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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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 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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...