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Recent Publications

The table below lists recent publications by members of the Childhood Cancer Research Group. These publications include papers and letters published in academic journals and books, or chapters of books, written or contributed to by members of the CCRG. Where a link is provided for a journal reference this is usually to an abstract at PubMed, links for books or chapters of books are usually links to the publisher.

2011

  • Littele MP, Kleinerman RA, Li G, Stiller CA, Kroll ME & Murphy MF. (2011). Analysis of retinoblastoma age incidence data using a fully stochastic cancer model. Int J Cancer, 130. 631-40
  • Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation. (2011). Risk of Solid Cancers following Radiation Exposure: Estimates for the UK Population. Report of the independent Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation. HPA
  • O'Neill KA, Bunch KJ, Vincent TJ, Spector LG, Moorman AV & Murphy MFG. (2011) Immunophenotype and cytogenetic characteristics in the relationship between birth weight and childhood leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer, 58 7-11.
  • Lycett D, Munafò MR, Johnstone E, Murphy MFG & Aveyard P. (2011) Weight change over eight years in relation to alcohol consumption in a cohort of continuing smokers and quitters. Nicotine Tob Res 13 1149-1154.
  • Shah A, Diggens N, Stiller C, Murphy D, Passmore J & Murphy MF. (2011). Place of death and hospital care for children who died of cancer in England, 1999-2006. Eur J Cancer., 47 2175-2181.
  • Munafò MR, Johnstone EC, Walther D, Uhl GR, Murphy MFG & Aveyard P. (2011). CHRNA3 rs1051730 genotype and short-term smoking cessation. Nicotine Tob Res 13 982-988.
  • Kroll ME, Stiller CA, Murphy MF & Carpenter LM. (2011). Childhood leukaemia and socioeconomic status in England and Wales 1976-2005: evidence of higher incidence in relatively affluent communities persists over time. Br J Cancer, 105 1783-7.
  • Jones EA, Stewart A, Stiller C, Douglas F & Bown N. (2011). Wilms tumor incidence in children with 2q terminal deletions: A cohort study. Am J Med Genet, 155 2221-2223.
  • Kendall G & Fell T. (2011). Doses to the red bone marrow of young people and adults from radiation of natural origin. J Radiol Prot, 31 329-335.
  • Kendall G, Little MP & Wakeford R. (2011). Numbers and proportions of leukemias in young people and adults induced by radiation of natural origin. Leuk Res, 35 1039-1043.
  • Reulen RC, Frobisher C, Winter DL, Kelly J, Lancashire ER, Stiller CA, Pritchard-Jones K, Jenkinson HC, Hawkins MM & British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Steering Group. (2011). Long-term risks of subsequent primary neoplasms among survivors of childhood cancer. JAMA, 305 2311-2319.
  • Chumas P, Kenny T & Stiller C. (2011). Subspecialisation in neurosurgery-does size matter? Acta neurochir, 153 1231-1236.
  • Slade I, Murray A, Hanks S, Kumar A, Walker L, Hargrave D, Douglas J, Stiller C, Izatt L & Rahman N.(2011). Heterogeneity of familial medulloblastoma and contribution of germline PTCH1 and SUFU mutations to sporadic medulloblastoma. Fam Cancer, 10 337-342.
  • Slade I, Bacchelli C, Davies H, Murray A, Abbaszadeh F, Hanks S, Barfoot R, Burke A, Chisholm J, Hewitt M, Jenkinson H, King D, Morland B, Pizer B, Prescott K, Saggar A, Side L, Traunecker H, Vaidya S, Ward P, Futreal PA, Vujanic G, Nicholson AG, Sebire N, Turnbull C, Priest JR, Pritchard-Jones K, Houlston R, Stiller C, Stratton MR, Douglas J, & Rahman N.(2011). DICER1 syndrome: clarifying the diagnosis, clinical features and management implications of a pleiotropic tumour predisposition syndrome. J Med Genet., 48 273-278.
  • Kroll ME, Murphy MF, Carpenter LM, & Stiller CA (2011). Childhood cancer registration in Britain: capture-recapture estimates of completeness of ascertainment. Br J Cancer, 104 1227-1233.
  • England RJ, Haider N, Vujanic GM, Kelsey A, Stiller CA, Pritchard-Jones K & Powis M.(2011). Mesoblastic nephroma: A report of the United Kingdom children's cancer and leukaemia group (CCLG). Pediatr Blood Cancer., 56 744-748.
  • David SP, Johnstone EC, Churchman M, Aveyard P, Murphy MFG & Munafò MR. (2011). Pharmacogenetics of Smoking Cessation in General Practice: Results From the Patch II and Patch in Practice Trials. Nicotine and tobacco research, 13 157-167.

2010

  • Taylor AJ, Little MP, Winter DL, Sugden E, Ellison DW, Stiller CA, Stovall M, Frobisher C, Lancashire ER, Reulen RC & Hawkins MM. (2010) Population-based risks of CNS tumors in survivors of childhood cancer: the british childhood cancer survivor study. J Clin Oncol., 28 5287-93.
  • Stiller CA & Brennan (2010) Rare Tunours in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology: Scientific Principles and Clinical Practice. (ed. by E.J. Estlin, R.J. Gilbertson and R.F. Wynn), pp. 319-330. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Kheifets L, Ahlbom A, Crespi CM, Feychting M, Johansen C, Monroe J, Murphy MF, Oksuzyan S, Preston-Martin S, Roman E, Saito T, Savitz D, Schüz J, Simpson J, Swanson J, Tynes T, Verkasalo P & Mezei G. (2010). Pooled analysis of extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and childhood brain tumors. Am J Epidemiol., 172 752-61.
  • Kheifets L, Ahlbom A, Crespi CM, Draper G, Hagihara J, Lowenthal RM, Mezei G, Oksuzyan S, Schüz J, Swanson J, Tittarelli A, Vinceti M & Wunsch Filho V. (2010). Pooled analysis of recent studies on magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia. Br J Cancer., 103 1128-1135.
  • Kroll ME, Swanson J, Vincent TJ, Draper GJ. (2010). Childhood cancer and magnetic fields from high-voltage power lines in England and Wales: a case-control study. Br J Cancer., 103 1122-1127.
  • Little MP, Wakeford R, Lubin JH & Kendall GM. (2010). The statistical power of epidemiological studies analyzing the relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and cancer, with special reference to childhood leukemia and natural background radiation. Radiat Res., 174 387-402.
  • Reulen RC, Winter DL, Frobisher C, Lancashire ER, Stiller CA, Jenney ME, Skinner R, Stevens MC, Hawkins MM; British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study Steering Group. (2010). Long-term cause-specific mortality among survivors of childhood cancer. JAMA., 304 172-179.
  • Wakeford R, Little MP & Kendall GM. (2010). Risk of childhood leukemia after low-level exposure to ionizing radiation. Expert Reviews in Hematology, 3 251-254.
  • Shah A, Stiller C, Lancaster D, Vincent T & Coleman MP. (2010). Leukaemia survival trends in children with Down's syndrome in Great Britain, 1971-2000: a population-based study. J Epidemiol Community Health, 64 604-609.
  • Breslow NE, Lange JM, Friedman DL, Green DM, Hawkins MM, Murphy MF, Neglia JP, Olsen JH, Peterson SM, Stiller CA & Robison LL. (2010). Secondary malignant neoplasms after Wilms tumor: An international collaborative study. Int J Cancer, 127 657-666.
  • Brennan B, Stevens M, Kelsey A & Stiller CA. (2010). Synovial sarcoma in childhood and adolescence: A retrospective series of 77 patients registered by the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group between 1991 and 2006. Pediatr Blood Cancer, 55 85-90.
  • Slade I, Stephens P, Douglas J, Barker K, Stebbings L, Abbaszadeh F, Pritchard-Jones K; FACT collaboration, Cole R, Pizer B, Stiller C, Vujanic G, Scott RH, Stratton MR & Rahman N (2010). Constitutional translocation breakpoint mapping by genome-wide paired-end sequencing identifies HACE1 as a putative Wilms tumour susceptibility gene. J Med Genet, 47 342-347.
  • Wakeford R, Darby SC & Murphy MF. (2010) Temporal trends in childhood leukaemia incidence following exposure to radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. Radiat Environ Biophys, 49 213-227.
  • MacCarthy A, Bunch KJ, Fear NT, King JC, Vincent TJ & Murphy MF. (2010) Paternal occupation and neuroblastoma: a case-control study based on cancer registry data for Great Britain 1962-1999. Br J Cancer, 102 615-619.