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Robert Charles Burton
Researcher at Monash University
Publications - 41
Citations - 2505
Robert Charles Burton is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 40 publications receiving 2370 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Charles Burton include Canadian Partnership Against Cancer & World Health Organization.
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Non-melanoma skin cancer in Australia: the 2002 national survey and trends since 1985.
Margaret Staples,Mark Elwood,Robert Charles Burton,Jodie L Williams,Robin Marks,Graham G. Giles +5 more
TL;DR: The incidence of treated non‐melanoma skin cancer in Australia in 2002 and trends since 1985 are measured and trends are investigated by histological type, sex, age group, latitude and skin type.
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Preventing chronic diseases in China
TL;DR: The surveillance and intervention mechanisms needed to ameliorate the increasing burden of chronic diseases are developing rapidly, taking account of the lessons learned over the past two decades.
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Has mortality from melanoma stopped rising in Australia? Analysis of trends between 1931 and 1994.
TL;DR: Melanoma mortality in Australia peaked in about 1985 and has now plateaued, and on the basis of trends in cohorts it can be expected to fall in coming years.
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A systematic review of medical skills laboratory training: where to from here?
TL;DR: This review aimed to determine if performance in medical skills laboratories is transferable to actual clinical performance and maintained over time and to evaluate the effectiveness of medical skills labs or simulators.
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Impact of dermoscopy and short‐term sequential digital dermoscopy imaging for the management of pigmented lesions in primary care: a sequential intervention trial
Scott W. Menzies,Jon Emery,Margaret Staples,S Davies,Brian R McAvoy,Jane Fletcher,K R Shahid,Gabrielle Reid,Michelle Avramidis,Alison Ward,Robert Charles Burton,J M Elwood +11 more
TL;DR: The benign to malignant ratio of excised pigmented skin lesions is suboptimal in primary care and should be reduced to zero in order to improve care quality.