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Klim McPherson

Researcher at University of London

Publications -  166
Citations -  27421

Klim McPherson is an academic researcher from University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 164 publications receiving 26466 citations. Previous affiliations of Klim McPherson include University of Bristol.

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Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. analysis and examples.

TL;DR: Efficient methods of analysis of randomized clinical trials in which the authors wish to compare the duration of survival among different groups of patients are described.
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Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. I. Introduction and design.

TL;DR: This report is the first simple account yet published for non-statistical physicians of how to analyse efficiently data from clinical trials of survival duration, and it may be preferable to use these statistical methods to study time to local recurrence of tumour, or toStudy time to detectable metastatic spread, in addition to studying total survival.
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ABC of breast diseases. Breast cancer--epidemiology, risk factors and genetics.

TL;DR: Studies of migrants from Japan to Hawaii show that the rates of breast cancer in migrants assume the rate in the host country within one or two generations, indicating that environmental factors are of greater importance than genetic factors.
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Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

Nobuyuki Hamajima, +219 more
TL;DR: In conclusion, smoking has little or no independent effect on the risk of developing breast cancer; the effect of alcohol on breast cancer needs to be interpreted in the context of its beneficial effects, in moderation, on cardiovascular disease and its harmful effects on cirrhosis.
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Cancer patients' information needs and information seeking behaviour: in depth interview study

TL;DR: Cancer patients' attitudes to cancer and their strategies for coping with their illness can constrain their wish for information and their efforts to obtain it, and the government's cancer information strategy should attend to variations in patients' desires for Information and the reasons for them.