Catherine M Olsen

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..Approval to access QSkin data can be obtained on application to the study investigators and submission of a formal research plan that has previous approval from the human research ethics committee of the applicant's institution...

..The present study suggests that these cancers may be largely prevented by maintaining healthy body mass index, avoiding smoking, and controlling symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux...

..Solar keratoses strongly increased the risk of head and neck melanoma (pOR 4.91, 95%CI 2.10-11.46), but data were insufficient to assess risk for other sites. Reported sunburn is strongly associated with melanoma on all major body sites...

..18 vs. 0.13). The PAF of melanoma associated with red hair colour was 0.10. These estimates of melanoma burden attributable to pigmentary characteristics provide a basis for designing prevention strategies for melanoma...

..This work is the necessary first step in designing targeted preventive strategies for melanoma, which must now be overlaid with information about cost and utility...

..040 for all regions combined). Our findings suggest that only a small percentage of melanoma cases (always <7%) are attributable to familial risk; the majority of melanomas are presumably attributable to other factors...

..This finding supports different etiologic pathways of melanoma development by anatomic site...

..7; 95% CI 1.1-12.0); however, use of the androgenic medication Danazol did not increase risk (OR 1.0; 95% CI 0.4-2.9). Overall, our results do not support the hypothesis that androgen-related disorders increase the risk of ovarian cancer...

..These results add to the current evidence that obesity increases a woman's risk of developing distinct histological subtypes of ovarian cancer...

..There was no evidence that the association varied for the different histological subtypes of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer should be added to the list of cancers likely to be related to obesity...

..In aggregate, data from these studies suggest that greater height and weight gain may be risk factors for cutaneous melanoma in women...

..Thus, pooled results from observational studies suggest that a modest inverse association exists between level of recreational physical activity and the risk of ovarian cancer...

..Endometrioid and clear cell ovarian cancers have some shared as well as some distinct risk factors, and therefore should be considered separately in studies of ovarian cancer...

..To examine the test-retest reliability and validity of self-reported items capturing phenotypic characteristics and sun exposure measures in the baseline survey instrument used for a prospective study of skin cancer and melanoma...

..22, 95% CI: 0.74, 2.02). The results suggest that pregnancies associated with differing hormonal milieux have different effects on ovarian cancer risk and that some of these associations may vary with histologic subtype...

..Although the growth inhibitory effects of tea, particularly green tea, and tea polyphenols have been demonstrated in animal models of ovarian cancer, the results of epidemiological studies have been inconclusive...

..To document levels of and changes in physical activity before and after ovarian cancer diagnosis and explore associations with psychosocial outcomes...

..Despite numerous case reports, epidemiologic evidence regarding true rate of skin cancer in scars of any etiology is sparse...

..We therefore aimed to prospectively examine the role of tobacco smoking in the development of SCC of the skin in a population-based study...

..More compatible and comparable research would allow for more powerful data that could be clinically applied to predict melanoma risk...

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