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L M Carpenter

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Kroll M, Carpenter L, Murphy M, Stiller C
Br J Cancer . 2012 Aug; 107(7):1159-62. PMID: 22898786
Background: Increases in recorded childhood cancer incidence are widely reported, but do not necessarily represent real increases in risk. Time trends might conceal underlying steps caused by changes in diagnosis...
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Kroll M, Stiller C, Richards S, Mitchell C, Carpenter L
Br J Cancer . 2012 Apr; 106(9):1556-9. PMID: 22472883
Background: Recorded incidence of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia tends to be lower in poorer communities. A 'preemptive infection hypothesis' proposes that some children with leukaemia die from infection without diagnosis...
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Kroll M, Stiller C, Murphy M, Carpenter L
Br J Cancer . 2011 Oct; 105(11):1783-7. PMID: 22027710
Background: Record-based studies have generally reported association of higher childhood leukaemia incidence with higher socioeconomic status (SES), but recent findings are less consistent. Methods: We examined records from the National...
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Kroll M, Murphy M, Carpenter L, Stiller C
Br J Cancer . 2011 Mar; 104(7):1227-33. PMID: 21407221
Background: Completeness of ascertainment is a very important aspect of cancer registration. There is no recent published estimate for childhood cancer in Britain. Methods: We estimated completeness of ascertainment by...
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Carpenter L, Linsell L, Brooks C, Keegan T, Langdon T, Doyle P, et al.
BMJ . 2009 Mar; 338:b655. PMID: 19318700
Objective: To determine cancer morbidity in members of the armed forces who took part in tests of chemical warfare agents from 1941 to 1989. Design: Historical cohort study, with cohort...
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Venables K, Brooks C, Linsell L, Keegan T, Langdon T, Fletcher T, et al.
BMJ . 2009 Mar; 338:b613. PMID: 19318699
Objective: To investigate any long term effects on mortality in participants in experimental research related to chemical warfare agents from 1941 to 1989. Design: Historical cohort study. Data sources Archive...
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Keegan T, Walker S, Brooks C, Langdon T, Linsell L, Maconochie N, et al.
Ann Occup Hyg . 2009 Jan; 53(1):83-97. PMID: 19131404
Objectives: This study describes exposures to military veterans who participated between 1941 and 1989 in British research at Porton Down on the effects of exposure to chemical warfare agents and...
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Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha H, Mayon-White R, Okong P, Carpenter L
J Public Health (Oxf) . 2007 Jun; 29(3):269-74. PMID: 17538192
Background: To report the experience of health workers who had played key roles in the early stages of implementing the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services (PMTCT) in Uganda. Methods:...
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Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha H, Mayon-White R, Okong P, Carpenter L, Jenkinson C
AIDS Care . 2006 Jul; 18(6):614-20. PMID: 16831790
To study the effect of HIV infection on quality of life (QOL) during pregnancy and puerperium, QOL was measured in a cohort study at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya, Kampala, Uganda....
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Law G, Cox D, Machonochie N, Simpson J, Roman E, Carpenter L
Biostatistics . 2003 Aug; 2(2):163-71. PMID: 12933547
The traditional exploration of large contingency tables leads to multiple comparisons with the inherent generation of chance associations. To allow for this, a simple empirical Bayesian approach is used here...