Michael Caruana

Jan 5, 2024 | thelancet.com | Qingwei Luo |Julia Steinberg |Clare Kahn |Michael Caruana

SummaryLong-term projections of premature mortality (defined as deaths age <75 years) help to inform decisions about public health priorities. This study aimed to project premature mortality rates in Australia to 2044, and to estimate numbers of deaths and potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to premature mortality overall and for 59 causes. We examined the past trends in premature mortality rates using Australian mortality data by sex, 5-year age group and 5-year calendar period up to 2019.

Dec 12, 2023 | nature.com | Michaela Hall |Kate T Simms |Michael Caruana

AbstractTo support a strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reviewed its guidelines for screening and treatment of cervical pre-cancerous lesions in 2021.

Dec 12, 2023 | nature.com | Kate T Simms |Michael Caruana |Michaela Hall |Nicolas Wentzensen

AbstractIn 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a strategy to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem. To support the strategy, the WHO published updated cervical screening guidelines in 2021. To inform this update, we used an established modeling platform, Policy1-Cervix, to evaluate the impact of seven primary screening scenarios across 78 low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) for the general population of women.

Nov 20, 2023 | petaluma360.com | Michael Caruana

My story begins with a bright side and ends with a bright side. The original bright side is the fact that with the events I’m about to describe, the statutes of limitations are past. I am number eight of ten children, and I came to this country when I was about eight years old. Aspirations of going to college were almost nil, because we didn’t have the money to do that.

Oct 11, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Michael Caruana |Roman Gulati |Ruth Etzioni |Alexandra Barratt

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics CI confidence interval ERSPC European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer NSW New South Wales NSWCR New South Wales Cancer Registry PCFA Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia PLCO Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian screening trial PSA prostate specific antigen 1 INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australian men and their second most common cause of cancer death.1 An estimated 19 508 new cases and 3306...