Hazel B Nichols

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Bilateral oophorectomy in relation to risk of postmenopausal breast cancer: confounding by nonmalignant indications for surgery?
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, E6139, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 173:1111-20. 2011
  2. ncbi Body mass index before and after breast cancer diagnosis: associations with all-cause, breast cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1403-9. 2009
  3. ncbi Effects of birth order and maternal age on breast cancer risk: modification by whether women had been breast-fed
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Epidemiology 19:417-23. 2008
  4. ncbi From menarche to menopause: trends among US Women born from 1912 to 1969
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 164:1003-11. 2006
  5. ncbi Change in lifestyle behaviors and medication use after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ
    Brian L Sprague
    Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 124:487-95. 2010
  6. ncbi Cigarette smoking and risk of breast carcinoma in situ
    Amy Trentham-Dietz
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
    Epidemiology 18:629-38. 2007
  7. ncbi Oral contraceptive use and risk of breast carcinoma in situ
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2262-8. 2007
  8. ncbi Postoophorectomy estrogen use and breast cancer risk
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 120:27-36. 2012
  9. ncbi Fertility drug use and mammographic breast density in a mammography screening cohort of premenopausal women
    Brian L Sprague
    Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3128-33. 2008
  10. ncbi Oral contraceptive use, reproductive factors, and colorectal cancer risk: findings from Wisconsin
    Hazel B Nichols
    UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, WARF Building Room 305, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1212-8. 2005

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi Bilateral oophorectomy in relation to risk of postmenopausal breast cancer: confounding by nonmalignant indications for surgery?
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, E6139, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 173:1111-20. 2011
    ..Results indicate that breast cancer risk reductions conferred by bilateral oophorectomy are not strongly confounded by failure to account for nonmalignant indications for surgery...
  2. ncbi Body mass index before and after breast cancer diagnosis: associations with all-cause, breast cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1403-9. 2009
    ..Factors related to improving outcomes in breast cancer survivors are of increasing public health significance. We examined postdiagnosis weight change in relation to mortality risk in a cohort of breast cancer survivors...
  3. ncbi Effects of birth order and maternal age on breast cancer risk: modification by whether women had been breast-fed
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Epidemiology 19:417-23. 2008
    ..Recent studies have also considered potential health effects associated with exposure to environmental contaminants in breastmilk...
  4. ncbi From menarche to menopause: trends among US Women born from 1912 to 1969
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 164:1003-11. 2006
    ..1 years among women born between 1915 and 1919 to 37.7 years among the 1935-1939 cohort (p = 0.0001). These findings have implications for women's lifetime exposure to circulating endogenous hormones...
  5. ncbi Change in lifestyle behaviors and medication use after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ
    Brian L Sprague
    Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 124:487-95. 2010
    ..These findings indicate that women make substantial changes in their behaviors after a DCIS diagnosis. This cohort will be further monitored to evaluate the association between these behaviors and health outcomes following DCIS...
  6. ncbi Cigarette smoking and risk of breast carcinoma in situ
    Amy Trentham-Dietz
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
    Epidemiology 18:629-38. 2007
    ..Although the associations with cigarette smoking have been explored extensively for invasive breast cancer, the relation to in situ cancer has not previously been examined in depth...
  7. ncbi Oral contraceptive use and risk of breast carcinoma in situ
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2262-8. 2007
    ..16; 95% CI, 1.01-1.32 for ever versus never use). Consistent with invasive breast cancer, these results suggest that oral contraceptive use is at most a minor contributor to BCIS risk...
  8. ncbi Postoophorectomy estrogen use and breast cancer risk
    Hazel B Nichols
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Obstet Gynecol 120:27-36. 2012
    ..To estimate whether the protective effect of premenopausal bilateral oophorectomy on breast cancer risk is mitigated by estrogen therapy use after surgery...
  9. ncbi Fertility drug use and mammographic breast density in a mammography screening cohort of premenopausal women
    Brian L Sprague
    Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3128-33. 2008
    ..04). Our results indicate no overall association between fertility drug use and mammographic density, but provide evidence that density may be lower in women more recently dispensed a fertility drug...
  10. ncbi Oral contraceptive use, reproductive factors, and colorectal cancer risk: findings from Wisconsin
    Hazel B Nichols
    UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, WARF Building Room 305, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1212-8. 2005
    ..No significant associations were observed between colorectal cancer risk and age at menarche or age at menopause. These findings suggest differential roles of reproductive factors in colon and rectal cancer etiology...
  11. ncbi What causes cancer? Reports from sixth-grade girls
    Hazel B Nichols
    The University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, USA
    J Cancer Educ 21:142-6. 2006
    ..We evaluated students' perception of cancer causation among sixth-grade girls living in Wisconsin...
  12. ncbi Breast cancer risk factors and second primary malignancies among women with breast cancer
    Amy Trentham-Dietz
    Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 105:195-207. 2007
    ..To examine the association between breast cancer risk factors and second primary cancers (independent diagnoses occurring at least 12 months after the initial breast cancer diagnosis) among breast cancer survivors...
  13. ncbi Differences in breast cancer risk factors by tumor marker subtypes among premenopausal Vietnamese and Chinese women
    Hazel B Nichols
    University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, WI, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:41-7. 2005
    ..Our findings support the hypothesis that some breast cancer risk factors differ by ER and HER-2/neu tumor marker subtypes...
  14. ncbi Correlates of age at menarche among sixth grade students in Wisconsin
    Amy Trentham-Dietz
    University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, USA
    WMJ 104:65-9. 2005
    ..03) and participated in fewer hours of sporting activity (P=0.08) than students who had not yet reached menarche. These preliminary data suggest that further investigation of the determinants of menarche is both feasible and warranted...
  15. ncbi Declining incidence of contralateral breast cancer in the United States from 1975 to 2006
    Hazel B Nichols
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    J Clin Oncol 29:1564-9. 2011
    ..Contralateral breast cancer (CBC) is the most frequent new malignancy among women diagnosed with a first breast cancer. Although temporal trends for first breast cancers have been well studied, trends for CBC are not so well established...