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| P K VerkasaloSummaryAffiliation: National Public Health Institute Country: Finland Publications
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Sleep duration and breast cancer: a prospective cohort studyPia K Verkasalo
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio
Cancer Res 65:9595-600. 2005..10 (CI, 0.59-2.05), 1.0, and 0.28 (CI, 0.09-0.88), with a decreasing trend (P = 0.03). This study provides some support for a decreased risk of breast cancer in long sleepers...
Cancer risk near a polluted river in FinlandPia K Verkasalo
Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health Perspect 112:1026-31. 2004..0 km from the river. Despite the limitations of exposure assessment, we cannot exclude the possibility that residence near the river may have contributed to a small increase in cancer risk, especially among farmers...- Soy milk intake and plasma sex hormones: a cross-sectional study in pre- and postmenopausal women (EPIC-Oxford)P K Verkasalo
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK
Nutr Cancer 40:79-86. 2001..We conclude that soy milk intake does not change plasma concentrations of sex hormones in pre- or postmenopausal British women who consume soy milk as a part of their regular diet... - Circulating levels of sex hormones and their relation to risk factors for breast cancer: a cross-sectional study in 1092 pre- and postmenopausal women (United Kingdom)P K Verkasalo
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Cancer Causes Control 12:47-59. 2001..To investigate the relationships between plasma concentrations of sex hormones and risk factors for breast cancer... - Soya intake and plasma concentrations of daidzein and genistein: validity of dietary assessment among eighty British women (Oxford arm of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition)P K Verkasalo
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Nutr 86:415-21. 2001.... - Energy balance and cancer: the role of sex hormonesT J Key
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 60:81-9. 2001..In men, increasing BMI has little effect on bioavailable androgen levels, and any effect of obesity on prostate cancer risk is small... - Validation study of soya intake and plasma isoflavone levels among British womenP K Verkasalo
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, University of Oxford, UK
IARC Sci Publ 156:135-6. 2002 
Dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, methyl mercury and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as biomarkers of fish consumptionA W Turunen
Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland
Eur J Clin Nutr 64:313-23. 2010..To assess biomarkers and frequency questions as measures of fish consumption...- Breast cancer risk in male twins: joint analyses of four twin cohorts in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United StatesD C Whiteman
ICRF General Practice Research Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Cancer 83:1231-3. 2000..16 expected based on national rates (standardized rate ratio 0.68, 95% confidence interval 0.34-1.22) and conclude that any adverse influence of in utero oestrogen exposure is likely to be small... - Epidemiology of breast cancerT J Key
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Lancet Oncol 2:133-40. 2001..Alcohol increases risk, whereas physical activity is probably protective. Mutations in certain genes greatly increase breast-cancer risk, but these account for a minority of cases... - Mortality in a cohort with high fish consumptionAnu W Turunen
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, Kuopio, Finland
Int J Epidemiol 37:1008-17. 2008..Our aim was to assess the mortality of fishermen and fishermen's wives in Finland, presuming that the mortality reflects their high consumption of contaminated fish... - Blood levels of organotin compounds and their relation to fish consumption in FinlandPanu Rantakokko
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Health, P O Box 95, FIN 70701 Kuopio, Finland
Sci Total Environ 399:90-5. 2008..72-3.14). To the best of our knowledge, this study confirmed for the first time with human samples that fish consumption can be associated with triphenyltin concentration in whole blood... - Co-twin control and cohort analyses of body mass index and height in relation to breast, prostate, ovarian, corpus uteri, colon and rectal cancer among Swedish and Finnish twinsEllen Lundqvist
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Cancer 121:810-8. 2007.... - Stressful life events and risk of breast cancer in 10,808 women: a cohort studyKirsi Lillberg
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Am J Epidemiol 157:415-23. 2003..36, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.86) were all associated with increased risk of breast cancer. The findings suggest a role for life events in breast cancer etiology through hormonal or other mechanisms... - A prospective study of life satisfaction, neuroticism and breast cancer risk (Finland)Kirsi Lillberg
Department of Public Health, University of Turku, Finland
Cancer Causes Control 13:191-8. 2002..To prospectively investigate whether life satisfaction and neuroticism, two measures reflecting aspects of anxiety/depression, are related to risk of breast cancer... - Good outcome of teenage pregnancies in high-quality maternity careKaisa Raatikainen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
Eur J Public Health 16:157-61. 2006.... - No association of polymorphisms in CYP17, CYP19, and HSD17-B1 with plasma estradiol concentrations in 1,090 British womenRuth C Travis
Cancer Research UK Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HE, United Kingdom
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2282-4. 2004 - Does incidence of breast cancer and prostate cancer decrease with increasing degree of visual impairmentEero Pukkala
Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Liisankatu 21B, Helsinki, FIN 00170, Finland
Cancer Causes Control 17:573-6. 2006..The major hypotheses are that melatonin may decrease risk of hormone-related cancers, particularly breast cancer, or even act as a potent antioxidant and thus have a protective effect against cancer development in general... - Improving the efficiency of nested case-control studies of interaction by selecting controls using counter matching on exposureJohn B Cologne
Departments of Radiobiology Molecular Epidemiology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
Int J Epidemiol 33:485-92. 2004.... - Personality characteristics and the risk of breast cancer: a prospective cohort studyKirsi Lillberg
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Int J Cancer 100:361-6. 2002..In conclusion, our data do not support the existence of an important role for personality in the aetiology of breast cancer. These findings are reassuring to those who have believed the contrary... - Risk factors for breast cancer at young ages in twins: an international population-based studyAnthony J Swerdlow
Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1238-46. 2002..Comparison of risk factor levels between affected probands and unaffected twins in twin pairs can provide a unique method to investigate risk factors that act in early life...