Incidence and survival trends of lip, intra-oral cavity and tongue base cancers in south-east England.

Background: Oral cavity cancers are on the increase in the UK. Understanding site-specific epidemiological trends is important for cancer control measures. This study demonstrates the changing epidemiological trends in lip, intra-oral cavity and tongue base cancers in south-east England from 1987 to 2006.

Brief advice to tuberculosis patients in Nepal to stop smoking: a pilot study by the Britain Nepal Medical Trust.

Setting: Tuberculosis (TB) treatment centres in Eastern Nepal.

Objective: To determine smoking cessation rates among TB patients advised to quit.

Design: One intervention and one control centre were studied.

Tracking viral evolution during a disease outbreak: the rapid and complete selective sweep of a circovirus in the endangered Echo parakeet.

Circoviruses are among the smallest and simplest of all viruses, but they are relatively poorly characterized. Here, we intensively sampled two sympatric parrot populations from Mauritius over a period of 11 years and screened for the circovirus Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV). During the sampling period, a severe outbreak of psittacine beak and feather disease, which is caused by BFDV, occurred in Echo parakeets.

A 20-year retrospective study of tonsil cancer incidence and survival trends in South East England: 1987-2006.

Background: There has been an increasing incidence of tonsil cancer worldwide. Documenting these changes is crucial to cancer prevention and control measures, resource allocation and understanding disease aetiology.

Objective: To analyse the changing epidemiology of tonsil cancer in South East England over a 20-year period between 1987 and 2006.

Increasing incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer in South East England: 1987-2006.

There has been a worldwide increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer (TC). Documenting these recent trends is of immense value to cancer control measures, monitoring policies, improving clinical outcomes, resource allocation and stimulating research. Hence this study aimed to analyse the changes in incidence, staging and morphologic types of TC in South East England (1987-2006) by means of a retrospective, descriptive epidemiological study using anonymized data obtained from the Thames Cancer Registry (TCR) of all patients registered with TC in the period 1987-2006.