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Bruce K. Armstrong

Bruce K. Armstrong

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Medicine

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111
Citations
47490
World Ranking
5319
National Ranking
147

Overview

Bruce K. Armstrong is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Dermatology.

The researcher's main topics of work include:

  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Vitamin D Research Studies
  • Skin Protection and Aging
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bruce K. Armstrong include:

  • Alison Venn
  • Marianne Berwick
  • Peter A. Kanetsky
  • Colin B. Begg
  • Rachel Ε. Neale

The primary publication venues where Bruce K. Armstrong's work appears most frequently include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • British Journal of Dermatology
  • The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Bruce K. Armstrong are:

  • The D-Health Trial: a randomised controlled trial of the effect of vitamin D on mortality (2022), The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Cancer screening in China: a steep road from evidence to implementation (2023), The Lancet Public Health
  • Vitamin D supplementation and major cardiovascular events: D-Health randomised controlled trial (2023), BMJ
  • Fifteen year quality of life outcomes in men with localised prostate cancer: population based Australian prospective study (2020), BMJ

Best Publications

  • Environmental factors and cancer incidence and mortality in different countries, with special reference to dietary practices

    Bruce Armstrong;Richard Doll

  • The epidemiology of UV induced skin cancer.

    Bruce K Armstrong;Anne Kricker

  • Principles of Exposure Measurement in Epidemiology

    Bruce K. Armstrong;Emily White;Rodolfo Saracci

  • Cohort profile: the 45 and up study.

    Emily Banks;Sally Redman

  • Effects of low doses and low dose rates of external ionizing radiation: cancer mortality among nuclear industry workers in three countries

    E Cardis;E S Gilbert;L Carpenter;G Howe

  • Solar Ultraviolet Radiation: Global burden of disease from solar ultraviolet radiation

    Anthony McMichael;Wayne T Smith;Bruce K Armstrong;Robyn Lucas

  • How much melanoma is caused by sun exposure

    B K Armstrong;A Kricker

  • Does intermittent sun exposure cause basal cell carcinoma? a case-control study in Western Australia.

    Anne Kricker;Bruce K. Armstrong;Bruce K. Armstrong;Dallas R. English;Peter J. Heenan

  • Sun Exposure and Mortality From Melanoma

    Marianne Berwick;Bruce K. Armstrong;Leah Ben-Porat;Judith Fine

  • A novel recurrent mutation in MITF predisposes to familial and sporadic melanoma

    Satoru Yokoyama;Susan L. Woods;Glen M. Boyle;Lauren G. Aoude

  • Pigmentary Traits, Ethnic Origin, Benign Nevi, and Family History as Risk Factors for Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

    C. D'Arcy;J. Holman;Bruce K. Armstrong

  • Relationship of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma to Individual Sunlight-Exposure Habits

    C D Holman;B K Armstrong;P J Heenan

  • A Prospective Study of Pigmentation, Sun Exposure, and Risk of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Women

    Marit Bragelien Veierød;Elisabete Weiderpass;Magnus Thörn;Johan Hansson

  • Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the InterLymph Consortium

    Nathaniel Rothman;Christine F Skibola;Sophia S Wang;Gareth Morgan

  • UV and skin cancer: specific p53 gene mutation in normal skin as a biologically relevant exposure measurement.

    Hisayoshi Nakazawa;Dallas English;Peter L. Randell;Keiko Nakazawa

  • Sunlight and cancer

    Dallas R. English;Bruce K. Armstrong;Anne Kricker;Claire Fleming

  • Sun exposure and non-melanocytic skin cancer

    Anne Kricker;Bruce K. Armstrong;Dallas R. English

  • The INTERPHONE study: Design, epidemiological methods, and description of the study population

    Elisabeth Cardis;Lesley Richardson;Isabelle Deltour;Bruce Armstrong

  • Sun exposure and melanoma risk at different latitudes: a pooled analysis of 5700 cases and 7216 controls

    Yu Mei Chang;Jennifer H. Barrett;Timothy D. Bishop;Bruce K. Armstrong

  • Estimating the global disease burden due to ultraviolet radiation exposure

    Robyn M Lucas;Anthony J McMichael;Bruce K Armstrong;Wayne T Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Marianne Berwick
Marianne Berwick University of New Mexico
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Richard P. Gallagher
Richard P. Gallagher University of British Columbia
Colin B. Begg
Colin B. Begg Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John Attia
John Attia University of Newcastle Australia
Nicholas de Klerk
Nicholas de Klerk University of Western Australia
Dallas R. English
Dallas R. English University of Melbourne
Stephen B. Gruber
Stephen B. Gruber City Of Hope National Medical Center
Lin Fritschi
Lin Fritschi Curtin University
Irene Orlow
Irene Orlow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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