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  • Vaccination is often cost-effective but not (currently) HPV vaccination for boys in NZ

    … on a wide range of future health outcomes (i.e., cervical cancer, pre-cancer (CIN I to III), genital warts, and various other HPV-related cancers – such as oropharyngeal cancer). HPV vaccination of boys in NZ is not (currently) …
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  • Nitrate contamination in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes: emerging evidence is concerning for NZ

    … nitrates in drinking water are a risk factor for bowel cancer, there is also emerging evidence concerning adverse … (from here on simply mg/L) in drinking water to bowel cancer have raised public concerns over nitrate … nitrate limit does not account for the potential links to cancer or other adverse health outcomes. Attracting less …
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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … deep into the lungs and in susceptible individuals causes lung disease such as silicosis and lung cancer and in others, kidney disease and autoimmune …
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  • Ethnic inequalities in mortality in NZ and how to reduce them further

    … for Pacific females. In terms of the cause of death, cancer appeared to be becoming a more important contributor … for inequalities from CVD, diabetes and some types of cancer for both Māori and Pacific peoples (given much higher … smoking (7). Our results for ethnic inequalities in lung cancer (and also for CVD, and other cancers) reflect the …
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  • Do people who smoke make truly informed choices?

    … challenging evidence that smoking causes diseases such as lung cancer, even when their own research showed otherwise. 2 … 7 While a Canadian study found high awareness of lung cancer among adolescents who currently smoked (89.5%), …
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  • NZ’s smart use of big data: Employment & income impacts of selected health conditions

    … chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] and breast cancer) but not for melanoma and prostate cancer. “After four years, the estimated negative impacts on … and income impacts of TBI, CHD, diabetes and breast cancer decreased in size during the four years after …
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  • Death rates dropping – it is a good time to be alive

    … we have seen a major shift from cardiovascular causes to cancer deaths. Ask most people on the street what is happening with cancer rates and they will say ‘going up’. That may or may not be true for incidence (i.e. getting cancer in the first place). This varies tremendously by type …
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  • Breaking the inequity loop

    … cancers with a poor prognosis (e.g. stomach, liver and lung cancers), 7 and have poorer survival outcomes than … despite heightened awareness and increased focus on cancer disparities, the 30% disparity in lung cancer survival between Māori and non-Māori has remained …
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  • Meat, health, hospitals, and sustainability*

    … in our community who are at the highest risk of bowel cancer are those who have already been treated for it. Meat — … — are clearly established as risk factors for bowel cancer; these patients need less, not more, meat [4]. Many … Organization and the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a Class 1 (definite human) carcinogen [9] – the …
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  • In the news: The cancer-causing dangers in our workplaces

    … better monitor the long-term consequences of exposure to cancer-causing agents throughout the course of people's … on RNZ's The Detail as part of the podcast   The cancer-causing dangers in our workplaces  on 30 June … health monitoring  on 29 June. … In the news: The cancer-causing dangers in our workplaces …
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