UKACR Conference 2005 in Manchester

TCR contributions to the annual UKACR conference, September 2005.

Oral presentations :

• Radiotherapy waiting times in breast cancer patients


• The impact of mammographic screening and hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer incidence in England and Wales
• Radiotherapy for breast cancer and subsequent cardiovascular mortality
• Does cancer survival depend on season of diagnosis and sunlight exposure?
• Population modelling validates the flow method for completeness of case ascertainment by cancer registries
• Cancer incidence in ethnic minority groups in South East England

Poster presentations (PDF):

• A case-mix model for monitoring of postoperative mortality after surgery for lung cancer


• The epidemiology and treatment of mesothelioma in South East England
  
• Ethnicity coding in cancer


• Factors influencing the use of chemotherapy in South East England


• Place of death from cancer and the growth of palliative care and nursing home services in South East England 1985-2002
• Socio-economic variation in cancer incidence and the impact of using different deprivation indices


• The 13-year follow-up of patients with breast cancer presenting to a district general hospital breast unit in South East England


• Incidence of cancer in a cohort of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome


• The effects of incompleteness of registration and the presence of DCOs on survival estimates based on cancer registry data


• Does socio-economic status influence incidence, tumour site or T stage of cutaneous malignant melanoma?


• Measuring postoperative mortality for colorectal cancer patients in North Thames


• Radiotherapy waiting times for colorectal cancer: Variation over time and between cancer networks in South East England
• Geographical analysis of cancer incidence in South East England


• Cancer and laterality: a survey of the five major paired organs


• Childhood cancer and socio-economic status, South East England, 1985-2003
  
• Trends in treatment for breast cancer patients in the North Thames area 1996-2003


• The contribution of UK cancer registries to the LUCADA audit project
  
• Incidence and survival of Waldenström's Macroglobulinaemia