S L Glaser

..In light of these reports, we examined recent changes in breast cancer incidence and risk factor prevalence among non-Hispanic white women in the SFBA and other regions of California...

..Few studies have examined the effect of breast implants after mastectomy on long-term survival in breast cancer patients, despite growing public health concern over potential long-term adverse health effects...

..To justify such efforts, it is vital to quantify the potential population-level impacts on breast cancer considering population variations in behavior prevalence, risk estimate, and baseline incidence...

..The data augment biologic evidence that EBV is actively involved in HD pathogenesis in some cases but describe epidemiologic complexity in this process...

..Thus, familial HL reported by HL patients and controls is highly likely to be lymphoma even in extended family members but less likely to be HL per se. Validity may vary with the subject's family size and medical history...

..Null findings for EBV-negative HL indicate that etiologic models should be reconsidered for this common form...

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..Among older women, no significant associations were observed, although hormone use appeared to be protective. These data suggest that steroid hormones may affect HD development...

..Improvement is necessary in these realms to permit cancer surveillance research to realize its potential in resolving the growing cancer burden...

..We investigated the association of HL with lifetime cigarette smoking and household environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in women...

..Further research is warranted, given the potential for an EBV association to inform not only breast cancer etiology but also early detection, treatment, and prevention...

..Because subject participation was 87% for cases but 65% for random digit-dialing (RDD) controls, we examined representativeness of our controls and the impact of detected bias on prior results...

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..Recontact of gender-ineligible households may improve completeness of random digit dialing coverage for female populations...

..We conclude that the EBV EBER-1 transcript is not commonly expressed in breast cancer, based on a broadly representative case series, though we cannot exclude an association of EBV within a particular population subgroup...

..International and inter-ethnic differences, and risk factor patterns in case-control data, implicate environmental influences in the etiology of HD...

..Yet, diagnostic error in cancer registry data used in surveying HD occurrence may produce statistics that misrepresent incidence, mortality, or survival...

..However, survival patterns for EBV-defined HD have not been well studied. To determine if EBV status influenced survival time after HD, the authors investigated a large, population-based series of female patients...

..Many studies have examined racial/ethnic differences in treatment for localized breast carcinoma, but to the authors' knowledge few have included Asian/Pacific Islander (API) women...

..Results suggest that the number of cancer cases reported as Hispanic is an underestimate of the number of cases self-identified as Hispanic, resulting in an underestimate of Hispanic cancer rates...

..Lymphomas are increasingly common cancers in persons with HIV and are fatal in most patients, warranting continued attention to their incidence and etiology...

..None of these patterns was explained entirely by histologic subtype but may reflect age and histology subtype variation in the HD-EBV association...

..Although the completeness and accuracy of birthplace information may vary across registries, this variable appears to be limited for analyses involving Hispanics...

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..This study assessed survival after HL in a population-based cohort large enough to examine the joint effects of EBV with other factors including age, sex, and histologic subtype...

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..We estimated trends in breast cancer incidence rates for specific Asian populations in California to determine if disparities exist by immigrant status and age...

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..We investigated heterogeneity in ethnic composition and immigrant status among US Asians as an explanation for disparities in breast cancer survival...

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..We advocate a concerted effort to systematize collection of these patient data across all facilities, which may be more feasible given electronic medical admissions forms...

..These findings show that in women, body size and strenuous physical activity, both modifiable characteristics, are associated with HL risk in adult life possibly through immunologic, infectious, or genetic mechanisms...

..In this study, liver cancer incidence trends were evaluated in Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese men and women in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area of California between 1990 and 2004...

..We examined agreement between ethnicity in records of a sample of members of five Northern California Kaiser Permanente medical centers with self-reported ethnicity...

..We sought to determine how risk factors for disease vary among Asian subgroups...

..The heterogeneity of cancer outcomes observed within the community classified as Asian reinforces the need for cancer statistics to be reported for disaggregated subgroups...

..Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program show that age-adjusted rates of NHL increased through the 1980s but leveled off in the 1990s...

..A rare occurrence, about 1500 men in the United States develop breast carcinoma each year. Little is known about survival patterns at the population level, particularly about racial/ethnic variation...

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..Close surveillance of Marin County breast cancer trends has nevertheless continued, in part because distinctive breast cancer patterns in well-defined populations may inform understanding of breast cancer etiology...

..To better understand racial/ethnic survival patterns, we investigated the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) and disease stage on racial/ethnic differences in breast carcinoma survival in a large population-based cohort...

..In the US, Koreans are a rapidly growing group and comprised 10.5% of the total Asian population as of 2000. However, little has been published regarding cancer patterns in this subpopulation...

..Thus, overall NHL incidence and survival statistics from the early 1990s are probably accurate, but subtype-specific statistics could be substantially biased, especially because of high (15-20%) proportions of unclassified lymphomas...

..At least in this region, cancer registry data represent a useful resource for monitoring HIV-associated lymphomas and anal cancer and may offer benefits over linkage-based means in the age of HAART...

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..4, 95% CI = 1.9-459.9). These results suggest that cancer registry birthplace data for Asians should not be used if they continue to be differentially incomplete for a large proportion of the subjects...

..Negative findings for previously reported risk factors may reflect their insufficient heterogeneity of exposure or their failure to measure cohort-relevant exposures in this population...

..To examine risk factors for disease-specific survival in young and older adults diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease (HD) in a representative case series of adequate size for detecting effect modification by age group...

..However, for the data to be useful for research and reducing language barriers in medical care, the information must be collected in a consistent and accurate manner...

..The variability in assay interpretation justifies caution in comparing EBV association results across HL studies and underscores the need for interpretation guidelines...

..However, inclusion of subjects at lower socioeconomic status may result in lower reliability for some interview responses...

..The low levels probably confounded our ability to localize the virus to particular cell types or to characterize viral gene expression...

..EBER and LMP1 assays in combination are more effective than either assay alone for identifying EBV-related Hodgkin lymphoma...

..The findings suggest that Q-PCR is an effective method of distinguishing disease-associated virus from incidental virus in paraffin-embedded tissue and in plasma samples...

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