School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing

Our head and neck cancer epidemiology research is focused on understanding and addressing socioeconomic inequalities across the cancer continuum from quantitying the disease burden and trends, to assessing incidence and risk factors, to investigating/screening interventions and health system factors, and to studying outcomes and survival.

We are a founding member in the establishment of the International Agency for Research, World Health Organisation (IARC-WHO). HEADSpAcE Data Centre link https://headspace.iarc.fr/                 

This resource includes well-annotated clinical and exposure data alongside biospecimens from thousands of patients with head and neck cancer and control participants.

We have contributed to the data centre though our participation in the Head and Neck cancer in South America and Europe (HEADSpAcE) multicentre cohort study funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework; and the Alcohol-Related Cancers and Genetic Susceptibility in Europe (ARCAGE) multicentre case-control study. We lead on projects related to socioeconomic inequalities, health systems and are exploring the role of the oral microbiome.

We are a member of the multidisciplinary Glasgow Head and Neck Cancer (GLAHNC) Research Group. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cancersciences/radnet/ourresearch/head_neck/

We lead on head and neck cancer inequalities research theme in the Cancer Research UK RadNet Glasgow Centre.  https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cancersciences/radnet/

Pre-Treatment Serum Prognostic Scores and Survival in Curatively Treated Laryngeal Cancer. Hurley R, Osbourne J, Inman GJ, Conway DI, Paterson C, Douglas CM. Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol. 2025 Mar 22;10(2):e70124. doi: 10.1002/lio2.70124. eCollection 2025 Apr. (PMID: 40124253)

VOYAGER: an international consortium investigating the role of human papilloma virus and genetics in oral and oropharyngeal cancer risk and survival. Gormley M, Adhikari A, Dudding T, Pring M, Hurley K, Macfarlane GJ, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Polesel J, Agudo A, Alemany L, Ahrens W, Healy CM, Conway DI, Canova C, Holcatova I, Richiardi L, Znaor A, Olshan AF, Hung RJ, Liu G, Bratman S, Zhao X, Holt J, Cortez R, Gaborieau V, McKay JD, Waterboer T, Brennan P, Hayes N, Diergaarde B, Virani S. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Feb 22:2025.02.17.25322399. doi: 10.1101/2025.02.17.25322399. (PMID: 40034767)

Advanced Stage Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis: HEADSpAcE Consortium Health Systems Benchmarking Survey. Creaney G, de Aquino Goulart M, McMahon A, Paterson C, McCaul J, Perdomo S, Mendoza L, Alemany L, Arantes LMR, Urrego PAR, Dudding T, Pring M, Vilensky M, Cuffini C, de Blanc SAL, de Oliveira JC, Pervez S, Saintigny P, Cuello M, Betka J, Pinto LFR, Curado MP, Zendehdel K, Richiardi L, Popovic M, de Podesta JR, von Zeidler SV, Rocha RM; HEADSpAcE Consortium; Alwaheidi S, Brennan P, Virani S, Ross A, Conway DI. Head Neck. 2025 Feb 24. doi: 10.1002/hed.28094. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 39994901)

Performance of 8 Smoking Metrics for Modeling Survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Lam ACL, Hueniken K, Pienkowski M, Lee JJW, Dong M, Diergaarde B, Olshan AF, Brennan P, Virani S, Saunders D, Santi SA, Conlon MSC, Waterboer T, Hayes DN, Pring M, Macfarlane GJ, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Polesel J, Agudo A, Alemany L, Ahrens W, Healy CM, Conway DI, Nygard M, Canova C, Hornakova A, Richiardi L, Znaor A, Hung RJ, Xu W, Liu G.JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025 Apr 1;151(4):360-370. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2024.5392. (PMID: 39976935)

Incidence Trends in Head and Neck Cancer Subsites: A National Population-Based Study (2001-2020). Clements K, McMahon AD, Bhatti L, Smith C, Paterson C, Douglas CM, Conway DI. Clin Otolaryngol. 2025 May;50(3):474-484. doi: 10.1111/coa.14271. Epub 2025 Jan 12. (PMID: 39800346)

Laryngeal Cancer in the West of Scotland 2014-2020: Trends and Survival in a Cohort of 867 Patients. Hurley R, Paterson C, Conway DI, Inman GJ, Douglas CM. Laryngoscope. 2025 Jun;135(6):2051-2061. doi: 10.1002/lary.31992. Epub 2025 Jan 6. (PMID: 39757891)

Cross-ancestral GWAS identifies 29 novel variants across Head and Neck Cancer subsites. Ebrahimi E, Sangphukieo A, Park HA, Gaborieau V, Ferreiro-Iglesias A, Diergaarde B, Ahrens W, Alemany L, Arantes L, Betka J, Bratman SV, Canova C, Conlon M, Conway DI, Cuello M, Curado M, de Carvalho A, de Oliviera J, Gormley M, Hadji M, Hargreaves S, Healy CM, Holcatova I, Hung RJ, Kowalski LP, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Liu G, Macfarlane GJ, Olshan AF, Perdomo S, Pinto LF, Podesta JV, Polesel J, Pring M, Rashidian H, Gama RR, Richiardi L, Robinson M, Rodriguez-Urrego PA, Santi SA, Saunders DP, Soares-Lima SC, Timpson N, Vilensky M, von Zeidler SV, Waterboer T, Zendehdel K, Znaor A, Brennan P; HEADSpAcE Consortium; McKay J, Virani S, Dudding T. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Nov 18:2024.11.18.24317473.doi: 10.1101/2024.11.18.24317473. (PMID: 39606392)

Head and neck cancer incidence is rising but the sociodemographic profile is unchanging: a population epidemiological study (2001-2020). Smith CDL, McMahon AD, Purkayastha M, Creaney G, Clements K, Inman GJ, Bhatti LA, Douglas CM, Paterson C, Conway DI. BJC Rep. 2024 Sep 17;2(1):71. doi: 10.1038/s44276-024-00089-z. eCollection 2024 Dec. (PMID:39301277)

Smoking and alcohol by HPV status in head and neck cancer: a Mendelian randomization study. Thakral A, Lee JJ, Hou T, Hueniken K, Dudding T, Gormley M, Virani S, Olshan A, Diergaarde B, Ness AR, Waterboer T, Smith-Byrne K, Brennan P, Hayes DN, Sanderson E, Brown MC, Huang S, Bratman SV, Spreafico A, De Almeida J, Davies JC, Bierut L, Macfarlane GJ, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Polesel J, Agudo A, Alemany L, Ahrens W, Healy CM, Conway DI, Nygard M, Canova C, Holcatova I, Richiardi L, Znaor A, Goldstein DP, Hung RJ, Xu W, Liu G, Espin-Garcia O. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 7;15(1):7835. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51679-x. (PMID: 39244563)

Trends and socioeconomic inequalities in the dental attendance of adult smokers in Scotland from 2009 to 2019, a repeated cross-sectional study. Warner FE, Sherriff A, Culshaw S, Holliday R, Ryan V, Conway DI. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 8;24(1):2156. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19360-6. (PMID: 39118032)

Development and external validation of a head and neck cancer risk prediction model. Smith CDL, McMahon AD, Lyall DM, Goulart M, Inman GJ, Ross A, Gormley M, Dudding T, Macfarlane GJ, Robinson M, Richiardi L, Serraino D, Polesel J, Canova C, Ahrens W, Healy CM, Lagiou P, Holcatova I, Alemany L, Znoar A, Waterboer T, Brennan P, Virani S, Conway DI. Head Neck. 2024 Sep;46(9):2261-2273. doi: 10.1002/hed.27834. Epub 2024 Jun 8. (PMID: 38850089)

Head and Neck Cancer: United Kingdom National Multidisciplinary Guidelines, Sixth Edition. Homer JJ, Winter SC, Abbey EC, Aga H, Agrawal R, Ap Dafydd D, Arunjit T, Axon P, Aynsley E, Bagwan IN, Batra A, Begg D, Bernstein JM, Betts G, Bicknell C, Bisase B, Brady GC, Brennan P, Brunet A, Bryant V, Cantwell L, Chandra A, Chengot P, Chua MLK, Clarke P, Clunie G, Coffey M, Conlon C, Conway DI, Cook F, Cooper MR, Costello D, Cosway B, Cozens NJA, Creaney G, Gahir DK, Damato S, Davies J, Davies KS, Dragan AD, Du Y, Edmond MRD, Fedele S, Finze H, Fleming JC, Foran BH, Fordham B, Foridi MMAS, Freeman L, Frew KE, Gaitonde P, Gallyer V, Gibb FW, Gore SM, Gormley M, Govender R, Greedy J, Urbano TG, Gujral D, Hamilton DW, Hardman JC, Harrington K, Holmes S, Homer JJ, Howland D, Humphris G, Hunter KD, Ingarfield K, Irving R, Isand K, Jain Y, Jauhar S, Jawad S, Jenkins GW, Kanatas A, Keohane S, Kerawala CJ, Keys W, King EV, Kong A, Lalloo F, Laws K, Leong SC, Lester S, Levy M, Lingley K, Madani G, Mani N, Matteucci PL, Mayland CR, McCaul J, McCaul LK, McDonnell P, McPartlin A, Mercadante V, Merchant Z, Mihai R, Moonim MT, Moore J, Nankivell P, Natu S, Nelson A, Nenclares P, Newbold K, Newland C, Nicol AJ, Nixon IJ, Obholzer R, O'Hara JT, Orr S, Paleri V, Palmer J, Parry RS, Paterson C, Patterson G, Patterson JM, Payne M, Pearson L, Poller DN, Pollock J, Porter SR, Potter M, Prestwich RJD, Price R, Ragbir M, Ranka MS, Robinson M, Roe JWG, Roques T, Rovira A, Sainuddin S, Salmon IJ, Sandison A, Scarsbrook A, Schache AG, Scott A, Sellstrom D, Semple CJ, Shah J, Sharma P, Shaw RJ, Siddiq S, Silva P, Simo R, Singh RP, Smith M, Smith R, Smith TO, Sood S, Stafford FW, Steven N, Stewart K, Stoner L, Sweeney S, Sykes A, Taylor CL, Thavaraj S, Thomson DJ, Thornton J, Tolley NS, Turnbull N, Vaidyanathan S, Vassiliou L, Waas J, Wade-McBane K, Wakefield D, Ward A, Warner L, Watson LJ, Watts H, Wilson C, Winter SC, Wong W, Yip CY, Yip K. J Laryngol Otol. 2024 Apr;138(S1):S1-S224. doi: 10.1017/S0022215123001615. Epub 2024 Mar 14. (PMID: 38482835). No abstract available.

The IARC Perspective on Alcohol Reduction or Cessation and Cancer Risk.Gapstur SM, Bouvard V, Nethan ST, Freudenheim JL, Abnet CC, English DR, Rehm J, Balbo S, Buykx P, Crabb D, Conway DI, Islami F, Lachenmeier DW, McGlynn KA, Salaspuro M, Sawada N, Terry MB, Toporcov T, Lauby-Secretan B. N Engl J Med. 2023 Dec 28;389(26):2486-2494. doi:10.1056/NEJMsr2306723.(PMID: 38157507). No abstract available.

Oral cancers are rising in the UK.Watt RG, Heilmann A, Conway DI. BMJ. 2023 Dec 12;383:2907. doi: 10.1136/bmj.p2907. (PMID: 38086551). No abstract available.  

Diagnostic accuracy of HPV16 early antigen serology for HPV-driven oropharyngeal cancer is independent of age and sex. Kusters JMA, Diergaarde B, Ness A, Schim van der Loeff MF, Heijne JCM, Schroeder L, Hueniken K, McKay JD, Macfarlane GJ, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Polesel J, Agudo A, Alemany L, Ahrens W, Healy CM, Conway DI, Robinson M, Canova C, Holcátová I, Richiardi L, Znaor A, Pring M, Thomas S, Hayes DN, Liu G, Hung RJ, Brennan P, Olshan AF, Virani S, Waterboer T. Int J Cancer. 2024 Jan 15;154(2):389-402. doi: 10.1002/ijc.34710. Epub 2023 Sep 11. (PMID: 37694289) 

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity, Oropharynx, and Larynx: A Scoping Review of Treatment Guidelines Worldwide.Arboleda LPA, de Carvalho GB, Santos-Silva AR, Fernandes GA, Vartanian JG, Conway DI, Virani S, Brennan P, Kowalski LP, Curado MP. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Sep 3;15(17):4405. doi: 10.3390/cancers15174405. (PMID: 37686681) 

Interventions for the treatment of oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers: surgical treatment.Worthington HV, Bulsara VM, Glenny AM, Clarkson JE, Conway DI, Macluskey M. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Aug 31;8(8):CD006205. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006205.pub5. PMID: 37650478 

Inequalities in access to NHS primary care dental services in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aminu AQ, McMahon AD, Clark C, Sherriff A, Buchanan C, Watling C, Mahmoud A, Culshaw S, Mackay W, Gorman M, Braid R, Edwards M, Conway DI. Br Dent J. 2023 May 24:1-6. doi: 10.1038/s41415-023-5856-z. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 37225842) 

A risk prediction model for head and neck cancers incorporating lifestyle factors, HPV serology and genetic markers.Budhathoki S, Diergaarde B, Liu G, Olshan A, Ness A, Waterboer T, Virani S, Basta P, Bender N, Brenner N, Dudding T, Hayes N, Hope A, Huang SH, Hueniken K, Kanterewicz B, McKay JD, Pring M, Thomas S, Wisniewski K, Thomas S, Brhane Y, Agudo A, Alemany L, Lagiou A, Barzan L, Canova C, Conway DI, Healy CM, Holcatova I, Lagiou P, Macfarlane GJ, Macfarlane TV, Polesel J, Richiardi L, Robinson M, Znaor A, Brennan P, Hung RJ. Int J Cancer. 2023 May 15;152(10):2069-2080. doi: 10.1002/ijc.34444. Epub 2023 Feb 1. (PMID: 36694401).

Risk prediction models for head and neck cancer: A rapid review.Smith CDL, McMahon AD, Ross A, Inman GJ, Conway DI. Laryngoscope Investig Otolaryngol. 2022 Nov 28;7(6):1893-1908. doi: 10.1002/lio2.982. eCollection 2022 Dec. (PMID: 36544947)

IARC Perspective on Oral Cancer Prevention. Bouvard V, Nethan ST, Singh D, Warnakulasuriya S, Mehrotra R, Chaturvedi AK, Chen TH, Ayo-Yusuf OA, Gupta PC, Kerr AR, Tilakaratne WM, Anantharaman D, Conway DI, Gillenwater A, Johnson NW, Kowalski LP, Leon ME, Mandrik O, Nagao T, Prasad VM, Ramadas K, Roitberg F, Saintigny P, Sankaranarayanan R, Santos-Silva AR, Sinha DN, Vatanasapt P, Zain RB, Lauby-Secretan B. N Engl J Med. 2022 Nov 24;387(21):1999-2005. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsr2210097. Epub 2022 Oct 18. (PMID: 36378601). No abstract available.  

Head and neck cancer in the UK: what was the stage before COVID-19? UK cancer registries analysis (2011-2018). Creaney G, McMahon AD, Ross AJ, Bhatti LA, Paterson C, Conway DI. Br Dent J. 2022 Nov;233(9):787-793. doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5151-4. Epub 2022 Nov 11.(PMID: 36369569)

Reviewing the epidemiology of head and neck cancer: definitions, trends and risk factors. Gormley M, Creaney G, Schache A, Ingarfield K, Conway DI. Br Dent J. 2022 Nov;233(9):780-786.doi: 10.1038/s41415-022-5166-x. Epub 2022 Nov 11. (PMID: 36369568).

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis in the Piedmont Region, Italy: Interrupted Time-Series Analysis. Popovic M, Fiano V, Moirano G, Chiusa L, Conway DI, Garzino Demo P, Gilardetti M, Iorio GC, Moccia C, Ostellino O, Pecorari G, Ramieri G, Ricardi U, Riva G, Virani S, Richiardi L. Front Public Health. 2022 Feb 21;10:809283. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.809283. eCollection 2022. (PMID: 35265573).

Systematic overview of systematic reviews and clinical guidelines: assessment and prevention of behavioural risk factors associated with oral cancer to inform dental professionals in primary care dental practices. Mathur S, Conway DI, Macpherson LMD, Ross AJ. Evid Based Dent. 2022 Mar 7. doi: 10.1038/s41432-022-0235-1. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 35256757).

Germline determinants of humoral immune response to HPV-16 protect against oropharyngeal cancer. Ferreiro-Iglesias A, McKay JD, Brenner N, Virani S, Lesseur C, Gaborieau V, Ness AR, Hung RJ, Liu G, Diergaarde B, Olshan AF, Hayes N, Weissler MC, Schroeder L, Bender N, Pawlita M, Thomas S, Pring M, Dudding T, Kanterewicz B, Ferris R, Thomas S, Brhane Y, Díez-Obrero V, Milojevic M, Smith-Byrne K, Mariosa D, Johansson MJ, Herrero R, Boccia S, Cadoni G, Lacko M, Holcátová I, Ahrens W, Lagiou P, Lagiou A, Polesel J, Simonato L, Merletti F, Healy CM, Hansen BT, Nygård M, Conway DI, Wright S, Macfarlane TV, Robinson M, Alemany L, Agudo A, Znaor A, Amos CI, Waterboer T, Brennan P. Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 12;12(1):5945. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26151-9. (PMID: 34642315).  

Cancer mortality 1981-2016 and contribution of specific cancers to current socioeconomic inequalities in all cancer mortality: A population-based study. Brown D, Conway DI, McMahon AD, Dundas R, Leyland AH. Cancer Epidemiol. 2021 Oct;74:102010. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2021.102010. Epub 2021 Aug 19. (PMID: 34418667).

Conway, D. I. et al. (2021) Occupational socioeconomic risk associations for head and neck cancer in Europe and South America: individual participant data analysis of pooled case-control studies within the INHANCE consortium. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-214913) (PMID:33622804) (Early Online Publication)

Lee, J. G.L., Cristello, J. V., Buckton, C. H. , Carey, R. N., Trucco, E. M., Schenk, P. M., Ikegwuonu, T., Hilton, S. , Golden, S. D. and Conway, D. I. (2021) Message framing to inform cancer prevention pricing interventions in the UK and USA: a factorial experiment, 2019. BMJ Open, 11(1),e041324.  (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041324)

Ingarfield, K. et al. (2021) Inequality in survival of people with head and neck cancer: Head and Neck 5000 cohort study. Head and Neck, (doi: 10.1002/hed.26589) (Early Online Publication)

Di Credico, G. et al. (2020) Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration. British Journal of Cancer, 123(9), pp. 1456-1463. (doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01031-z) (PMID:32830199)

Kelwaip, R. A., Fose, S., Siddiqui, M. S., Molumi, C. P., Apaio, L. M., Conway, D. I. , Johnson, N. W., Thomas, S. J., Lambert, D. W. and Hunter, K. D. (2020) Oral cancer in Papua New Guinea: looking back and looking forward. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, 130(3), pp. 292-297. (doi: 10.1016/j.oooo.2020.06.010) (PMID:32665206)

Bravi, F. et al. (2021) Lessons learned from the INHANCE consortium: An overview of recent results on head and neck cancer. Oral Diseases, 27(1),pp.73-93              (doi: 10.1111/odi.13502) (PMID:32569410)

Khetan, P. et al. (2019) Occupations and the risk of head and neck cancer: a pooled analysis of the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 61(5), pp. 397-404. (doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000001563) (PMID:31268937) (PMCID:PMC6613803)

Wakeham, K. et al. (2019) A prospective cohort study of human papillomavirus-driven oropharyngeal cancers: implications for prognosis and immunisation. Clinical Oncology, 31(9), e132-e142. (doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2019.05.010) (PMID:31248692)

Ingarfield, K., McMahon, A. D. , Douglas, C. M., Savage, S.-A., Mackenzie, K. and Conway, D. I. (2019) Inequality in the survival of patients with head and neck cancer in Scotland. Frontiers in Oncology, 8, 673.doi: 10.3389/fonc.2018.00673)   (PMID:30723696) (PMCID:PMC6349751)

Ingarfield, K., McMahon, A. D. , Douglas, C. M., Savage, S.-A., Conway, D. I. and MacKenzie, K. (2019) Determinants of long-term survival in a population-based cohort study of patients with head and neck cancer from Scotland. Head and Neck, 41(6), pp. 1908-1917. (doi: 10.1002/hed.25630) (PMID:30620423)

Conway, D.I. , Purkayastha, M. and Chestnutt, I.G. (2018) The changing epidemiology of oral cancer: definitions, trends, and risk factors. British Dental Journal, 225(9), pp. 867-873. (doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.922) (PMID:30412558)

Vaccarella, S. et al. (2018) Reducing social inequalities in cancer: setting priorities for research. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 68(5), pp. 324-326. (doi: 10.3322/caac.21463) (PMID:30152865)

Purkayastha, M., McMahon, A. , Gibson, J. and Conway, D.I. (2018) Is detecting oral cancer in general dental practices a realistic expectation? A population-based study using population linked data in Scotland. British Dental Journal, 225, pp. 241-246. (doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.544) (PMID:30095121)

Abrahão, R. et al. (2018) The influence of smoking, age and stage at diagnosis on the survival after larynx, hypopharynx and oral cavity cancers in Europe: the ARCAGE study. International Journal of Cancer, 143(1), pp. 32-44. (doi: 10.1002/ijc.31294) (PMID:29405297)

Anantharaman, D. et al. (2017) Geographic heterogeneity in the prevalence of human papillomavirus in head and neck cancer. International Journal of Cancer, 140(9), pp. 1968-1975. (doi: 10.1002/ijc.30608) (PMID:28108990)

Conway, D. I. et al. (2016) Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Oral Prevalence in Scotland (HOPSCOTCH): a feasibility study in dental settings. PLoS ONE, 11(11), e0165847. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165847) (PMID:27861508) (PMCID:PMC5115665)

Lesseur, C. et al. (2016) Genome-wide association analyses identify new susceptibility loci for oral cavity and pharyngeal cancer. Nature Genetics, 48(12), pp. 1544-1550. (doi: 10.1038/ng.3685) (PMID:27749845) (PMCID:PMC5131845)

Purkayastha, M., McMahon, A. D. , Gibson, J. and Conway, D. I. (2016) Trends of oral cavity, oropharyngeal and laryngeal cancer incidence in Scotland (1975 - 2012) - a socioeconomic perspective. Oral Oncology, 61, pp. 70-75. (doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2016.08.015)

Arnold, M., Rentería, E., Conway, D. I. , Bray, F., Van Ourti, T. and Soerjomataram, I. (2016) Inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality across medium to highly developed countries in the twenty-first century. Cancer Causes and Control, 27(8), pp. 999-1007. (doi: 10.1007/s10552-016-0777-7) (PMID:27329211)

Anantharaman, D. et al. (2016) Combined effects of smoking and HPV16 in oropharyngeal cancer. International Journal of Epidemiology, 45(3), pp. 752-761. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw069) (PMID:27197530)

Delahaye-Sourdeix, M. et al. (2015) A rare truncating BRCA2 variant and genetic susceptibility to upper aerodigestive tract cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 107(5), djv037. (doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv037) (PMID:25838448) (PMCID:PMC4822523)

Conway, D. I. et al. (2015) Estimating and explaining the effect of education and income on head and neck cancer risk: INHANCE consortium pooled analysis of 31 case-control studies from 27 countries. International Journal of Cancer, 136(5), pp. 1125-1139. (doi: 10.1002/ijc.29063) (PMID:24996155) (PMCID:PMC4531373)

Ahrens, W. et al. (2014) Oral health, dental care and mouthwash associated with upper aerodigestive tract cancer risk in Europe: the ARCAGE study. Oral Oncology, 50(6), pp. 616-625. (doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2014.03.001)

Sharpe, K. H., McMahon, A. D. , Raab, G. M., Brewster, D. H. and Conway, D. I. (2014) Association between socioeconomic factors and cancer risk: a population cohort study in Scotland (1991-2006). PLoS ONE, 9(2), e89513. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089513) (PMID:24586838) (PMCID:PMC3937337)

Vaccarella, S., Lortet-Tieulent, J., Saracci, R., Conway, D. I. , Straif, K. and Wild, C. P. (Eds.) (2019) Reducing Social Inequalities in Cancer: Evidence and Priorities for Research. Series: IARC scientific publication. International Agency for Research on Cancer: Geneva. ISBN 9789283222224