Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women following the cessation of hormone therapy use: the California Teachers StudyPamela L Horn-Ross
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:2006-13. 2012
..Because many women stopped taking HT after mid-2002, it is important to quantify risks associated with alcohol consumption in the context of HT cessation, as these risks may be more relevant to cancer prevention efforts today...
Hormonal factors and the risk of papillary thyroid cancer in the California Teachers Study cohortPamela L Horn-Ross
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1751-9. 2011
..The strikingly higher rates in young women, compared with men, suggest that sex steroid hormones may be involved in the development of this disease...
- Nativity and papillary thyroid cancer incidence rates among Hispanic women in California
Pamela L Horn-Ross
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, California 94538, USA
Cancer 118:216-22. 2012
..However, little is known as to whether rates in Hispanic women vary by nativity, which may influence exposure to important risk factors...
- Papillary thyroid cancer incidence rates vary significantly by birthplace in Asian American women
Pamela L Horn-Ross
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:479-85. 2011
..To investigate how birthplace influences the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer among Asian American women...
- Pregnancy-related factors and the risk of breast carcinoma in situ and invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal women in the California Teachers Study cohort
Huiyan Ma
Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
Breast Cancer Res 12:R35. 2010
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- Wine and other alcohol consumption and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort
Ellen T Chang
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:91-103. 2007
..Whether alcohol consumption influences ovarian cancer risk is unclear. Therefore, we investigated the association between alcohol intake at various ages and risk of ovarian cancer...
- Body size and the risk of endometrial cancer by hormone therapy use in postmenopausal women in the California Teachers Study cohort
Alison J Canchola
Cancer Prevention Institute of California formerly the Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1407-16. 2010
..To investigate whether hormone therapy (HT) and obesity are associated with endometrial cancer risk among postmenopausal women in the California Teachers Study cohort...
- Dietary patterns and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort
Ellen T Chang
Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, California 94538, USA
Nutr Cancer 60:285-91. 2008
..Overall, our results show no convincing associations between dietary patterns and ovarian cancer risk...
- Dietary phytocompounds and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study cohort
Ellen T Chang
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:237-49. 2011
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- Alcohol consumption over time and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study cohort
Ellen T Chang
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1373-83. 2010
..The higher risk among former drinkers emphasizes the importance of classifying both current and past alcohol consumption and suggests that factors related to quitting drinking, rather than alcohol itself, may increase B-cell NHL risk...
- Adulthood residential ultraviolet radiation, sun sensitivity, dietary vitamin D, and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study
Ellen T Chang
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA, USA
Blood 118:1591-9. 2011
..Dietary vitamin D also was not associated with risk of lymphoid malignancies. These results support a protective effect of routine residential UVR exposure against lymphomagenesis through mechanisms possibly independent of vitamin D...
- Body size and the risk of ovarian cancer by hormone therapy use in the California Teachers Study cohort
Alison J Canchola
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:2241-8. 2010
..To investigate whether obesity and hormone therapy (HT) are associated with ovarian cancer risk among women in the California Teachers Study cohort...
- Recent changes in breast cancer incidence and risk factor prevalence in San Francisco Bay area and California women: 1988 to 2004
Theresa H M Keegan
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Breast Cancer Res 9:R62. 2007
..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...
- Hidden breast cancer disparities in Asian women: disaggregating incidence rates by ethnicity and migrant status
Scarlett Lin Gomez
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S125-31. 2010
..We estimated trends in breast cancer incidence rates for specific Asian populations in California to determine if disparities exist by immigrant status and age...
- Diet and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort
Ellen T Chang
Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:802-13. 2007
..Although dietary consumption of isoflavones may be associated with decreased ovarian cancer risk, most dietary factors are unlikely to play a major role in ovarian cancer development...
Risk of second primary malignancies in women with papillary thyroid cancerAlison J Canchola
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:521-7. 2006
..3), and melanoma (SIR = 2.1, 95% CI: 1.3, 3.2) limited to the first 5 years after diagnosis was observed. Women with papillary thyroid cancer are at increased risk of in situ, but not invasive, breast cancer, kidney cancer, and melanoma...
- Early-life factors and breast cancer risk in Hispanic women: the role of adolescent body size
Meera Sangaramoorthy
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:2572-82. 2011
..Adult body size has long been known to influence breast cancer risk, and there is now increasing evidence that childhood and adolescent body size may also play a role...
- Reliability and validity of an assessment of usual phytoestrogen consumption (United States)
Pamela L Horn-Ross
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:85-93. 2006
..To evaluate the reliability and validity of a food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and database designed to quantify phytoestrogen consumption...
- Adult body size, hormone receptor status, and premenopausal breast cancer risk in a multiethnic population: the San Francisco Bay Area breast cancer study
Esther M John
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, 94538, USA
Am J Epidemiol 173:201-16. 2011
..Despite racial/ethnic differences in body size, inverse associations were similar across the 3 racial/ethnic groups when stratified by hormone receptor status...
- Second primary breast cancer occurrence according to hormone receptor status
Allison W Kurian
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Ave, Fremont, CA 94538 2334, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 101:1058-65. 2009
..Little is known about differences in risk for second primary breast cancers related to the estrogen and progesterone receptor (hormone receptor [HR]) status of the first tumor...
- Long-term postmenopausal hormone therapy and endometrial cancer
Pedram Razavi
University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:475-83. 2010
..These findings confirm that long-term use of ET, sequential EPT, or, among normal weight women, continuous-combined EPT is associated with increased risk of endometrial cancer...
- Dietary assessment in the California Teachers Study: reproducibility and validity
Pamela L Horn-Ross
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:595-603. 2008
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- Adenomyosis and endometriosis in the California Teachers Study
Claire Templeman
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
Fertil Steril 90:415-24. 2008
..To evaluate the reproductive and lifestyle correlates of a surgically confirmed diagnosis of endometriosis or adenomyosis in a large prospective cohort...
- Lifetime physical activity and risk of endometrial cancer
Esther M John
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Suite 300, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1276-83. 2010
..The role of moderate physical activity and life patterns of activity in reducing endometrial cancer risk remains uncertain...
- Recent trends and racial/ethnic differences in the incidence and treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast in California women
Kaire Innos
Northern California Cancer Center, Union City, California, USA
Cancer 97:1099-106. 2003
..The current investigation examined recent trends and racial/ethnic differences in the incidence and treatment of DCIS in California...
- Two estrogen-related variants in CYP19A1 and endometrial cancer risk: a pooled analysis in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium
Veronica Wendy Setiawan
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:242-7. 2009
..Our study provides evidence that CYP19A1 genetic variation influences susceptibility to endometrial cancer, particularly among older and obese women...
- Dietary patterns, Mediterranean diet, and endometrial cancer risk
Tapashi B Dalvi
Northern California Cancer Center, 2201 Walnut Avenue, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:957-66. 2007
..Thus, while like others we found that dietary fat increases endometrial cancer risk, the evaluation of dietary patterns did not provide any additional information regarding risk...
