic variation and impact on longer-term outcomes., Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared., (Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.)
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- 2017
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5. Death and Emergency Readmission of Infants Discharged After Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease: A National Study of 7643 Infants to Inform Service Improvement.
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Crowe S, Ridout DA, Knowles R, Tregay J, Wray J, Barron DJ, Cunningham D, Parslow RC, Utley M, Franklin R, Bull C, and Brown KL
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- Clinical Audit, England epidemiology, Female, Humans, Infant, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric, Length of Stay, Logistic Models, Male, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Patient Discharge, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Wales epidemiology, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Emergencies, Heart Defects, Congenital surgery, Mortality, Patient Readmission statistics & numerical data
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Background: Improvements in hospital-based care have reduced early mortality in congenital heart disease. Later adverse outcomes may be reducible by focusing on care at or after discharge. We aimed to identify risk factors for such events within 1 year of discharge after intervention in infancy and, separately, to identify subgroups that might benefit from different forms of intervention., Methods and Results: Cardiac procedures performed in infants between 2005 and 2010 in England and Wales from the UK National Congenital Heart Disease Audit were linked to intensive care records. Among 7976 infants, 333 (4.2%) died before discharge. Of 7643 infants discharged alive, 246 (3.2%) died outside the hospital or after an unplanned readmission to intensive care (risk factors were age, weight-for-age, cardiac procedure, cardiac diagnosis, congenital anomaly, preprocedural clinical deterioration, prematurity, ethnicity, and duration of initial admission; c-statistic 0.78 [0.75-0.82]). Of the 7643, 514 (6.7%) died outside the hospital or had an unplanned intensive care readmission (same risk factors but with neurodevelopmental condition and acquired cardiac diagnosis and without preprocedural deterioration; c-statistic 0.78 [0.75-0.80]). Classification and regression tree analysis were used to identify 6 subgroups stratified by the level (3-24%) and nature of risk for death outside the hospital or unplanned intensive care readmission based on neurodevelopmental condition, cardiac diagnosis, congenital anomaly, and duration of initial admission. An additional 115 patients died after planned intensive care admission (typically following elective surgery)., Conclusions: Adverse outcomes in the year after discharge are of similar magnitude to in-hospital mortality, warrant service improvements, and are not confined to diagnostic groups currently targeted with enhanced monitoring., (© 2016 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley Blackwell.)
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- 2016
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6. Risk of premature menopause after treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Swerdlow AJ, Cooke R, Bates A, Cunningham D, Falk SJ, Gilson D, Hancock BW, Harris SJ, Horwich A, Hoskin PJ, Linch DC, Lister A, Lucraft HH, Radford J, Stevens AM, Syndikus I, and Williams MV
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- Adolescent, Adult, Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating adverse effects, Bleomycin administration & dosage, Bleomycin adverse effects, Carmustine administration & dosage, Carmustine adverse effects, Child, Child, Preschool, Cytarabine administration & dosage, Cytarabine adverse effects, Dacarbazine administration & dosage, Dacarbazine adverse effects, Doxorubicin administration & dosage, Doxorubicin adverse effects, England epidemiology, Etoposide administration & dosage, Etoposide adverse effects, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Infant, Melphalan administration & dosage, Melphalan adverse effects, Poisson Distribution, Proportional Hazards Models, Radiotherapy Dosage, Risk Assessment, Surveys and Questionnaires, Vinblastine administration & dosage, Vinblastine adverse effects, Wales epidemiology, Young Adult, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols administration & dosage, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols adverse effects, Hodgkin Disease drug therapy, Hodgkin Disease radiotherapy, Menopause, Premature, Ovary radiation effects
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Background: Modern treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) has transformed its prognosis but causes late effects, including premature menopause. Cohort studies of premature menopause risks after treatment have been relatively small, and knowledge about these risks is limited., Methods: Nonsurgical menopause risk was analyzed in 2127 women treated for HL in England and Wales at ages younger than 36 years from 1960 through 2004 and followed to 2003 through 2012. Risks were estimated using Cox regression, modified Poisson regression, and competing risks. All statistical tests were two-sided., Results: During follow-up, 605 patients underwent nonsurgical menopause before age 40 years. Risk of premature menopause increased more than 20-fold after ovarian radiotherapy, alkylating chemotherapy other than dacarbazine, or BEAM (bis-chloroethylnitrosourea [BCNU], etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) chemotherapy for stem cell transplantation, but was not statistically significantly raised after adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine (ABVD). Menopause generally occurred sooner after ovarian radiotherapy (62.5% within five years of ≥5 Gy treatment) and BEAM (50.9% within five years) than after alkylating chemotherapy (24.2% within five years of ≥6 cycles), and after treatment at older than at younger ages. Cumulative risk of menopause by age 40 years was 81.3% after greater than or equal to 5Gy ovarian radiotherapy, 75.3% after BEAM, 49.1% after greater than or equal to 6 cycles alkylating chemotherapy, 1.4% after ABVD, and 3.0% after solely supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy. Tables of individualized risk information for patients by future period, treatment type, dose and age are provided., Conclusions: Patients treated with HL need to plan intended pregnancies using personalized information on their risk of menopause by different future time points., (© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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- 2014
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7. Breast cancer risk following Hodgkin lymphoma radiotherapy in relation to menstrual and reproductive factors.
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Cooke R, Jones ME, Cunningham D, Falk SJ, Gilson D, Hancock BW, Harris SJ, Horwich A, Hoskin PJ, Illidge T, Linch DC, Lister TA, Lucraft HH, Radford JA, Stevens AM, Syndikus I, Williams MV, and Swerdlow AJ
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- Adult, Age Factors, Breast Neoplasms etiology, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, England epidemiology, Female, Humans, Menarche, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced etiology, Pregnancy, Reproductive History, Wales epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Hodgkin Disease radiotherapy, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced epidemiology
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Background: Women treated with supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy (sRT) for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) at young ages have a substantially increased breast cancer risk. Little is known about how menarcheal and reproductive factors modify this risk., Methods: We examined the effects of menarcheal age, pregnancy, and menopausal age on breast cancer risk following sRT in case-control data from questionnaires completed by 2497 women from a cohort of 5002 treated with sRT for HL at ages <36 during 1956-2003., Results: Two-hundred and sixty women had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer risk was significantly increased in patients treated within 6 months of menarche (odds ratio (OR) 5.52, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.97-15.46)), and increased significantly with proximity of sRT to menarche (Ptrend<0.001). It was greatest when sRT was close to a late menarche, but based on small numbers and needing reexamination elsewhere. Risk was not significantly affected by full-term pregnancies before or after treatment. Risk was significantly reduced by early menopause (OR 0.55, 95% CI (0.35-0.85)), and increased with number of premenopausal years after treatment (Ptrend=0.003)., Conclusion: In summary, this paper shows for the first time that sRT close to menarche substantially increases breast cancer risk. Careful consideration should be given to follow-up of these women, and to measures that might reduce their future breast cancer risk.
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8. Breast cancer risk after supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma in England and Wales: a National Cohort Study.
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Swerdlow AJ, Cooke R, Bates A, Cunningham D, Falk SJ, Gilson D, Hancock BW, Harris SJ, Horwich A, Hoskin PJ, Linch DC, Lister TA, Lucraft HH, Radford JA, Stevens AM, Syndikus I, and Williams MV
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Cohort Studies, Diaphragm radiation effects, England, Humans, Radiotherapy Dosage, Risk, Wales, Breast Neoplasms etiology, Hodgkin Disease radiotherapy, Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced etiology
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Purpose: To investigate breast cancer risk after supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy administered to young women with Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) in a much larger cohort than previously to provide data for patient follow-up and screening individualized according to treatment type, age, and time point during follow-up., Patients and Methods: Breast cancer risk was assessed in 5,002 women in England and Wales treated for HL with supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy at age < 36 years from 1956 to 2003, who underwent follow-up with 97% completeness until December 31, 2008., Results: Breast cancer or ductal carcinoma in situ developed in 373 patients, with a standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of 5.0 (95% CI, 4.5 to 5.5). SIRs were greatest for those treated at age 14 years (47.2; 95% CI, 28.0 to 79.8) and continued to remain high for at least 40 years. The maximum absolute excess risk was at attained ages 50 to 59 years. Alkylating chemotherapy or pelvic radiotherapy diminished the risk, but only for women treated at age ≥ 20 years, not for those treated when younger. Cumulative risks were tabulated in detail; for 40-year follow-up, the risk for patients receiving ≥ 40 Gy mantle radiotherapy at young ages was 48%., Conclusion: This article provides individualized risk estimates based on large numbers for patients with HL undergoing follow-up after radiotherapy at young ages. Follow-up of such women needs to continue for 40 years or longer and may require more-intensive screening regimens than those in national general population programs. Special consideration is needed of potential measures to reduce breast cancer risk for girls treated with supradiaphragmatic radiotherapy at pubertal ages.
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- 2012
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9. Paediatric cardiac surgical mortality after Bristol: paediatric cardiac hospital episode statistics are unreliable.
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Gibbs JL, Cunningham D, de Leval M, Monro J, and Keogh B
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- Child, Critical Care, England, Hospital Mortality, Humans, Wales, Cardiac Surgical Procedures mortality, Heart Diseases mortality
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- 2005
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