Begg, Colin B.

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Adaptation of a Mutual Exclusivity Framework to Identify Driver Mutations within Biological Pathways. 2023 GET IT
Association of functional, inherited vitamin D-binding protein variants with melanoma-specific death. JNCI cancer spectrum. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Author Correction: GWAS and meta-analysis identifies 49 genetic variants underlying critical COVID-19. 2023 GET IT
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GWAS and meta-analysis identifies 49 genetic variants underlying critical COVID-19. Nature. 2023 Review GET IT
Times cited: 75
Sex-Specific Associations of MDM2 and MDM4 Variants with Risk of Multiple Primary Melanomas and Melanoma Survival in Non-Hispanic Whites. Cancers. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
InterMEL: An international biorepository and clinical database to uncover predictors of survival in early-stage melanoma. PloS one. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
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Predicting Cancer Risk from Germline Whole-exome Sequencing Data Using a Novel Context-based Variant Aggregation Approach. Cancer research communications. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Subsampling based variable selection for generalized linear models. Computational statistics & data analysis. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Pathway Alterations in Stage II/III Primary Melanoma. JCO precision oncology. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
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Methylation of nonessential genes in cutaneous melanoma - Rule Out hypothesis. Melanoma research. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Adult Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries With Cancer. JAMA oncology. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Landscape of mutations in early stage primary cutaneous melanoma: An InterMEL study. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 9
Evolving challenges in clinical trials design. Clinical trials (London, England). 2022 Editorial Article GET IT
Adapting an Undergraduate Summer Internship to a Virtual Format: Implementing a Mentored Cancer Research Experience to Meet Rising Demand for Flexible Learning Environments. Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
Validation of a Population-Based Data Source to Examine National Cancer Clinical Trial Participation. JAMA network open. 2022 Academic Article GET IT
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Association of Melanoma-Risk Variants with Primary Melanoma Tumor Prognostic Characteristics and Melanoma-Specific Survival in the GEM Study. Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.). 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Exome-Wide Pan-Cancer Analysis of Germline Variants in 8,719 Individuals Finds Little Evidence of Rare Variant Associations. Human heredity. 2021 Article GET IT
Disease-Associated Risk Variants in ANRIL Are Associated with Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Presence in Primary Melanomas in the Population-Based GEM Study. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Validity of a method for identifying disease subtypes that are etiologically heterogeneous. Statistical methods in medical research. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Comparison of community pathologists with expert dermatopathologists evaluating Breslow thickness and histopathologic subtype in a large international population-based study of melanoma. JAAD international. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Development and Validation of a Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Model for Childhood Cancer Survivors Treated With Chest Radiation: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and the Dutch Hodgkin Late Effects and LATER Cohorts. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Mining mutation contexts across the cancer genome to map tumor site of origin. Nature communications. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Clinical trials in Russia. Clinical trials (London, England). 2021 Editorial Article GET IT
Differences in Melanoma Between Canada and New South Wales, Australia: A Population-Based Genes, Environment, and Melanoma (GEM) Study. JID innovations. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Using the "Hidden" genome to improve classification of cancer types. Biometrics. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Association of Known Melanoma Risk Factors with Primary Melanoma of the Scalp and Neck. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Human genes differ by their UV sensitivity estimated through analysis of UV-induced silent mutations in melanoma. Human mutation. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Editorial: Clinical trial design in the era of COVID-19. Clinical trials (London, England). 2020 Editorial Article GET IT
Optimized variable selection via repeated data splitting. Statistics in medicine. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Testing tumors from different anatomic sites for clonal relatedness using somatic mutation data. Biometrics. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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In Defense of P Values. JNCI cancer spectrum. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Association of IRF4 single-nucleotide polymorphism rs12203592 with melanoma-specific survival. The British journal of dermatology. 2020 Article GET IT
The costs of cancer drugs. Clinical trials (London, England). 2020 Editorial Article GET IT
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Using somatic variant richness to mine signals from rare variants in the cancer genome. Nature communications. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
A risk prediction model for the development of subsequent primary melanoma in a population-based cohort. The British journal of dermatology. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
An EM algorithm to improve the estimation of the probability of clonal relatedness of pairs of tumors in cancer patients. BMC bioinformatics. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
Testing clonal relatedness of two tumors from the same patient based on their mutational profiles: update of the Clonality R package. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
Editorial. Clinical trials (London, England). 2019 Editorial Article GET IT
Inherited Melanoma Risk Variants Associated with Histopathologically Amelanotic Melanoma. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2019 Letter GET IT
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Evidence for Etiologic Subtypes of Breast Cancer in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
There is still a place for significance testing in clinical trials. Clinical trials (London, England). 2019 Editorial Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Relationship of Chromosome Arm 10q Variants to Occurrence of Multiple Primary Melanoma in the Population-Based Genes, Environment, and Melanoma (GEM) Study. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2018 Letter GET IT
Expedited approval programs at the Food and Drug Administration. Clinical trials (London, England). 2018 Editorial Article GET IT
Inherited Genetic Variants Associated with Melanoma BRAF/NRAS Subtypes. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
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RE: "A MULTINOMIAL REGRESSION APPROACH TO MODEL OUTCOME HETEROGENEITY". American journal of epidemiology. 2018 Letter GET IT
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Zero tolerance for acronyms. Clinical trials (London, England). 2017 Editorial Article GET IT
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The interaction between vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and sun exposure around time of diagnosis influences melanoma survival. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Specifying the True- and False-Positive Rates in Basket Trials. JCO precision oncology. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Functional melanoma-risk variant IRF4 rs12203592 associated with Breslow thickness: a pooled international study of primary melanomas. The British journal of dermatology. 2017 Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
Association of Incident Amelanotic Melanoma With Phenotypic Characteristics, MC1R Status, and Prior Amelanotic Melanoma. JAMA dermatology. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Contralateral breast cancers: Independent cancers or metastases?. International journal of cancer. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
Associations of MC1R Genotype and Patient Phenotypes with BRAF and NRAS Mutations in Melanoma. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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A comparison of statistical methods for the study of etiologic heterogeneity. Statistics in medicine. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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No association between prediagnosis exercise and survival in patients with high-risk primary melanoma: A population-based study. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 2017 Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
Estimating the probability of clonal relatedness of pairs of tumors in cancer patients. Biometrics. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Defining Cancer Subtypes With Distinctive Etiologic Profiles: An Application to the Epidemiology of Melanoma. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Examining the common aetiology of serous ovarian cancers and basal-like breast cancers using double primaries. British journal of cancer. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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An efficient basket trial design. Statistics in medicine. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 86
Proceedings of the third international molecular pathological epidemiology (MPE) meeting. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 2017 Information Resource GET IT
Times cited: 15
Editorial. Clinical trials (London, England). 2016 Editorial Article GET IT
Cautionary Note on Using Cross-Validation for Molecular Classification. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
Variants in autophagy-related genes and clinical characteristics in melanoma: a population-based study. Cancer medicine. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 21
Editorial. Clinical trials (London, England). 2016 Editorial Article GET IT
Using the Lorenz Curve to Characterize Risk Predictiveness and Etiologic Heterogeneity. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 28
Clonal relationships between lobular carcinoma in situ and other breast malignancies. Breast cancer research : BCR. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
Nevus count associations with pigmentary phenotype, histopathological melanoma characteristics and survival from melanoma. International journal of cancer. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Patterns and sources of information about family melanoma risk among melanoma survivors. Melanoma management. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Association of Interferon Regulatory Factor-4 Polymorphism rs12203592 With Divergent Melanoma Pathways. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 27
USING SOMATIC MUTATION DATA TO TEST TUMORS FOR CLONAL RELATEDNESS. The annals of applied statistics. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and survival in patients with cutaneous melanoma: a population-based study. Carcinogenesis. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 50
Association Between NRAS and BRAF Mutational Status and Melanoma-Specific Survival Among Patients With Higher-Risk Primary Melanoma. JAMA oncology. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 163
Identifying Etiologically Distinct Sub-Types of Cancer: A Demonstration Project Involving Breast Cancer. Cancer medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 14
Inherited genetic variants associated with occurrence of multiple primary melanoma. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
Ethical concerns about adaptive randomization. Clinical trials (London, England). 2015 Editorial Article GET IT
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Inherited variation at MC1R and histological characteristics of primary melanoma. PloS one. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Genomic investigation of etiologic heterogeneity: methodologic challenges. BMC medical research methodology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Comparison of clinicopathologic features and survival of histopathologically amelanotic and pigmented melanomas: a population-based study. JAMA dermatology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 148
Inherited variation at MC1R and ASIP and association with melanoma-specific survival. International journal of cancer. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
"Right to Try" laws. Clinical trials (London, England). 2014 Editorial Article GET IT
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Sun exposure and melanoma survival: a GEM study. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 23
Blocking and randomization to improve molecular biomarker discovery. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Breast cancer after chest radiation therapy for childhood cancer. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 237
Editorial transition. Clinical trials (London, England). 2014 Editorial Article GET IT
MITF E318K's effect on melanoma risk independent of, but modified by, other risk factors. Pigment cell & melanoma research. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte grade in primary melanomas is independently associated with melanoma-specific survival in the population-based genes, environment and melanoma study. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 237
Justifying the choice of endpoints for clinical trials. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2013 Editorial Article GET IT
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A conceptual and methodological framework for investigating etiologic heterogeneity. Statistics in medicine. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
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An assessment of estimation methods for generalized linear mixed models with binary outcomes. Statistics in medicine. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 51
Contralateral breast cancer after radiotherapy among BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: a WECARE study report. European journal of cancer. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 67
Risk of asynchronous contralateral breast cancer in noncarriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with a family history of breast cancer: a report from the Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 100
Comparing ROC curves derived from regression models. Statistics in medicine. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 68
Detecting and exploiting etiologic heterogeneity in epidemiologic studies. American journal of epidemiology. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Clonal relatedness between lobular carcinoma in situ and synchronous malignant lesions. Breast cancer research : BCR. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Comment on "the predictive capacity of personal genome sequencing". Science translational medicine. 2012 Letter GET IT
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Risk of non-melanoma cancers in first-degree relatives of CDKN2A mutation carriers. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Rare germline mutations in PALB2 and breast cancer risk: a population-based study. Human mutation. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 74
Clinicopathologic features of incident and subsequent tumors in patients with multiple primary cutaneous melanomas. Annals of surgical oncology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Interaction of CDKN2A and sun exposure in the etiology of melanoma in the general population. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2011 Article GET IT
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Sun exposure, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms FokI and BsmI and risk of multiple primary melanoma. Cancer epidemiology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Clonality: an R package for testing clonal relatedness of two tumors from the same patient based on their genomic profiles. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Assessment of rare BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants of unknown significance using hierarchical modeling. Genetic epidemiology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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One statistical test is sufficient for assessing new predictive markers. BMC medical research methodology. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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A strategy for distinguishing optimal cancer subtypes. International journal of cancer. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Associations of cumulative sun exposure and phenotypic characteristics with histologic solar elastosis. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 47
MC1R genotype may modify the effect of sun exposure on melanoma risk in the GEM study. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
Hierarchical modeling for estimating relative risks of rare genetic variants: properties of the pseudo-likelihood method. Biometrics. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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A metastasis or a second independent cancer? Evaluating the clonal origin of tumors using array copy number data. Statistics in medicine. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Population-based study of the risk of second primary contralateral breast cancer associated with carrying a mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 151
Physician visits prior to treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer. Archives of internal medicine. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 137
Characterization of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deleterious mutations and variants of unknown clinical significance in unilateral and bilateral breast cancer: the WECARE study. Human mutation. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Testing clonal relatedness of tumors using array comparative genomic hybridization: a statistical challenge. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Comments and response on the USPSTF recommendation on screening for breast cancer. Annals of internal medicine. 2010 Article GET IT
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Adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer in BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers in a population-based study of risk of contralateral breast cancer. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 53
Reproductive factors and risk of contralateral breast cancer by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status: results from the WECARE study. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Melanoma molecular subtypes: unifying and paradoxical results. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2010 Article GET IT
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Relationship between germline MC1R variants and BRAF-mutant melanoma in a North Carolina population-based study. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2009 Article GET IT
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Sun protection and skin self-examination in melanoma survivors. Psycho-oncology. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 77
Genomic and mutational profiling to assess clonal relationships between multiple non-small cell lung cancers. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
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The influence over a period of 8 years of patterns of prescribing palivizumab for patients with and without congenitally malformed hearts, and in admissions to paediatric intensive care. Cardiology in the young. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
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Evaluation of the clonal origin of multiple primary melanomas using molecular profiling. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
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Alcohol intake and cigarette smoking and risk of a contralateral breast cancer: The Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study. American journal of epidemiology. 2009 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 44
Meta-analysis methods for diagnostic accuracy. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2008 Article GET IT
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Variants in the ATM gene associated with a reduced risk of contralateral breast cancer. Cancer research. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 45
DNA damage and repair capacity in patients with lung cancer: prediction of multiple primary tumors. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 60
Estimating the empirical Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in the presence of error with nested data. Statistics in medicine. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Disenrollment from Medicare managed care among beneficiaries with and without a cancer diagnosis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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The use of hierarchical models for estimating relative risks of individual genetic variants: an application to a study of melanoma. Statistics in medicine. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Risk for contralateral breast cancer among carriers of the CHEK2*1100delC mutation in the WECARE Study. British journal of cancer. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
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Variation of breast cancer risk among BRCA1/2 carriers. JAMA. 2008 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 243
Effect of systemic adjuvant treatment on risk for contralateral breast cancer in the Women's Environment, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 64
Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes. Revista portuguesa de pneumologia. 2007 Article GET IT
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Letter to the editor of Biometrics. Biometrics. 2007 Article GET IT
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Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias by Ofer Harel and Xiao-Hua Zhou, Statistics in Medicine 2006; 25:3769-3786. Statistics in medicine. 2007 Letter GET IT
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Statistical tests for clonality. Biometrics. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
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Number of nevi and early-life ambient UV exposure are associated with BRAF-mutant melanoma. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 154
Reproductive history and risk of second primary breast cancer: the WECARE study. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 23
Properties of analysis methods that account for clustering in volume-outcome studies when the primary predictor is cluster size. Statistics in medicine. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes. JAMA. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 480
CDKN2A germline mutations in individuals with cutaneous malignant melanoma. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 45
Ambient UV, personal sun exposure and risk of multiple primary melanomas. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 2007 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 97
Population-based study of natural variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene and melanoma. Cancer research. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 103
The prevalence of CDKN2A germ-line mutations and relative risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma: an international population-based study. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 90
A design for cancer case-control studies using only incident cases: experience with the GEM study of melanoma. International journal of epidemiology. 2006 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 57
Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of multiple primary melanoma: the Genes Environment and Melanoma Study. Carcinogenesis. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 85
Lifetime risk of melanoma in CDKN2A mutation carriers in a population-based sample. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 158
The effect of changes in tumor size on breast carcinoma survival in the U.S.: 1975-1999. Cancer. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 100
Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies require study by study examination: first for heterogeneity, and then for sources of heterogeneity. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2005 Article GET IT
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Cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: patterns and outcomes of care in the Medicare population. Urology. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
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Reflections on publication criteria for genetic association studies. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2005 Article GET IT
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Variations among high volume surgeons in the rate of complications after radical prostatectomy: further evidence that technique matters. The Journal of urology. 2005 Academic Article GET IT
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Benchmarking lung cancer mortality rates in current and former smokers. Chest. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 41
Reflections on the landmark studies of beta-carotene supplementation. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2004 Editorial Article GET IT
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Familial aggregation of melanoma risks in a large population-based sample of melanoma cases. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
A method for evaluating the impact of individual haplotypes on disease incidence in molecular epidemiology studies. Statistical applications in genetics and molecular biology. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Two-stage designs for gene-disease association studies with sample size constraints. Biometrics. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 105
Estimating the relative risk of developing melanoma in INK4A carriers. European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP). 2004 Academic Article GET IT
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Variations among individual surgeons in the rate of positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy specimens. The Journal of urology. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 286
The effect of clustering of outcomes on the association of procedure volume and surgical outcomes. Annals of internal medicine. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 273
Surgeon volume compared to hospital volume as a predictor of outcome following primary colon cancer resection. Journal of surgical oncology. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 202
Variation of serum prostate-specific antigen levels: an evaluation of year-to-year fluctuations. JAMA. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 188
Adherence to surveillance among patients with superficial bladder cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 105
Kin-cohort evaluation of relative risks of genetic variants. Genetic epidemiology. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
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Variations in lung cancer risk among smokers. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2003 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 437
Taking stock of volume-outcome studies. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2003 Editorial Article GET IT
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Hospital and surgeon procedure volume as predictors of outcome following rectal cancer resection. Annals of surgery. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 310
Adjuvant chemotherapy use for Medicare beneficiaries with stage II colon cancer. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Lack of effect of a low-fat, high-fruit, -vegetable, and -fiber diet on serum prostate-specific antigen of men without prostate cancer: results from a randomized trial. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 51
On the use of familial aggregation in population-based case probands for calculating penetrance. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
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Measuring complications of cancer treatment using the SEER-Medicare data. Medical care. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 92
A comparison of methods to detect publication bias in meta-analysis by P. Macaskill, S. D. Walter and L. Irwig, Statistics in Medicine, 2001; 20:641-654. Statistics in medicine. 2002 Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
Variations in morbidity after radical prostatectomy. The New England journal of medicine. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 710
Reporting participation in case-control studies. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 48
Two-stage designs for gene-disease association studies. Biometrics. 2002 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 96
The mammography controversy. The oncologist. 2002 Review GET IT
Times cited: 11
Who gets adjuvant treatment for stage II and III rectal cancer? Insight from surveillance, epidemiology, and end results--Medicare. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 133
The influence of hospital volume on survival after resection for lung cancer. The New England journal of medicine. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 551
Age and adjuvant chemotherapy use after surgery for stage III colon cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 415
The lifetime risks of breast cancer in Ashkenazi Jewish carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 190
The search for cancer risk factors: when can we stop looking?. American journal of public health. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 32
Two cheers for P-values?. Journal of epidemiology and biostatistics. 2001 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 50
Influence of hospital procedure volume on outcomes following surgery for colon cancer. JAMA. 2000 Academic Article GET IT
Comparing tumour staging and grading systems: a case study and a review of the issues, using thymoma as a model. Statistics in medicine. 2000 Academic Article GET IT
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Properties of a nonparametric test for early comparison of treatments in clinical trials in the presence of surrogate endpoints. Biometrics. 1999 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 9
Phase III multicenter randomized trial of the Dartmouth regimen versus dacarbazine in patients with metastatic melanoma. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1999 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 613
Impact of hospital volume on operative mortality for major cancer surgery. JAMA. 1998 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1359
CT detection of retroperitoneal lymph node metastases in patients with clinical stage I testicular nonseminomatous germ cell cancer: assessment of size and distribution criteria. AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 1997 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 112
Planning controlled clinical trials. Prostatic cancer. Urology. 1997 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 5
Pathological staging and biochemical recurrence after neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy in combination with radical prostatectomy in clinically localized prostate cancer: results of a phase II study. British journal of urology. 1997 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
A note on the estimation of relative risks of rare genetic susceptibility markers. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 1997 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Optimal sample size for a series of pilot trials of new agents. Biometrics. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 36
Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement. JAMA. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
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Role of video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of pulmonary metastases: results of a prospective trial. The Annals of thoracic surgery. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 228
Screening for cutaneous melanoma by skin self-examination. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 334
A case-series study of p53 nuclear overexpression in early-stage stomach cancer. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1995 Academic Article GET IT
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Methodology for evaluating the incidence of second primary cancers with application to smoking-related cancers from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. American journal of epidemiology. 1995 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 90
Family history of cancer, body weight, and p53 nuclear overexpression in Duke's C colorectal cancer. British journal of cancer. 1995 Academic Article GET IT
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Risk factors and p53 nuclear overexpression in early stage intestinal-type adenocarcinoma of the stomach. Cancer detection and prevention. 1995 Academic Article GET IT
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Operating characteristics of a rank correlation test for publication bias. Biometrics. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
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ROC curve regression analysis: the use of ordinal regression models for diagnostic test assessment. Environmental health perspectives. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 31
Methodological issues in studies of the treatment, diagnosis, and etiology of prostate cancer. Seminars in oncology. 1994 Information Resource GET IT
Times cited: 17
Post-therapy change in prostate-specific antigen levels as a clinical trial endpoint in hormone-refractory prostatic cancer: a trial with 10-ethyl-deaza-aminopterin. Urology. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Prognostic factors for recurrence and survival in head and neck soft tissue sarcomas. Cancer. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 144
Factors associated with p53 nuclear accumulation in prostatic adenocarcinoma. International journal of oncology. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Statistical analysis of molecular epidemiology studies employing case-series. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 1994 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 191
Age and Hodgkin's disease: the impact of competing risks and possibly salvage therapy on long term survival: an E.C.O.G. study. Leukemia research. 1993 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 11
Timing of radiotherapy in the treatment of early-stage breast cancer. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1993 Letter GET IT
Times cited: 13
Prognostic factors in differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid gland. American journal of surgery. 1992 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 330
A model for incorporating historical controls into a meta-analysis. Biometrics. 1991 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
The effect of local control on metastatic dissemination in carcinoma of the prostate: long-term results in patients treated with 125I implantation. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 1991 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 392
Diamond's correction method--a real gem or just cubic zirconium?. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1991 Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Quality of cancer clinical trials. Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. 1990 Editorial Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Suspended judgment. Significance tests of covariate imbalance in clinical trials. Controlled clinical trials. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
Testing for fetal pulmonary maturity: ROC analysis involving covariates, verification bias, and combination testing. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 47
High-dose thiotepa alone and in combination regimens with bone marrow support. Seminars in oncology. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 39
Consensus diagnoses and "gold standards". Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1990 Article GET IT
Times cited: 24
High-dose ifosfamide with mesna uroprotection: a phase I study. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1990 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 139
Experimental design of medical imaging trials. Issues and options. Investigative radiology. 1989 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
A phase I clinical and pharmacokinetic study of carboplatin and autologous bone marrow support. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1989 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 189
Cancer chemotherapy in the elderly. Seminars in oncology. 1989 Information Resource GET IT
Times cited: 66
Diverse prognosis in metastatic breast cancer: who should be offered alternative initial therapies?. Breast cancer research and treatment. 1989 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 65
Methodologic standards for diagnostic test assessment studies. Journal of general internal medicine. 1988 Editorial Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
A general regression methodology for ROC curve estimation. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1988 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 196
The association of patients' socioeconomic characteristics with the length of hospital stay and hospital charges within diagnosis-related groups. The New England journal of medicine. 1988 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 110
Assessment of radiologic tests: control of bias and other design considerations. Radiology. 1988 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 180
High peripheral blast count in adult acute myelogenous leukemia is a primary risk factor for CNS leukemia. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1988 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 29
Human hypervariable sequences in risk assessment: rare Ha-ras alleles in cancer patients. Environmental health perspectives. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
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Pharmacokinetics of continuous-infusion high-dose thiotepa. Cancer treatment reports. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
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Response to ROC steady. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 4
Biases in the assessment of diagnostic tests. Statistics in medicine. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 399
Eligibility and extrapolation in cancer clinical trials. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 45
The impact of treatment allocation procedures on nominal significance levels and bias. Controlled clinical trials. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
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Evaluation of efficient designs for observational epidemiologic studies. Biometrics. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
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The effect of age on the care of women with breast cancer in community hospitals. Journal of gerontology. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Prolonged unmaintained remission after intensive consolidation therapy in adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Cancer treatment reports. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 44
Cancer clinical trials in the USA: patient eligibility, generalizability of results and technology transfer. Bulletin du cancer. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
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Risk factor analysis of screening data. Journal of chronic diseases. 1987 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 1
The use of ambulatory testing in prepaid and fee-for-service group practices. Relation to perceived profitability. The New England journal of medicine. 1986 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 57
Statistical methods in medical diagnosis. Critical reviews in medical informatics. 1986 Information Resource GET IT
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The influence of uninterpretability on the assessment of diagnostic tests. Journal of chronic diseases. 1986 Academic Article GET IT
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Assessment of diagnostic technologies. Methodology for unbiased estimation from samples of selectively verified patients. Investigative radiology. 1985 Academic Article GET IT
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A measure to aid in the interpretation of published clinical trials. Statistics in medicine. 1985 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 74
Probabilistic sensitivity analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. A practical approach. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1985 Academic Article GET IT
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The effects of physicians' training and personality on test ordering for ambulatory patients. American journal of public health. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
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Estimation of risks when verification of disease status is obtained in a selected group of subjects. American journal of epidemiology. 1984 Article GET IT
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Full dose versus attenuated dose daunorubicin, cytosine arabinoside, and 6-thioguanine in the treatment of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia in the elderly. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
Treatment allocation for nonlinear models in clinical trials: the logistic model. Biometrics. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 32
A critical comparison of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation and conventional chemotherapy as treatment for acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
A randomized study of the efficacy of consolidation therapy in adult acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Blood. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
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Construction of receiver operating characteristic curves when disease verification is subject to selection bias. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
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Patient-oriented performance measures of diagnostic tests. 1. Tools for prospective evaluation of test order decisions. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Patient-oriented performance measures of diagnostic tests. 2. Assignment potential and assignment strength. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Patient-oriented performance measures of diagnostic tests. 3. U-Factor. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1984 Academic Article GET IT
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Adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Correlation of cell surface marker phenotype with prognosis, the new working formulation, and the Rappaport and Lukes-Collins histomorphologic schemes. Cancer. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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Clinical trials and drug toxicity in the elderly. The experience of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Cancer. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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Cooperative groups and community hospitals. Measurement of impact in the community hospitals. Cancer. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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The effects of group size on test ordering for hypertensive patients. The New England journal of medicine. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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Assessment of diagnostic tests when disease verification is subject to selection bias. Biometrics. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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Alcohol consumption and breast cancer. Lancet (London, England). 1983 Article GET IT
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A comparative clinical trial of adriamycin and 5-fluorouracil in advanced prostatic cancer: prognostic factors and response. The Prostate. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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Methodology for the differential diagnosis of a complex data set. A case study using data from routine CT scan examinations. Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
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The participation of community hospitals in cancer clinical trials: results and impact of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Program. Progress in clinical and biological research. 1983 Academic Article GET IT
Participation of community hospitals in clinical trials: analysis of five years of experience in the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. The New England journal of medicine. 1982 Academic Article GET IT
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A study of the use of the probability-of-being-in-response function as a summary of tumor response data. Biometrics. 1982 Academic Article GET IT
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Evaluation of bone marrow toxic reaction in patients treated with allopurinol. JAMA. 1982 Academic Article GET IT
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Surface marker identification of small cleaved follicular center cell lymphomas with a highly favorable prognosis. Cancer research. 1982 Academic Article GET IT
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The comparison of total body irradiation vs chlorambucil and prednisone for remission induction of active chronic lymphocytic leukemia: an ECOG study. Part I: total body irradiation-response and toxicity. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 1981 Academic Article GET IT
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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group study of the cytochemistry of adult acute myeloid leukemia by correlation of subtypes with response and survival. Cancer research. 1981 Academic Article GET IT
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Phase II study of vinblastine-CCNU, triazinate, and dactinomycin in advanced renal cell cancer. Cancer treatment reports. 1981 Academic Article GET IT
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Treatment of renal carcinoma: a phase III randomized trial of oral medroxyprogesterone (Provera), hydroxyurea, and nafoxidine. Cancer treatment reports. 1981 Academic Article GET IT
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The impact of malnutrition on treatment results in breast cancer. Cancer treatment reports. 1981 Academic Article GET IT
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Prognostic effect of weight loss prior to chemotherapy in cancer patients. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. The American journal of medicine. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
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Half-body and local chest irradiation as consolidation following response to standard induction chemotherapy for disseminated small cell lung cancer: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group pilot report. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
A treatment allocation procedure for sequential clinical trials. Biometrics. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
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Marrow transplantation for acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia. The New England journal of medicine. 1980 Article GET IT
Are the elderly predisposed to toxicity from cancer chemotherapy? An investigation using data from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Cancer clinical trials. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
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Randomized clinical trial comparing two dose regimens of ICRF-159 in refractory malignant lymphomas. Cancer treatment reports. 1980 Academic Article GET IT
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Chemotherapy for advanced germinal cell neoplasms: preliminary report of an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Study. Cancer treatment reports. 1979 Academic Article GET IT
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VM-26, a new anticancer drug with effectiveness in malignant lymphoma: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Study (EST 1474). Cancer treatment reports. 1979 Academic Article GET IT
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Comparison of adriamycin with cyclophosphamide in patients with advanced endometrial cancer. Cancer treatment reports. 1978 Academic Article GET IT
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Use of coagulation tests to predict the clinical progress of pre-eclampsia. Lancet (London, England). 1976 Academic Article GET IT
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Proceedings: The use of logistic analysis to distinguish between normal and pre-eclamptic patients. Thrombosis et diathesis haemorrhagica. 1975 Academic Article GET IT
Abnormalities of coagulation and the development of malignant phase hypertension. Kidney international. Supplement. 1975 Academic Article GET IT
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Ph.D., University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) 1976

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Colin B. Begg

VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Colin B. Begg Professor of Biostatistics in Population Health Sciences

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