Michael Coory

TL;DR: The raising of awareness and implementation of effective interventions for modifiable risk factors, such as overweight, obesity, maternal age, and smoking, are priorities for stillbirth prevention in high-income countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first study in a programme to investigate international survival disparities, with the aim of informing health policy to raise standards and reduce inequalities in survival, was presented, where data from population-based cancer registries in 12 jurisdictions in six countries were provided for 2·4 million adults diagnosed with primary colorectal, lung, breast, ovarian, or ovarian cancer during 1995-2007, with follow-up to Dec 31, 2007.

TL;DR: There is currently no evidence that weight loss after diagnosis improves survival in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, and further research should concentrate on assessing whether factors such as diabetes or type of chemotherapy modify the obesity effect and on understanding the causal mechanism.

TL;DR: In high-income countries, a woman living under adverse socioeconomic circumstances has twice the risk of having a stillborn child when compared to her more advantaged counterparts and programs at community and country level need to improve health in disadvantaged families.

TL;DR: Age-standardised incidence is continuing to increase and this, in combination with a shift to proportionately more in situ lesions, suggests that the stabilisation of mortality rates is due, in large part, to earlier detection.