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Tom Pickles

- Verified email at bccancer.bc.ca - Cited by 10378

Tim Pickles

- Verified email at cardiff.ac.uk - Cited by 620

Personalised risk communication for informed decision making about taking screening tests

…, G Naik, H Ahmed, GJ Elwyn, T Pickles… - Cochrane database …, 2013 - cochranelibrary.com
Background There is a trend towards greater patient involvement in healthcare decisions.
Although screening is usually perceived as good for the health of the population, there are …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-treatment risk stratification of prostate cancer patients: A critical review

G Rodrigues, P Warde, T Pickles, J Crook… - Canadian Urological …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The use of accepted prostate cancer risk stratification groups based on prostate-specific
antigen, T stage and Gleason score assists in therapeutic treatment decision-making, clinical …

Active surveillance for prostate cancer: a systematic review of clinicopathologic variables and biomarkers for risk stratification

…, SM Bruinsma, J Nicholson, A Briganti, T Pickles… - European urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Context Active surveillance (AS) is an important strategy to reduce prostate cancer overtreatment.
However, the optimal criteria for eligibility and predictors of progression while on AS …

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer worldwide: the PRIAS study

M Bul, X Zhu, R Valdagni, T Pickles, Y Kakehi… - European urology, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis and subsequent overtreatment are important side effects of
screening for, and early detection of, prostate cancer (PCa). Active surveillance (AS) is of …

A decade of active surveillance in the PRIAS study: an update and evaluation of the criteria used to recommend a switch to active treatment

…, R Valdagni, A Rannikko, Y Kakehi, T Pickles… - European urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The Prostate Cancer Research International Active Surveillance (PRIAS) study
was initiated a decade ago to study the most optimal selection and follow-up of men on …

Small cell carcinoma of the bladder: long term outcome with integrated chemoradiation

C Lohrisch, N Murray, T Pickles… - … International Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Small cell carcinoma of the bladder (SCCB) is an uncommon tumor with
approximately 8% 5‐year survival reported in the literature for patients with disease confined to …

Predictive factors for acute and late urinary toxicity after permanent prostate brachytherapy: long-term outcome in 712 consecutive patients

M Keyes, S Miller, V Moravan, T Pickles… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
… Differences between the mean values were tested using the t test. The interval to IPSS
resolution was examined using Kaplan-Meier curves and the log–rank test for individual factors. …

Training practitioners to deliver opportunistic multiple behaviour change counselling in primary care: a cluster randomised trial

CC Butler, SA Simpson, K Hood, D Cohen, T Pickles… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objectives To evaluate the effect of training primary care health professionals in behaviour
change counselling on the proportion of patients self reporting change in four risk behaviours …

Confirmation of a low α/β ratio for prostate cancer treated by external beam radiation therapy alone using a post-treatment repeated-measures model for PSA …

…, S Sécher, H Sandler, L Kestin, T Pickles… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
… The model was adjusted for standard prognostic factors (T stage, initial PSA level, and
Gleason score) and cohort-specific effects. The radiation dose fractionation effect was estimated …

Short‐term outcomes of the prospective multicentre 'Prostate Cancer Research International: Active Surveillance'study

…, JJ Vis‐Maters, JB Rietbergen, T Pickles… - BJU …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… Men with DRE upstaging had a longer follow-up after diagnosis (t-test P = 0.009), but
were not significantly different from other men in baseline characteristics (all P > 0.05). Re-biopsies …