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France Fung

Neurology Fellow
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[HTML][HTML] Food safety in the 21st century

F Fung, HS Wang, S Menon - Biomedical journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Food is essential to life, hence food safety is a basic human right. Billons of people in the
world are at risk of unsafe food. Many millions become sick while hundreds of thousand die …

Health effects of mycotoxins: a toxicological overview

F Fung, RF Clark - Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Diseases caused by fungi are spread by direct implantation or inhalation of spores. Fungi
can cause adverse human health effects to many organ systems. In addition to infection and …

Health effects of indoor fungal bioaerosol exposure

F Fung, WG Hughson - Applied occupational and environmental …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Occupational and environmental health professionals are confronted with issues concerning
the health effects of indoor fungal bioaerosol exposure. This article reviews current data on …

Global incidence and mortality for prostate cancer: analysis of temporal patterns and trends in 36 countries

MCS Wong, WB Goggins, HHX Wang, FDH Fung… - European urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity
globally, but its specific geographic patterns and temporal trends are under-researched …

Are sleep problems under-recognised in general practice?

…, K Lushington, B Lorenzen, T Ooi, F Fung… - Archives of disease in …, 2004 - adc.bmj.com
Aims: To evaluate the frequency of sleep problems in Australian children aged 4.5–16.5
years, and to determine whether the frequency of sleep problems on questionnaire predicts …

[HTML][HTML] The global epidemiology of bladder cancer: a joinpoint regression analysis of its incidence and mortality trends and projection

MCS Wong, FDH Fung, C Leung, WWL Cheung… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We tested the hypotheses that the global incidence of bladder cancer was increasing but its
mortality was reducing and its incidence was positively correlated with country-specific …

Multipotent stromal cells are activated to reduce apoptosis in part by upregulation and secretion of stanniocalcin-1

GJ Block, S Ohkouchi, F Fung, J Frenkel, C Gregory… - Stem …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Multipotent stromal cells (MSCs) have been shown to reduce apoptosis in injured cells by
secretion of paracrine factors, but these factors were not fully defined. We observed that …

[HTML][HTML] International incidence and mortality trends of liver cancer: a global profile

MCS Wong, JY Jiang, WB Goggins, M Liang, Y Fang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We examined the global incidence and mortality rates of liver cancer, and evaluated the
association between incidence/mortality and socioeconomic development (Human …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in incidence and mortality trends of colorectal cancer worldwide based on sex, age, and anatomic location

MCS Wong, J Huang, V Lok, J Wang, F Fung… - Clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background & Aims We studied incidence and mortality trends of colorectal cancer (CRC) in
39 countries according to age, sex, and anatomic location (colon vs rectum). Methods We …

[PDF][PDF] UKCP18 science overview report

…, K Eagle, T Edwards, G Fosser, F Fung… - Met Office Hadley …, 2018 - researchgate.net
UKCP18 provides a new set of climate projections and tools to access climate data. The
major innovations in UKCP18 include the use of new observations of weather and climate …