Publications and presentations of CancerTrends

Journal articles

Soeberg M, Blakely T, Sarfati D. Trends in ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival, New Zealand, 1991–2004.Cancer Epidemiology 39 (2015) 860–862.

• Supplementary Data File also available on Cancer Epidemiology Journal website
• Additional Data File for journal article

Meredith I, Sarfati D, Atkinson J, Blakely T. Thyroid cancer in Pacific women in New Zealand. NZMJ 2014; 127(139)

Blakely T, Barendregt J, Foster R, Hill S, Atkinson J, Sarfati D, Edwards R. The association of active smoking with multiple cancers: national census-cancer registry cohorts with quantitative bias analysis. Cancer Causes Control 2013; 24:1243–1255

Meredith I, Sarfati D, Ikeda T, Blakely T. Cancer in Pacific people in New Zealand. Cancer Causes Control 2012; 23:1173-1184

Meredith I, Sarfati D, Ikeda T, Atkinson J, Blakely T. High rates of endometrial cancer among Pacific women in New Zealand: the role of diabetes, physical inactivity, and obesity. Cancer Causes Control, Online first 23 April 2012.

Blakely T, Soeberg M, Carter K, Costilla R, Atkinson J, Sarfati D. Bias in relative survival methods when using incorrect life-tables: Lung and bladder cancer by smoking status and ethnicity in New Zealand. International Journal of Cancer 2012; 131: E974-E982

Shah AB, Sarfati D, Blakely T, Atkinson J, Dennett E. Trends in colorectal cancer incidence rates in New Zealand, 1981–2004. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2012; doi: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2011.05995.x

Blakely T, Shaw C, Atkinson J, Cunningham R, Sarfati D. Social inequalities or inequities in cancer incidence? Repeated census-cancer cohort studies, New Zealand 1981–1986 to 2001–2004. Cancer Causes Control 2012; doi: 10.1007/s10552-011-9804-x

Blakely T, Soeberg M, Sarfati D. Investigating changes over time in socioeconomic gaps in cancer survival: using differences in relative survival versus differences in excess mortality rates can give different answers. Annals of Oncology 2011; doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdr523

Sarfati D, Shaw C, Blakely T, Atkinson J, Stanley J. Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in testicular cancer incidence in New Zealand. International Journal of Cancer 2011: 128; 1683-91.

Cunningham R, Shaw C, Blakely T, Atkinson J, Sarfati D. Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in breast cancer incidence in New Zealand. BMC Cancer 2010: 10; 674.

Sarfati D, Blakely T, Pearce N. Measuring cancer survival in populations: relative survival vs cancer-specific survival. International Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 39 (2); 598-610.

Shaw C, Atkinson J, Blakely T. (Mis)classification of ethnicity on the New Zealand Cancer Registry: 1981-2004. New Zealand Medical Journal 2009; 122 (1294): 10-22

Jeffreys M, Sarfati D, Vladimir S, Tobias M, Lewis C, Pearce N, Blakely T. Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Survival in New Zealand: The Role of Extent of Disease at Diagnosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18(3): 915-921

Blakely T, Sarfati D, Shaw C. What proportion of cancer is due to obesity?New Zealand Medical Journal 2009; 122(1290): 9-13

Reports

Soeberg M, Blakely T, Sarfati D, Tobias M, Costilla R, Carter K, Atkinson J. Cancer Trends: Trends in cancer survival by ethnic and socioeconomic group, New Zealand 1991–2004. Wellington: University of Otago and Ministry of Health, 2012. [Read a copy of the press release].

Blakely T, Costilla R, Tobias M. The Burden of Cancer: New Zealand 2006. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2010.

Blakely T, Shaw C, Atkinson J, Tobias M, Bastiampillai N, Sloane K, Sarfati D, Cunningham R. Cancer Trends: Trends in Incidence by Ethnic and Socioeconomic Group, New Zealand 1981–2004. Wellington: University of Otago and Ministry of Health, 2010.

• Cancer Trends: Trends in Incidence by Ethnic and Socioeconomic Group, New Zealand 1981–2004 (Part 1)
• Cancer Trends: Trends in Incidence by Ethnic and Socioeconomic Group, New Zealand 1981–2004 (Part 2)
• Cancer Trends: Trends in Incidence by Ethnic and Socioeconomic Group, New Zealand 1981–2004 (Part 3)
  

Atkinson J, Shaw C, Blakely T, Stanley J, Sloane K. Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1. Wellington: Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, 2010.

• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 1)
• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 2)
• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 3)
• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 4)
• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 5)
• Linkage of Census and Cancer Registrations, 1981-2004: CancerTrends Technical Report No. 1 (Part 6)

Presentations

Blakely T. Cancer Control Research: Trends, Inequalities and Interventions. [Poster]. University of Otago, Wellington, 2012.

Soeberg M, Blakely T, Sarfati D, Tobias M, Costilla R, Carter K, Atkinson J. Trends in cancer survival by ethnic and socioeconomic group, New Zealand, 1991-2004: Key concepts, data, methods and results. University of Otago, Wellington, 2012.

Statistics New Zealand. Documentation of the process and results of linking cancer data with census data 1981 to 2001. Wellington: Statistics New Zealand, 2008.

Stanley J. "Known unknowns" : using multiple imputation to fill in the blanks for missing data. Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, 2008.

Other publications

Sarfati D, Soeberg M, Carter K, Pearce N, Blakely T. Relative versus cancer-specific survival: assumptions and potential bias. Wellington: University of Otago, Wellington, 2011.

Sarfati D, Shaw C, Atkinson J, Stanley J, Blakely T. Ethnic and socioeconomic trends in testicular cancer incidence in New Zealand. Wellington: University of Otago, Wellington, 2011.