Saturday 19 December 2009

Rates of cancer, cervical cancer and other serious illnesses

Causes of death, male and female, UK 2010
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-230730


World Health Organisation - causes of death in women worldwide
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs334/en/index.html

Added 20 Dec 09
Cervical cancer incidences by age etc in the UK
http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/cervix/incidence/

Added 21 Dec 09
Cervical cancer link to early sex
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8420690.stm

Cancer in Australia, an overview, 2006
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/can/ca06/ca06.pdf

Types of cancer and information (US)
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/

United States Cancer Statistics
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/

Estimated new cancer cases and deaths by sex, US, 2005-2011, including splits by ethnicity
http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/index


Re-evaluating the risk of breast cancer - article on the distraction of cancer from other major health risks
http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/1029c.html

Added 27th Dec 09 - pages 849 and 850 most relevant
"The risk of death by age, sex and smoking status in the US - putting risks in context"
http://www.vaoutcomes.org/papers/JNCI_2008.pdf

Added 1 Jan 2010
Incidences of cervical cancer
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B8MMW-4W1VWDB-1K&_user=10&_origUdi=B6WGD-4CXKYF6-2D&_fmt=high&_coverDate=04%2F10%2F2009&_rdoc=1&_orig=article&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=98b94d20491f0220425a95f8a327cd24

Added 1 Jan 2010
The social and demographic characteristics of women dying from cervical cancer in Nottingham (UK)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B73H6-4GTWCJ9-8&_user=10&_origUdi=B6VBF-3VV412M-1T&_fmt=high&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1990&_rdoc=1&_orig=article&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=76b7973744fef5daaa9a1a7d27095c3d

Added 8 Jan 2010
Social/demographic/medical 'stuff' per State (USA)
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/

Added 9 Jan 2010
Way of calculating what you might die of (for when you don't want to sleep at night....)
http://www.deathriskrankings.com/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Added April 2010
Sexual practices and menstruation - risks for cervical cancer (South Africa)
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sexual+and+menstrual+practices:+risks+for+cervix+cancer.-a0170582037

Added July 2010 - women living with incurable STDs
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oqICrB6M6AIC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=damaged+by+gynaecological+exam&source=bl&ots=bLWqsjPYkm&sig=UAy5wG6aHj31Nwp1MMVlFoipZ0M&hl=en&ei=-8gzTKL-H42M0gS1yvmXAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCoQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Added Decenber 2011 - (there's no internet link and I cannot upload a copy due to copyright, however this should be available in most medical libraries).
Journal of American College of Cardiology, Vol. 58, No. 19, 2011 "a report of significant association between being HPV positive and the presence of atherosclerotic heart disease."