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The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Shanmugavadivel, D., Liu, J., Ball-Gamble, A., Polanco, A., Vedhara, K., Walker, D., & Ojha, S. (2022). The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer. BMJ Open, 12(2), Article e058744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058744

Introduction: Childhood cancer is diagnosed in 400 000 children and young people (CYP) aged 0–19 years worldwide annually. In the UK, a child’s cumulative cancer risk increases from 1 in 4690 from birth to aged 1, to 1 in 470 by age 15. Once diagnose... Read More about The Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer.

Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer (2022)
Journal Article
Shanmugavadivel, D., Liu, J., Gamble, A., Polanco, A., Vedhara, K., Walker, D., & Ojha, S. (2022). Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer. BMJ Open, 12(2), Article e058744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058744

Introduction: Childhood cancer is diagnosed in 400,000 children and young people (CYP) aged 0-19 years worldwide annually. In the UK, a child’s cumulative cancer risk increases from 1 in 4690 from birth to aged 1, to 1 in 470 by age 15. Once diagnose... Read More about Childhood Cancer Diagnosis (CCD) Study: a UK observational study to describe referral pathways and quantify diagnostic intervals in children and young people with cancer.

Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF (2016)
Journal Article
Massey, A., Campbell, B. K., Raine-Fenning, N., Pincott-Allen, C., Perry, J., & Vedhara, K. (2016). Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.08.027

Evidence for an association between cortisol and clinical pregnancy in women undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is mixed with previous studies relying exclusively on short term measures of cortisol in blood, saliva, urine, and/or follicular flui... Read More about Relationship between hair and salivary cortisol and pregnancy in women undergoing IVF.

Anxiety associated with diagnostic uncertainties in early pregnancy. (2016)
Journal Article
Richardson, A., Raine-Fenning, N., Deb, S., Campbell, B., & Vedhara, K. (in press). Anxiety associated with diagnostic uncertainties in early pregnancy. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.17214

Objectives: To determine anxiety levels of women presenting to Early Pregnancy Assessment Units (EPAU) with abdominal pain and/or vaginal bleeding and assess how these change over time and according to ultrasonographic diagnosis. Methods: We under... Read More about Anxiety associated with diagnostic uncertainties in early pregnancy..

Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome? (2015)
Journal Article
Vedhara, K., Gill, S., Eldesouky, L., Campbell, B. K., Arevalo, J. M., Ma, J., & Cole, S. W. (2015). Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 52, 72-82. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.028

Background The temporal and situational stability of personality has led generations of researchers to hypothesize that personality may have enduring effects on health, but the biological mechanisms of such relationships remain poorly understood. In... Read More about Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?.