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Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to HPV by site, country and HPV type by de Martel, Catherine, Plummer, Martyn, Vignat, Jerome, Franceschi, Silvia

“…HPV is the cause of almost all cervical cancer and is responsible for a substantial fraction of other anogenital cancers and oropharyngeal cancers…”
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Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2012: a synthetic analysis by Plummer, Martyn, Dr, de Martel, Catherine, MD, Vignat, Jerome, MSc, Ferlay, Jacques, ME, Bray, Freddie, PhD, Franceschi, Silvia, MD

“…Summary Background Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites are strong risk factors for specific cancers. As new cancer statistics and…”
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Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis by de Martel, Catherine, MD, Ferlay, Jacques, ME, Franceschi, Silvia, MD, Vignat, Jérôme, MSc, Bray, Freddie, PhD, Forman, David, PhD, Plummer, Martyn, Dr

“…Summary Background Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites have been identified as strong risk factors for specific cancers. An update of…”
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Fraction and incidence of liver cancer attributable to hepatitis B and C viruses worldwide by Maucort‐Boulch, Delphine, de Martel, Catherine, Franceschi, Silvia, Plummer, Martyn

“…High‐quality data on liver cancers by probable cause are scarce in many regions of the world. The United Nations recently set a goal of eliminating viral…”
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Worldwide Thyroid-Cancer Epidemic? The Increasing Impact of Overdiagnosis by Vaccarella, Salvatore, Franceschi, Silvia, Bray, Freddie, Wild, Christopher P, Plummer, Martyn, Dal Maso, Luigino

“…Dramatic increases have been seen over recent decades in the reported incidence of thyroid cancer, but owing to new modes of screening, hundreds of thousands…”
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The Impact of Diagnostic Changes on the Rise in Thyroid Cancer Incidence: A Population-Based Study in Selected High-Resource Countries by Vaccarella, Salvatore, Dal Maso, Luigino, Laversanne, Mathieu, Bray, Freddie, Plummer, Martyn, Franceschi, Silvia

“…Thyroid cancer (TC) incidence is rising in many countries, but the corresponding mortality is constant or declining. Incidence increases appear largely…”
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Worldwide trends in cervical cancer incidence: Impact of screening against changes in disease risk factors by Vaccarella, Salvatore, Lortet-Tieulent, Joannie, Plummer, Martyn, Franceschi, Silvia, Bray, Freddie

“…Abstract Background Cervical cancer trends in a given country mainly depend on the existence of effective screening programmes and time changes in disease risk…”
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World‐wide relative contribution of hepatitis B and C viruses in hepatocellular carcinoma by de Martel, Catherine, Maucort‐Boulch, Delphine, Plummer, Martyn, Franceschi, Silvia

“…Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are major causes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In order to assess the relative contribution of HBV and…”
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On Bayesian modeling of censored data in JAGS by Qi, Xinyue, Zhou, Shouhao, Plummer, Martyn

“…Just Another Gibbs Sampling (JAGS) is a convenient tool to draw posterior samples using Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian modeling. However, the built-in…”
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Global Burden of Human Papillomavirus and Related Diseases by Forman, David, de Martel, Catherine, Lacey, Charles J, Soerjomataram, Isabelle, Lortet-Tieulent, Joannie, Bruni, Laia, Vignat, Jerome, Ferlay, Jacques, Bray, Freddie, Plummer, Martyn, Franceschi, Silvia

“…Highlights ► 1 in 10 women worldwide carries an HPV infection at any point in time. ► 610,000 incident cancers per annum are attributable to HPV infection…”
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Time since first sexual intercourse and the risk of cervical cancer by Plummer, Martyn, Peto, Julian, Franceschi, Silvia

“…Young age at first sexual intercourse (AFI) is an important risk factor for cervical cancer, but no simple statistical model of its influence has been…”
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Improved estimates of floating absolute risk by Plummer, Martyn

“…Floating absolute risks are an alternative way of presenting relative risk estimates for polychotomous risk factors. Instead of choosing one level of the risk…”
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Correction: On Bayesian modeling of censored data in JAGS by Qi, Xinyue, Zhou, Shouhao, Plummer, Martyn

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Preventable fractions of cervical cancer via effective screening in six Baltic, central, and eastern European countries 2017–40: a population-based study by Vaccarella, Salvatore, Dr, Franceschi, Silvia, MD, Zaridze, David, PhD, Poljak, Mario, Prof, Veerus, Piret, PhD, Plummer, Martyn, PhD, Bray, Freddie, PhD

“…Summary Background Cervical cancer incidence remains high in several Baltic, central, and eastern European (BCEE) countries, mainly as a result of a historical…”
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Using Lexis Objects for Multi-State Models in R by Carstensen, Bendix, Plummer, Martyn

“…The Lexis class in the R package Epi provides tools for creation, manipulation and display of data from multi-state models. Transitions between states are…”
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Quantification of Empirical Determinacy: The Impact of Likelihood Weighting on Posterior Location and Spread in Bayesian Meta-Analysis Estimated with JAGS and INLA by Sona, Hunanyan, Håvard, Rue, Martyn, Plummer, Małgorzata, Roos

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A Bayesian information criterion for singular models by Drton, Mathias, Plummer, Martyn, Claeskens, Gerda, Rousseau, Judith, Robert, Christian P., Imai, Toru, Kuroki, Manabu, Friel, N., McKeone, J. P., Oates, C. J., Pettitt, A. N., McLachlan, G. J., Nguyen, H. D., Charnigo, Richard, Longford, N. T., Bhansali, R. J., Cameron, Ewan, Pettitt, Anthony N., Chopin, Nicolas, Draper, David, Kuriki, Satoshi, Mateu, Jorge, Ferreira, Guillermo, Mattei, Pierre-Alexandre, Nugent, Rebecca, Lorenzi, Elizabeth, Frisoli, Kayla, Raftery, Adrian E., South, L. F., Drovandi, C. C., Stehlík, Milan, Wyse, Jason, White, Arthur, Zhu, Rui, Yang, Xiaochen, Ling, Yurong, Xue, Jing-Hao

“…We consider approximate Bayesian model choice for model selection problems that involve models whose Fisher information matrices may fail to be invertible…”
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Lexis : An R Class for Epidemiological Studies with Long-Term Follow-Up by Plummer, Martyn, Carstensen, Bendix

“…The Lexis class in the R package Epi provides an object-based framework for managing follow-up time on multiple time scales, which is an important feature of…”
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Cancer prevention in Asia: resource-stratified guidelines from the Asian Oncology Summit 2013 by Lertkhachonsuk, Arb-aroon, MD, Yip, Cheng Har, FRCS, Khuhaprema, Thiravud, MD, Chen, Ding-Shinn, Prof, Plummer, Martyn, PhD, Jee, Sun Ha, Prof, Toi, Masakazu, Prof, Wilailak, Sarikapan, Prof

“…Summary With economic growth in Asia, cancer has become increasingly prominent as a major health problem. However, discrepancies in infrastructure, economics,…”
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Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone, Thyroglobulin, and Thyroid Hormones and Risk of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: The EPIC Study by RINALDI, Sabina, PLUMMER, Martyn, DOSSUS, Laure, KAAKS, Rudolf, LUKANOVA, Annekatrin, BOEING, Heiner, TRICHOPOULOU, Antonia, LAGIOU, Pagona, TRICHOPOULOS, Dimitrios, PALLI, Domenico, AGNOLI, Claudia, TUMINO, Rosario, BIESSY, Carine, VINEIS, Paolo, PANICO, Salvatore, BUENO-DE-MESQUITA, H. Bas, PEETERS, Petra H, WEIDERPASS, Elisabete, LUND, Eiliv, QUIROS, J. Ramón, AGUDO, Antonio, MOLINA, Esther, LARRANAGA, Nerea, TSILIDIS, Konstantinos K, NAVARRO, Carmen, ARDANAZ, Eva, MANJER, Jonas, ALMQUIST, Martin, SANDSTRÖM, Maria, HENNINGS, Joakim, KHAW, Kay-Tee, SCHMIDT, Julie, TRAVIS, Ruth C, BYRNES, Graham, ØSTERGAARD, Jane Nautrup, SCALBERT, Augustin, ROMIEU, Isabelle, GUNTER, Marc, RIBOLI, Elio, FRANCESCHI, Silvia, OVERVAD, Kim, TJØNNELAND, Anne, HALKJAER, Jytte, BOUTRON-RUAULT, Marie-Christine, CLAVEL-CHAPELON, Françoise

“…Increased levels of thyroglobulin (Tg) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) are associated with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (TC) risk, but strong…”
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