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Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast, a population-based study of epidemiology and pathologyA Kricker
School of Public Health, Level 6, Medical Foundation Building K25, University of Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Br J Cancer 90:1382-5. 2004..Young age, high grade, mixed architecture and multifocality were significant and independent predictors of 2+ cm DCIS...
Reliability and validity of a telephone questionnaire for estimating lifetime personal sun exposure in epidemiologic studiesAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2427-32. 2005..Research is needed into how this might be done to improve sun exposure measurement in women...- Does sunlight have a beneficial influence on certain cancers?Anne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, NSW 2006, Australia
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 92:132-9. 2006..Data on variation in survival from cancer by season of diagnosis suggest that sun exposure may also improve outcome from cancers of the breast, colon and prostate and Hodgkin lymphoma... - Ambient UV, personal sun exposure and risk of multiple primary melanomasAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, NSW, 2006, Australia, and Women s College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Cancer Causes Control 18:295-304. 2007..Sun exposure is the main cause of melanoma in populations of European origin. No previous study has examined the effect of sun exposure on risk of multiple primary melanomas compared with people who have one melanoma... 
Why do large breast cancers still present in a population offered screening?Anne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Int J Cancer 123:2907-14. 2008....- Effects of life event stress and social support on the odds of a >or= 2 cm breast cancerAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building A27, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 20:437-47. 2009..To examine the contribution of life event and social support factors to diagnosis with a >or= 2 cm breast cancer... - Personal sun exposure and risk of non Hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysis from the Interlymph ConsortiumAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Int J Cancer 122:144-54. 2008..Increased recreational sun exposure may protect against NHL... - Surgery and outcomes of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: a population-based study in AustraliaAnne Kricker
School of Public Health, Level 6, Medical Foundation Building K25, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Eur J Cancer 40:2396-402. 2004..Based on cancer registrations alone, 97.7% of women were free of ipsilateral invasive cancer after three years; more women who had mastectomy were cancer-free (100%) than women who had breast-conserving surgery (97.2%; P=0.05)... - Sun exposure may protect against non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case-control studyAnn Maree Hughes
School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
Int J Cancer 112:865-71. 2004..Increasing evidence that vitamin D may protect against cancer makes UV-mediated synthesis of vitamin D a plausible mechanism whereby sun exposure might protect against NHL... - Artificial ultraviolet radiation and ocular melanoma in AustraliaClaire M Vajdic
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Int J Cancer 112:896-900. 2004..There was no evidence that these exposures increased the risk of iris (n = 25) or conjunctival (n = 19) melanomas. Personal exposure to sunlamps and welding predicts risk of choroid and ciliary body melanoma in Australia... - Incidence of ocular melanoma in Australia from 1990 to 1998Claire M Vajdic
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology, Sydney, Australia
Int J Cancer 105:117-22. 2003..The absence of a strong latitude gradient in incidence does not argue against such a role because exposure of the eye to solar UV is probably determined most by the horizon sky, where ambient solar UV is less affected by latitude... - Etiologic and other factors predicting nevus-associated cutaneous malignant melanomaMark P Purdue
Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2015-22. 2005..However, it is possible that high UV exposure causes involution of nevi, thus reducing the density of nevi in exposed skin and thereby the probability of N+ melanoma... - Sun exposure, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms FokI and BsmI and risk of multiple primary melanomaRochelle Mandelcorn-Monson
Division of Dermatology, 1448 Laurence Avenue East, Suite 302, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Cancer Epidemiol 35:e105-10. 2011..Vitamin D effects are mediated through the vitamin D receptor (VDR). We hypothesized that genetic variation in VDR affects the relationship of sun exposure to risk of a further melanoma in people who have already had one... - Sun exposure predicts risk of ocular melanoma in AustraliaClaire M Vajdic
Cancer Research and Registers Division, New South Wales Cancer Council, Sydney, Australia
Int J Cancer 101:175-82. 2002..There was inconclusive evidence for an association between sun exposure and iris (n = 25) or conjunctival (n = 19) melanomas. Sun exposure is an independent risk factor for choroidal and ciliary body melanoma in Australia... - MC1R genotype may modify the effect of sun exposure on melanoma risk in the GEM studyAnne Kricker
Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 21:2137-47. 2010.... - Birth order, atopy, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaAndrew Edwin Grulich
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:587-94. 2005..Because late birth order and childhood crowding are inversely associated with atopy, we also investigated their associations with NHL risk... - Pigmentary characteristics, sun sensitivity and non-Hodgkin lymphomaAnn Maree Hughes
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Int J Cancer 110:429-34. 2004..5- to 2-fold increases in risk but with wide confidence intervals. These results provide weak support for the possibility that sun sensitivity or perhaps sun exposure increases risk of NHL... - Clinicopathologic features of incident and subsequent tumors in patients with multiple primary cutaneous melanomasRajmohan Murali
Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Ann Surg Oncol 19:1024-33. 2012.... - Bodyweight and other correlates of symptom-detected breast cancers in a population offered screeningAnne Kricker
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, QEII Building D02, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 23:89-102. 2012..To determine the factors associated with symptom-detected breast cancers in a population offered screening... - WHO non-Hodgkin's lymphoma classification by criterion-based report review followed by targeted pathology review: an effective strategy for epidemiology studiesJennifer J Turner
Department of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent s Hospital, Level 6, Xavier Building, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2213-9. 2005.... - Sun exposure and non-Hodgkin lymphomaBruce K Armstrong
Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown 2050, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:396-400. 2007..Results of additional studies in individuals and a planned original-data meta-analysis of case-control studies should help to resolve the present conflicting results on sun exposure and NHL... - Chromosomal gains and losses in ocular melanoma detected by comparative genomic hybridization in an Australian population-based studyClaire M Vajdic
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
Cancer Genet Cytogenet 144:12-7. 2003..Sublocalization of these chromosomal changes to single-band resolution should accelerate the identification of genes involved in the genesis of ocular melanoma... - Sun exposure may increase risk of prostate cancer in the high UV environment of New South Wales, Australia: a case-control studyVisalini Nair-Shalliker
Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Int J Cancer 131:E726-32. 2012..Further studies are needed to test the hypothesis that high solar UV exposure is a risk factor for prostate cancer and to explore possible mechanisms for such an association... - Etiologic factors associated with p53 immunostaining in cutaneousmalignant melanomaMark P Purdue
Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Int J Cancer 117:486-93. 2005.... - The prevalence of CDKN2A germ-line mutations and relative risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma: an international population-based studyMarianne Berwick
University of New Mexico, Department of Internal Medicine, New Mexico Cancer Research Facility, MSC08 4630, Room 103A, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1520-5. 2006..The results suggest that the relative risk of mutation carriers in the population may be lower than currently believed and that different mutations on the CDKN2A gene may confer substantially different risks of melanoma... - A design for cancer case-control studies using only incident cases: experience with the GEM study of melanomaColin B Begg
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:756-64. 2006..The use of a novel case-control design in which cases have second primaries and controls are cancer survivors has been proposed for this purpose... - One-carbon metabolism gene polymorphisms and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in AustraliaKyoung Mu Lee
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 6120 Executive Blvd EPS 8118, Bethesda, MD 20892 7240, USA
Hum Genet 122:525-33. 2007..01). In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that genetic polymorphisms of one-carbon metabolism genes such as MTHFR and TYMS may influence susceptibility to NHL... - Exposure to ultraviolet radiation and risk of malignant lymphoma and multiple myeloma--a multicentre European case-control studyPaolo Boffetta
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Int J Epidemiol 37:1080-94. 2008..Three recent studies have reported a decreased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) for high ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure... - Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of multiple primary melanoma: the Genes Environment and Melanoma StudyRobert C Millikan
Department of Epidemiology, CB 7435, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Carcinogenesis 27:610-8. 2006..ORs for XPD and XPC genotypes were stronger for melanoma diagnosed at an early age, but tests for interaction were not statistically significant. The results provide further evidence for a role of XPD in the etiology of melanoma... - Specific infections, infection-related behavior, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adultsClaire M Vajdic
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Level 2 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales 2010, Australia
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1102-8. 2006..This study provides consistent evidence that sexually transmitted infections and zoonoses are not risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma... - Ocular melanoma and cutaneous melanomaAnne Kricker
Int J Cancer 104:259. 2003 - Lifetime risk of melanoma in CDKN2A mutation carriers in a population-based sampleColin B Begg
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1507-15. 2005..In this study, we examined lifetime melanoma risk among CDKN2A mutation carriers using carriers who were identified in a population-based study of melanoma... - Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in New South Wales, AustraliaMin Shen
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892 7240, USA
Haematologica 92:1180-5. 2007..We investigated whether putatively functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in DNA repair genes influence susceptibility to NHL in a population-based case-control study conducted in Australia... - Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphomaMark P Purdue
Haematologica 92:1145-6. 2007..The BsmI B and TaqI t alleles were associated with an increased risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. These findings suggest that variants in VDR may influence lymphomagenesis... - Polymorphisms in immune function genes and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: findings from the New South Wales non-Hodgkin Lymphoma StudyMark P Purdue
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892 7240, USA
Carcinogenesis 28:704-12. 2007..06, 95% CI=0.88-4.83; trend test, P=0.02). Our findings offer further evidence that variation in the IL10 and TNF loci influences NHL risk. Additional studies are needed to clarify the genetic and biologic basis for these relationships... - Familial aggregation of melanoma risks in a large population-based sample of melanoma casesColin B Begg
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
Cancer Causes Control 15:957-65. 2004..In this study we use information from a large series of incident cases of melanoma from an international population-based study to examine the patterns of incidence of melanoma in the first-degree relatives of these cases... - Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma associated with occupational exposure to solvents, metals, organic dusts and PCBs (Australia)Lin Fritschi
School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Cancer Causes Control 16:599-607. 2005..We aimed to use accurate means to assess occupational exposures to solvents, metals, organic dusts and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a case-control study... - Atopy, exposure to pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaClaire M Vajdic
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, 2376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
Int J Cancer 120:2271-4. 2007..Although this study had limited power, the findings do not suggest modification of the association between pesticide exposure and NHL risk by asthma or atopic disease more generally... - Occupational exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaKen K Karipidis
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 80:663-70. 2007.... - Sun exposure and mortality from melanomaMarianne Berwick
University of New Mexico, Department of Internal Medicine, New Mexico Cancer Research Facility, MSC08 4630, Room 103A, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:195-9. 2005..We therefore evaluated the association between measures of skin screening and death from cutaneous melanoma... - Latitude and incidence of ocular melanomaClaire M Vajdic
Photochem Photobiol 83:985. 2007 - Re: Atopy and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaAndrew Edwin Grulich
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1417. 2007 - BRCA2 mutations in a population-based series of patients with ocular melanomaRodney J Scott
Discipline of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Int J Cancer 102:188-91. 2002..This figure was similar to previous estimates of 2.8% and 2% in nonrepresentative samples of patients with ocular melanoma and 2.1% in a representative sample of young women with breast cancer... - Population-based study of natural variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene and melanomaPeter A Kanetsky
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
Cancer Res 66:9330-7. 2006.... - CDKN2A germline mutations in individuals with cutaneous malignant melanomaIrene Orlow
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
J Invest Dermatol 127:1234-43. 2007..With the exception of the variant in position -34 of CDKN2A of known functional consequence, the remaining rare variants in the non-coding region have no apparent impact on risk...