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John Carson Allen Jr

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore
Verified email at duke-nus.edu.sg
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Proposed diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis

…, CAW Evans, A Flisser, D Correa, D Botero, JC Allan… - Neurology, 2001 - AAN Enterprises
Neurocysticercosis is the most common helminthic infection of the CNS but its diagnosis
remains difficult. Clinical manifestations are nonspecific, most neuroimaging findings are not …

The causes of deforestation in developing countries

JC Allen, DF Barnes - Annals of the association of American …, 1985 - Wiley Online Library
Allen and Barnes … Allen and Barnes … where the policy emphasis has been on protection
rather than production (Allen 1983). Even where forest management practices are well known, …

The development of the black blow fly, Phormia regina (Meigen)

JH Byrd, JC Allen - Forensic Science International, 2001 - Elsevier
The black blow fly, Phormiaregina (Meigen) is a primary species commonly utilized to
indicate a postmortem interval, or more appropriately a “time since colonization”. Due to the …

Prediction of central nervous system embryonal tumour outcome based on gene expression

…, JYH Kim, LC Goumnerova, PM Black, C Lau, JC Allen… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Embryonal tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) represent a heterogeneous group
of tumours about which little is known biologically, and whose diagnosis, on the basis of …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular classification of ependymal tumors across all CNS compartments, histopathological grades, and age groups

…, M Gilbert, TS Armstrong, N Gupta, JC Allen… - Cancer cell, 2015 - cell.com
Ependymal tumors across age groups are currently classified and graded solely by histopathology.
It is, however, commonly accepted that this classification scheme has limited clinical …

A modified sine wave method for calculating degree days

JC Allen - Environmental Entomology, 1976 - academic.oup.com
A FORTRAN program is described which uses maximum and minimum temperatures to
compute heating and cooling degree days (between and below thresholds, respectively). The …

[PDF][PDF] Metastasis stage, adjuvant treatment, and residual tumor are prognostic factors for medulloblastoma in children: conclusions from the Children's Cancer Group …

…, LB Rorke, JM Milstein, JC Allen… - Journal of Clinical …, 1999 - academia.edu
Purpose: From 1986 to 1992,‘‘eight-drugs-in-oneday’’(8-in-1) chemotherapy both before and
after radiation therapy (XRT)(54 Gy tumor/36 Gy neuraxis) was compared with vincristine, …

[PDF][PDF] Treatment of children with medulloblastomas with reduced-dose craniospinal radiation therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy: A Children's Cancer Group Study

…, HS Nicholson, LG Vezina, JC Allen… - Journal of clinical …, 1999 - researchgate.net
Purpose: Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor of childhood. After
treatment with surgery and radiation therapy, approximately 60% of children with …

A common BIM deletion polymorphism mediates intrinsic resistance and inferior responses to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer

…, Y Fei, S Soh, WH Lee, JWJ Huang, JC Allen Jr… - Nature medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) elicit high response rates among individuals with kinase-driven
malignancies, including chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and epidermal growth factor …

Microvascular invasion is a better predictor of tumor recurrence and overall survival following surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma compared to the Milan …

KC Lim, PKH Chow, JC Allen, GS Chia, M Lim… - Annals of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To compare microvascular invasion (McVI) with parameters defined by the Milan
criteria in predicting tumor recurrence and overall survival (OS) in patients with surgical …