NCARE (Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End-of-life Care)

A Case Control Study of Smoking and Basal Cell Carcinoma

Project Duration

January 2005 - 2007

Funder

University of Nottingham, Biomedical Resarch Committee Strategic Funding Initiative

Project Staff

  • Dr Fiona Bath-Hextall (PI) 1
  • Jo Leonardi-Bee 1
  • Chris Smith 1
  • Andy Meal 1
  • Richard Hubbard 1

Staff Institutions

  1. The University of Nottingham
 

Aims

To look at the relationship between smoking and Basal Cell Carcinoma.

Methods

A case control study using the THIN database.

Outcomes and Findings

This study is now complete. Findings demonstrate that nursing homes are part of a larger care system and the quality of their interrelationships with the various parts of that system determines the quality of end of life care they can provide. If a nursing home cannot access support externally, they have to work in isolation to provide end of life care and are the often the sole advocate for the residents in their care. Further, if a nursing home is unaware of specific support available in the wider system, absence of support may not be recognized and acknowledged, and their isolation and lack of confidence is compounded.

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Publications

Smoking and the Risk of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Jo Leonardi-Bee, PhD; Thomas Ellison, BMedSci; Fiona Bath-Hextall, PhD Arch Dermatol. 2012;148(8):939-946. doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2012.1374

JBI library of systematic reviews: Vol 9, No 32 Suppl (2011). Lifestyle factors of smoking, BMI and alcohol consumption on the risk of Non-Melanoma Skin cancer in adults: Systematic review. Fiona Bath-Hextall, T Ellison, J Leonardi-Bee

Regional variations of Basal cell carcinoma incidence in the UK using THIN database (2004-2010) (PDF). A. Musah, J.E. Gibson, J. Leonardi-Bee, M.R. Cave,, E.L. Ander, F. Bath-Hextall. DOI: 10.1111/bjd.12446 British Journal of Dermatology (in press)

 

 

 

 

NCARE (Nottingham Centre for the Advancement of Research into Supportive, Palliative and End-of-life Care)

University of Nottingham
School of Health Sciences
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA


email: kristian.pollock@nottingham.ac.uk