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Involvement in decision-making about treatment and ovarian cancer survivor quality of lifeM Robyn Andersen
Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Gynecol Oncol 124:465-70. 2012....
Use of a Symptom Index, CA125, and HE4 to predict ovarian cancerM Robyn Andersen
Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Gynecol Oncol 116:378-83. 2010..Prior studies suggest that combining the Symptom Index (SI) with a serum HE4 test or a CA125 test may improve prediction of ovarian cancer. However, these three tests have not been evaluated in combination...
Assertiveness with physicians: does it predict mammography use?M Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Women Health 39:1-11. 2004..1; CI 1.5, 2.9). If future studies also suggest that assertiveness predicts use of mammography or other preventive healthcare services, it would be valuable to examine the promotion of assertiveness as a means of improving public health...
Examining the cost-effectiveness of cancer screening promotionM Robyn Andersen
Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98102 1024, USA
Cancer 101:1229-38. 2004..The authors showed that CEA can be a valuable tool for understanding the merits of health promotion interventions and that CEA is particularly valuable in identifying screening strategies that might be promoted most cost-effectively...
Worry about ovarian cancer risk and use of screening by high-risk women: how you recruit affects what you findM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Med Genet A 129:130-5. 2004..High-risk women recruited via mass mailing were less likely than those recruited via physicians or affected relatives to report either worry about their risk or use of ovarian cancer screening tests...
Involvement in decision-making and breast cancer survivor quality of lifeM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Health Psychol 28:29-37. 2009..This study examined the long-term effects on women's health related quality of life (HRQOL) of involvement in decision-making about their treatment for breast cancer and about follow-up care after treatment...
Using a population-based cancer registry for recruitment of newly diagnosed patients with ovarian cancerM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 28:17-20. 2005..This information can be used to identify patients eligible for intervention trials...
Assertiveness with physicians is related to women's perceived roles in the medical encounterM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
Women Health 42:15-33. 2005..Data are also presented on the development of a scale designed to assess assertiveness with physicians for use in studies of medical care...
Changes in cancer worry associated with participation in ovarian cancer screeningM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Psychooncology 16:814-20. 2007..Further research will be required to examine the possibility that screening reduces worry when women receive only normal, presumably reassuring, results...
Combining a symptoms index with CA 125 to improve detection of ovarian cancerM Robyn Andersen
Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Cancer 113:484-9. 2008....
Frequent search for sense by long-term breast cancer survivors associated with reduced HRQOLM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Women Health 47:19-37. 2008..01 for all scales). It appears that continued efforts to search for sense in the cancer experience two or more years after cancer diagnosis are associated with PTSS and lower levels of HRQOL in long-term survivors of breast cancer...
Antismoking parenting practices are associated with reduced rates of adolescent smokingM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:348-52. 2004..Although parental smoking is clearly one important influence on children's smoking, it is still unclear what are the many mechanisms by which parents influence their children's smoking. Antismoking actions are one potential mechanism...
Worry about ovarian cancer risk and use of ovarian cancer screening by women at risk for ovarian cancerM R Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Gynecol Oncol 85:3-8. 2002..jama 1995;273(6) 491-7]...
Mothers' attitudes and concerns about their children smoking: do they influence kids?M Robyn Andersen
Division of Public Health Sciences, Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Prev Med 34:198-206. 2002..This study examined the predictive effects of mothers' attitudes about tobacco and concerns about their children smoking...
The use of mammography by survivors of breast cancerM R Andersen
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Am J Public Health 88:1713-5. 1998..Survivors of breast cancer are at high risk for development of a second breast cancer and are thus a group for whom annual mammography screening is recommended. However, survivors' use of mammography rarely has been examined...
The effectiveness of mammography promotion by volunteers in rural communitiesM R Andersen
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Andersen, Yasui, Kuniyuki, Etzioni, Urban, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Am J Prev Med 18:199-207. 2000..Three interventions were tested. One used an individual counseling strategy, one used a community activities strategy, and a third combined the two strategies...
Breast cancer worry and mammography use by women with and without a family history in a population-based sampleM Robyn Andersen
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:314-20. 2003..Severe worry may be a barrier to mammography use for all women not only those with a family history...
Community attitudes and mammography use: does it really matter what other people think?M R Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Women Health 29:83-95. 1999..Community attitudes are associated with mammography use in rural communities. Public health interventions that change community attitudes may have effects that extend beyond the people directly contacted by these interventions...
Analysis of the cost-effectiveness of mammography promotion by volunteers in rural communitiesM Robyn Andersen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Health Educ Behav 29:755-70. 2002..Exploratory analyses suggest that the most cost-effective method of promoting mammography use may vary with the target population...
Parents' and older siblings' smoking during childhood: changing influences on smoking acquisition and escalation over the course of adolescenceJonathan B Bricker
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:915-26. 2007..The results suggest that the influence of parents' smoking on smoking initiation is stable and enduring whereas it increases substantially for smoking escalation occurring over the course of adolescence...
The role of schoolmates' smoking and non-smoking in adolescents' smoking transitions: a longitudinal studyJonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Addiction 102:1665-75. 2007..The first longitudinal investigation of the extent to which same-age and older schoolmates' smoking and non-smoking are associated with adolescents' smoking transitions during three grade intervals...
Changes in the influence of parents' and close friends' smoking on adolescent smoking transitionsJonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Addict Behav 32:740-57. 2007..In conclusion, the influence of close friends' smoking on smoking transitions might be stable during adolescence whereas the influence of parents' smoking on the transition to daily smoking might markedly increase across adolescence...
Influence of ovarian cancer risk status on the diagnostic performance of the serum biomarkers mesothelin, HE4, and CA125Chirag A Shah
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1365-72. 2009..To evaluate the effect of ovarian cancer risk on the performance of the serum biomarkers mesothelin, human epididymis protein 4 (HE4), and CA125...
Psychological and social risk factors in adolescent smoking transitions: a population-based longitudinal studyJonathan B Bricker
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Health Psychol 28:439-47. 2009..This study longitudinally investigated psychological and social risk factors consistent with the Theory of Triadic Influence (TTI) as predictors of adolescent smoking transitions...
Ovarian cancer screeningNicole Urban
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, MP 900, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 17:989-1005, ix. 2003..Large, well-designed randomized controlled trials are under way to gauge the performance of existing screening methods...
Awareness and concern about ovarian cancer among women at risk because of a family history of breast or ovarian cancerM Robyn Andersen
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 189:S42-7. 2003..Almost 75% have not heard much about their risk for ovarian cancer. More than 90% failed to use 1 or another of 2 possible tests used for ovarian cancer screening regularly...
Effects of personal characteristics on serum CA125, mesothelin, and HE4 levels in healthy postmenopausal women at high-risk for ovarian cancerKimberly A Lowe
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2480-7. 2008..To evaluate if serum levels of candidate ovarian cancer biomarkers vary with individual characteristics of healthy women who are likely candidates for an ovarian cancer screening program...
The temporal stability of the Symptom Index among women at high-risk for ovarian cancerKimberly A Lowe
Molecular Diagnostics Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Gynecol Oncol 114:225-30. 2009..To evaluate the temporal stability of self-reported symptoms known to be associated with ovarian cancer...
Development of an ovarian cancer symptom index: possibilities for earlier detectionBarbara A Goff
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98196 6460, USA
Cancer 109:221-7. 2007..Currently, screening for ovarian cancer is not recommended for the general population. Targeting women with specific symptoms for screening has been evaluated only recently, because it was believed that symptoms had limited specificity...
The relationship between perceived risk, affect, and health behaviorsDeborah J Bowen
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, M3 B232, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 28:409-17. 2004..We must look beyond risk perceptions and family history to understand motivations for health behaviors...
Nine-year prospective association between older siblings' smoking and children's daily smokingKumar B Rajan
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Science, MP 603, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
J Adolesc Health 33:25-30. 2003..To explore the hypothesis that older siblings' smoking, after controlling for parents' smoking, influences children's smoking...
Breast cancer risk counseling improves women's functioningDeborah J Bowen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, MP 900, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
Patient Educ Couns 53:79-86. 2004..Cancer worry decreased in both counseling groups by one scale point (P < 0.05). These results indicate that counseling can relieve women's negative reactions to breast cancer risk...
Nine-year prospective relationship between parental smoking cessation and children's daily smokingJonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Addiction 98:585-93. 2003..The first prospective investigation of the extent to which parental smoking cessation predicts their children's daily smoking...
Compliance of average- and intermediate-risk women to semiannual ovarian cancer screeningCharles W Drescher
Swedish Hospital and Medical Center, 1101 Madison Street, Suite 1500, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:600-6. 2004....
Optimism, perceived risk of breast cancer, and cancer worry among a community-based sample of womenBonnie A McGregor
Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Health Psychol 23:339-44. 2004..Multiple regression analyses revealed that perceived risk partially mediated the relationship between optimism and cancer worry...
Costs and cost-effectiveness of a clinical intervention to increase mammography utilization in an inner city public health hospitalBeti Thompson
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, MP 702, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Prev Med 35:87-96. 2002..Studies have demonstrated the cost-effectiveness of screening women for breast cancer; however, the cost-effectiveness of strategies to motivate women to receive breast cancer screening has been less well studied...
Quality of life in long term survivors of colorectal cancerScott D Ramsey
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 97:1228-34. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Those who achieve long term remission from colorectal cancer may experience a relatively high QOL, although physical symptoms such as diarrhea and depressive symptoms remain a problem...
Does parental smoking cessation encourage their young adult children to quit smoking? A prospective studyJonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Addiction 100:379-86. 2005..To investigate the extent to which parental early and late smoking cessation predicts their young adult children's smoking cessation...
Nine-year prediction of adolescent smoking by number of smoking parentsArthur V Peterson
Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, M2 C826 Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Addict Behav 31:788-801. 2006..These results suggest the need for public health interventions that inform parents of young children that their own smoking behavior increases their children's risk for future smoking...
Childhood friends who smoke: do they influence adolescents to make smoking transitions?Jonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Addict Behav 31:889-900. 2006..Results also confirmed the important role of parents' smoking. Targeting both childhood close friends' and parents' smoking would be valuable in prevention research...
Prospective prediction of children's smoking transitions: role of parents' and older siblings' smokingJonathan B Bricker
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Division of Public Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Addiction 101:128-36. 2006..To use a novel social epidemic probability model to investigate longitudinally the extent to which parents' and older siblings' smoking predict children's smoking transitions...
Recruiting patients with breast cancer and their families to behavioral research in the post-HIPAA periodDeborah J Bowen
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 34:1049-54. 2007....
Complementary and alternative medicine provider use and expenditures by cancer treatment phaseWilliam E Lafferty
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357660, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Am J Manag Care 14:326-34. 2008..To assess the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers and the associated expenditures by specific treatment phases among patients with cancer...
Effectiveness of telephone counseling for mammography: results from five randomized trialsAnne M Stoddard
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Prev Med 34:90-9. 2002..The purpose of this report is to compare the effectiveness of a barrier-specific telephone counseling intervention across the five study sites of the Breast Cancer Screening Consortium (BCSC)...
Much ado about mammography variabilityLarry G Kessler
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1346-7. 2002
Research Grants
- The Feasibility of Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer Using Symptom ReportsMarin Andersen; Fiscal Year: 2009..Outcomes of such an approach for women with and without the identified pattern of symptoms will be examined. ..
