Exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners measured shortly after giving birth and subsequent risk of maternal breast cancer before age 50Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, 1683 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 136:267-75. 2012
..It remains unclear whether individual differences in exposure, response to exposure, or both explain risk patterns observed...
- Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure in mothers and time to pregnancy in daughters
Barbara A Cohn
The Center for Research on Women and Children s Health, The Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, United States
Reprod Toxicol 31:290-6. 2011
..This study demonstrates, for the first time, that developmental exposure to PCBs may disrupt pregnancy in humans...
- Developmental and environmental origins of breast cancer: DDT as a case study
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, United States
Reprod Toxicol 31:302-11. 2011
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- Prenatal DDT exposure and testicular cancer: a nested case-control study
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, The Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 65:127-34. 2010
..Whether these associations could be direct, or operate via other pathways is unknown. Further research on interindividual differences in DDT metabolism could provide clues to testicular cancer etiology...
- DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure
Barbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:1406-14. 2007
..Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned...
DDT and DDE exposure in mothers and time to pregnancy in daughtersBarbara A Cohn
Child Health and Development Studies, Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, 1683 Shattuck Avenue, Suite B, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Lancet 361:2205-6. 2003
..The decreased fecundability associated with prenatal p,p'-DDT remains unexplained. We speculate that the antiandrogenic activity of p,p'-DDE may mitigate harmful androgen effects on the ovary during gestation or early life...
- Sex steroid hormones in young manhood and the risk of subsequent prostate cancer: a longitudinal study in African-Americans and Caucasians (United States)
Chiaojung J Tsai
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, Room T204, Stanford, CA 94305-5405, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:1237-44. 2006
..The absence of this association in African-Americans needs confirmation in other data involving larger numbers of African-Americans...
- Prostate specific antigen levels in young adulthood predict prostate cancer risk: results from a cohort of Black and White Americans
Alice S Whittemore
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305 5405, USA
J Urol 174:872-6; discussion 876. 2005
..Little is known about PSA distribution in young adulthood, when benign and malignant prostatic diseases are rare, or about how PSA within the normal range in youth relates to subsequent prostate cancer risk...
- The National DES Education Program: effectiveness of the California Health Provider Intervention
Barbara A Cohn
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
J Cancer Educ 17:40-5. 2002
..The authors report results of an intervention to increase health care providers' awareness of preventive care for women exposed to DES before birth...
- Epidemiologic studies of human semen quality: considerations for study design
Barbara A Cohn
Center for Research on Women s and Children s Health, Child Health and Development Studies, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:664-71. 2002
..Adaptation of the design to anticipate and mitigate bias and to maximize efficiency can yield scientifically sound information. Recommendations for study designs are discussed...
