Brian Cox

Brian Cox is an Associate Professor and a Specialist in public health medicine and cancer epidemiology with an honorary degree in mathematics and statistics. He directs the Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit, which is funded by Director's Cancer Research Trust, at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago. He also chairs the New Zealand Cancer Control Trust. His research has focused on cancers of the cervix, breast, colon, rectum, lung, and prostate as well as oral cancers and leukaemia. He has been involved in both the development and monitoring of breast and cervical screening in New Zealand, case-control studies of prostate and colorectal cancer, the assessment of prostate cancer screening, and the development of microsimulation models of screening services. He is also interested in the relationship between the epidemiology of cancer and the biological mechanisms of cancer causation.

Biography Updated on 18 July 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Cannabis use and cancer of the head and neck: Case-control study
    Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 374–380, 2008
  2. Ethnic Differences in the Management of Lung Cancer in New Zealand
    Journal of Thoracic Oncology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 237–244, 2008
  3. Lung Cancer in New Zealand: Patterns of Secondary Care and Implications for Survival
    Journal of Thoracic Oncology, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 481–493, 2007
  4. Risk factors for prostate cancer: A national case-control study
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 119, no. 7, pp. 1690–1694, 2006
  5. Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer: Diagnosis and Management
    Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 262–275, 2006
  6. Breast cancer detection rates, and standardised detection ratios for prevalence screening in the New Zealand breast cancer screening programme
    Journal of Medical Screening, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 65–69, 2004
  7. National audit of women with abnormal cervical smears in New Zealand
    The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 152–156, 2003
  8. PSA testing and digital rectal examination in New Zealand
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 502–506, 2003
  9. Vasectomy and Risk of Prostate Cancer
    JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 287, no. 23, pp. 3110–3115, 2002
  10. High prevalence of vasectomy in New Zealand
    Contraception, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 155–159, 2001
  11. Validation of the saliva-based H. pylori test, HeliSAL™, and its use in prevalence surveys
    Epidemiology and Infection, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 191–196, 2001
  12. Cancer Causes and Control, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 407–416, 1999
  13. Comparison of the site distribution of melanoma in New Zealand and Canada
    International Journal of Cancer, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 231–235, 1997
  14. Letter to the Editors
    Melanoma Research, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 436–437, 1997
  15. A stereo model using LOG and Gabor filtering
    Spatial Vision, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3–13, 1996
  16. Benefit of mammography screening in women ages 40-49 years: Current evidence from randomized controlled trials
    Cancer, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 572–573, 1996
  17. Trends in oral cancer by subsite in New Zealand
    European Journal of Cancer. Part B: Oral Oncology, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 113–117, 1995
  18. Suicide among New Zealand Maori: is history repeating itself?
    Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 453–459, 1995
  19. Latitude gradients in melanoma incidence and mortality in the non-Maori population of New Zealand
    Cancer Causes & Control, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 234–240, 1994
  20. Breast cancer screening with mammography
    The Lancet, vol. 341, no. 8859, pp. 1531–1532, 1993
  21. Impact of psychiatric services on prison suicide
    The Lancet, vol. 338, no. 8780, pp. 1436–1438, 1991
  22. Suicide in New Zealand 1957-1986: The Influence of Age, Period and Birth-Cohort
    Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 181–190, 1991