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| Faith S DavisSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago Country: USA Publications
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The rationale for standardized registration and reporting of brain and central nervous system tumors in population-based cancer registriesF G Davis
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Neuroepidemiology 16:308-16. 1997..A consensus among cancer registries and neuroscientists is needed to adopt standard definitions so that accurate and clinically relevant brain and CNS tumor data are available...
Epidemiology of brain tumorsF G Davis
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 13:635-40. 2000..Other promising research directions include evaluating the role of diet and allergic conditions in reducing brain tumor risk...
Second primary tumors following a diagnosis of meningioma in Sweden, 1958-1997Faith Davis
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Neuroepidemiology 29:101-6. 2007..Radiation exposures increase the risk of these rare tumors, so quantifying the cumulative and shared effects of environmental and treatment exposures is of further interest...
Epidemiology of brain tumorsFaith S Davis
University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 1603 West Taylor MC 923, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 7:S3-6. 2007..Promising avenues of research include the role of immune function, genetic components in families, metabolic and DNA-repair pathways and neurocarcinogen exposures...
Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology ConsortiumFaith G Davis
Division of Epidemiology Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:484-9. 2008..It is essential that epidemiologists and neuropathologists collaborate to develop appropriate study designs and protocols for specific hypothesis and populations...
Resveratrol is pro-apoptotic and thyroid hormone is anti-apoptotic in glioma cells: both actions are integrin and ERK mediatedHung Yun Lin
Signal Transduction Laboratory, Ordway Research Institute, 150 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA
Carcinogenesis 29:62-9. 2008..Thus, the receptor sites on alphaVbeta3 for RV and thyroid hormone are discrete and activate ERK1/2-dependent downstream effects on apoptosis that are distinctive...
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- The Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium Fall '05 MeetingFaith Davis; Fiscal Year: 2005..This meeting will bring together neuro-pathologists and epidemiologists to address these issues as they pertain to BTEC projects. ..
