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Key takeaway: Although general health and environmental factors couldn't be ruled out, socioeconomic factors, certain demographic characteristics, and cancer diagnosis and registry practices may all play a significant role in driving such variation.

Really proud to see my latest publication out in print. A labour of love across many organisations and multidisciplinary collaborators to explore determinants of regional variation in incidence of non-malignant meningioma across the US. dx.doi.org/10.1002/cncr...

Data Scientists x 3 at The Royal College of Surgeons of England Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Come work with me @naopri-natcan.bsky.social and @naome-natcan.bsky.social on National Cancer Audits. 3 Data Scientist/Analyst positions available!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP019/d...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Now with a link to the pdf rdcu.be/ebhmX

Interested in health, data, and ethnicity?

In the wake of COVID-19, HDR UK set up a Special Interest Group on Ethnicity Coding Standards and welcomed me and many many others to take part. It was a great example of open-collaboration that resulted in this paper in Nature Medicine.

Adult brain cancer incidence patterns: A comparative study between Japan and Japanese Americans The risk factors for brain tumors remain largely unknown. Building on the legacy of migration studies, this study compared the incidence of adult malignant brain and central nervous system tumors in ...

We compared brain tumour incidence rates in Japan (lower) to those in Japanese Americans (lowest) and US NHW populations (highest). Conducted over 4 years and 3 continents, all a credit to the US NCI! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In November, 2024, a Working Group of 22 scientists (including me!) met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, to finalise their evaluation of the carcinogenicity of hydrochlorothiazide, voriconazole, and tacrolimus.
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