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| Nora PashayanSummaryAffiliation: University of Cambridge Country: UK Publications
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Cost-effectiveness of primary offer of IVF vs. primary offer of IUI followed by IVF (for IUI failures) in couples with unexplained or mild male factor subfertilityNora Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 6:80. 2006....
PSA-detected prostate cancer and the potential for dedifferentiation--estimating the proportion capable of progressionNora Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 128:1462-70. 2011..The former may potentially benefit from screening. Identifying cancers with the potential for progression is important to target screening...
Mortality attributable to excess adiposity in England and Wales in 2003 and 2015: explorations with a spreadsheet implementation of the Comparative Risk Assessment methodologyChristopher Kelly
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
Popul Health Metr 7:11. 2009..Our aim was to estimate the burden of fatal disease attributable to excess adiposity in England and Wales in 2003 and 2015 and to explore the sensitivity of the estimates to the assumptions and methods used...
Polygenic susceptibility to prostate and breast cancer: implications for personalised screeningN Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
Br J Cancer 104:1656-63. 2011..We modelled the efficiency of a personalised approach to screening for prostate and breast cancer based on age and polygenic risk-profile compared with the standard approach based on age alone...
Validation of a modelling approach for estimating the likely effectiveness of cancer screening using cancer data on prevalence screening and incidenceNora Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK
Cancer Epidemiol 35:139-44. 2011..This study aims to validate a biostatistical approach to predict the likely effectiveness of screening in reducing advanced disease in the absence of data on incident screen and interval cancers...
Stage shift in PSA-detected prostate cancers - effect modification by Gleason scoreNora Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 2SR, UK
J Med Screen 16:98-101. 2009..This paper aims to investigate whether the stage shift (where more cancers are detected at an earlier stage) in prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-detected cancers differs by Gleason score...
Mean sojourn time, overdiagnosis, and reduction in advanced stage prostate cancer due to screening with PSA: implications of sojourn time on screeningN Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge, UK
Br J Cancer 100:1198-204. 2009..If the overdiagnosed cases were excluded, the estimated reductions were 9 and 54%, respectively. Thus, the benefit of screening in reducing advanced stage disease is limited by overdiagnosis, which is greater in older men...
Survival trends for small intestinal cancer in England and Wales, 1971-1990: national population-based studyN Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
Br J Cancer 95:1296-300. 2006..Further population-based investigations linking survival data to individual data on diagnostic methods and types of treatment are needed...
Excess cases of prostate cancer and estimated overdiagnosis associated with PSA testing in East AngliaN Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
Br J Cancer 95:401-5. 2006..3% excess incidence cases observed in East Anglia from 1996 to 2000). Further quantification of the overdiagnosis will result from continued surveillance and from linkage of incidence to testing in other hospitals...
Incidence trends of prostate cancer in East Anglia, before and during the era of PSA diagnostic testingN Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB2 2SR, UK
Br J Cancer 95:398-400. 2006..Based on pre-1991 trends, 9203 new cases were expected in 1991-2000, but 9788 cases were observed, an excess of 6%...
Cervical cancer in Indigenous women: The case of AustraliaGeordan D Shannon
The University of Cambridge, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
Maturitas 70:234-45. 2011..Similar patterns exist in Indigenous populations worldwide, such as New Zealander Maoris and Canadian Aboriginals, suggesting that high rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality may be a symptom of social and economic inequity...
Informal knowledge transfer in the period before formal health education programmes: case studies of mass media coverage of HIV and SIDS in England and WalesNick Hilliard
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2SP, UK
BMC Public Health 7:293. 2007..The role of newspapers in transferring knowledge relevant to reducing the risk of AIDS and SIDS is assessed...
Development and validation of risk score for predicting positive repeat prostate biopsy in patients with a previous negative biopsy in a UK populationMark A Rochester
Department of Urology, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
BMC Urol 9:7. 2009..The objective of this study was to develop a predictive nomogram to identify men more likely to have a cancer diagnosed on repeat prostate biopsy...
Selection into specialty training in public health: performance of the Medical Training Application Service shortlistingNora Pashayan
Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 29:331-7. 2007..To assess the performance of shortlisting against appointability to public health specialty training under the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) selection methodology using multiple modality in person assessment...
Measuring health: a practical challenge with a philosophical solution?Amir Shroufi
Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK
Maturitas 68:210-6. 2011..Promoting and improving health demands adequate measures of health and the application of the Rawlsian veil of ignorance approach could be an effective alternative...
