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Donald Maxwell Parkin
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 267
Citations - 74295
Donald Maxwell Parkin is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 87, co-authored 259 publications receiving 71469 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald Maxwell Parkin include University of California, Los Angeles & Queen Mary University of London.
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Cancer incidence and mortality in Portugal
Paulo S. Pinheiro,Jerzy E. Tyczynski,Freddie Bray,João Amado,Eduarda Matos,Donald Maxwell Parkin +5 more
TL;DR: Estimates of national cancer incidence in Portugal in 1996-1998, predictions for the year 2000, and interpret the recent cancer mortality trends in light of observations from epidemiological research and risk factor patterns demonstrate the need for a comprehensive national programme against cancer.
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Risk factors for Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV-positive subjects in Uganda.
J Ziegler,Robert U. Newton,E. Katongole-mbidde,S Mbulataiye,K De Cock,Henry Wabinga,J. Mugerwa,Elly Katabira,Harold W. Jaffe,Donald Maxwell Parkin,Gillian K Reeves,R Weiss,Valerie Beral +12 more
TL;DR: Among HIV-infected subjects, KS cases are characterized by better education and greater affluence, compared with controls, and few indices of sexual behaviour were related to risk of KS, including reported number of sexual partners.
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Cancer incidence in a rural population of South Africa, 1998-2002.
Nontuthuzelo I. M. Somdyala,Debbie Bradshaw,Wentzel C. A. Gelderblom,Wentzel C. A. Gelderblom,Donald Maxwell Parkin +4 more
TL;DR: Lung cancer in both males and females was relatively low compared to the high incidence of oesophagus cancer, and the incidence of Kaposi sarcoma was low, and higher for males than females.
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Survival from head and neck cancer in Mumbai (Bombay), India
B B Yeole,Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,Lizzy Sunny,Rajaraman Swaminathan,Donald Maxwell Parkin +4 more
TL;DR: Head and neck cancers, among the 10 most frequent cancers in the world, are common in regions with a high prevalence of tobacco and alcohol habits and the authors report and discuss the survival from these cancers in Mumbai, India.
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Initial results from a randomized trial of cervical visual screening in rural south India
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,Rajamanickam Rajkumar,Rajapandian Theresa,Pulikattil Okkaru Esmy,Cédric Mahé,Karur R. Bagyalakshmi,Somanathan Thara,Lucien Frappart,Eric Lucas,Richard Muwonge,Sivanandam Shanthakumari,D. Jeevan,T.M. Subbarao,Donald Maxwell Parkin,Jacob Cherian +14 more
TL;DR: The preliminary findings from this study indicate that not only is a VIA‐based screening programme feasible, safe and acceptable to a population in rural settings, it also results in early detection of cervical neoplasia.