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Invited commentary: the etiology of lung cancer in men compared with womenAnthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Am J Epidemiol 177:613-6. 2013....
DNA repair gene variants in relation to overall cancer risk: a population-based studyAnthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Carcinogenesis 34:86-92. 2013..Replication is needed to more definitively determine the scientific and public health significance of this observed association...
A prospective cohort study of bladder cancer risk in relation to active cigarette smoking and household exposure to secondhand cigarette smokeAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:660-6. 2007..9, 95% CL: 0.4, 2.3). This study further solidifies the evidence that active smoking is causally associated with bladder cancer. Additional studies are needed to determine whether passive smoking is a risk factor for bladder cancer...- Lung and bronchus cancer disparities in South Carolina: epidemiology and strategies for preventionAnthony J Alberg
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas St, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J S C Med Assoc 102:183-91. 2006 - Epidemiology of lung cancer: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition)Anthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas St, PO Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Chest 132:29S-55S. 2007..The objective of this study was to summarize the published literature concerning the epidemiology of lung cancer... - Who is at high risk for lung cancer? Population-level and individual-level perspectivesAnthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC 29425, USA
Semin Respir Crit Care Med 29:223-32. 2008..Strategies that effectively prevent youths from starting to smoke and that promote cessation among dependent smokers can transform populations from high risk to low risk... - Cigarette smoking: health effects and control strategiesAnthony J Alberg
Hollings Cancer Center and Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Drugs Today (Barc) 44:895-904. 2008..Successfully combating cigarette smoking requires a broad-based commitment to smoking control from multiple stakeholders, along with a multifaceted strategy that addresses both societal and individual factors... - Cigarette smoking and the risk of dying from tobacco-related malignancies by raceJill N Curran
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Anticancer Res 31:3891-5. 2011.... - Active cigarette smoking, household passive smoke exposure, and the risk of developing pancreatic cancerLisa Gallicchio
Department of Epidemiology, Room E6132, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 42:200-5. 2006..Our results also indicate that household passive smoke exposure is not associated with pancreatic cancer risk, although our risk estimates lacked precision... - Adolescent nondaily smokers: favorable views of tobacco yet receptive to cessationMatthew J Carpenter
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street, PO Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:348-55. 2009..Favorable views of cigarette use may be a potentiating factor that influences the progression of nicotine dependence among adolescents... - The risk of dying from lung cancer by race: a prospective cohort study in a biracial cohort in Charleston, South CarolinaJill M Nonemaker
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:304-10. 2009.... - The influence of offering free transdermal nicotine patches on quit rates in a local health department's smoking cessation programAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Room E6132 B, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Addict Behav 29:1763-78. 2004..The rapid reversion to smoking in the group who received free nicotine patches could potentially be obviated if participants extend their use of nicotine patches after the free 6-week supply is exhausted... - Copy number variants of GSTM1 and GSTT1 in relation to lung cancer risk in a prospective cohort studyTram Kim Lam
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:546-52. 2009..Previous studies did not discriminate wild-type from hemizygous genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1. In this study, we investigated wild-type, hemizygous deletion, and homozygous deletion genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1 and lung cancer risk... - Oral cancer preventive practices of South Carolina dentists and physiciansSusan G Reed
Department of Craniofacial Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, 173 Ashley Avenue, MSC 507, Charleston, SC 29425 5070, USA
J Cancer Educ 25:166-73. 2010..Results support the development of tailored education for SC dentists and physicians to achieve Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives for Oral Cancer... - Opportunities for oral cancer screening among older African-American womenAnn C Klassen
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 37:499-506. 2003..Although older persons in low-income communities often lack regular dental care, little is known about the characteristics of groups at greatest risk for poor screening... - The sociobiologic integrative model (SBIM): enhancing the integration of sociobehavioral, environmental, and biomolecular knowledge in urban health and disparities researchM Chris Gibbons
Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Urban Health 84:198-211. 2007..This paper suggests a sociobiologic organizing model that encourages a multilevel, integrative perspective in the study of urban health and health disparities... - Factors associated with cancer survivors' selection between two group physical activity programsCindy L Carter
Hollings Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
J Cancer Surviv 4:388-98. 2010..To address this knowledge gap, we examined factors associated with selecting between two group physical activity programs... - Motivating the unmotivated for health behavior change: a randomized trial of cessation induction for smokersMatthew J Carpenter
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Hollings Cancer Center, 86 Jonathan Lucas St, PO Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Clin Trials 7:157-66. 2010..Many smokers remain unwilling or unable to make a quit attempt. For these smokers, novel strategies to induce quit attempts are necessary to achieve further reductions in smoking prevalence... - Perceived access to health care and its influence on the prevalence of behavioral risks among urban African AmericansVickie L Shavers
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 94:952-62. 2002..This report examines participant perception of the level of difficulty encountered when obtaining medical care and its influence on the prevalence of chronic disease behavioral risks among urban African Americans... - Fine particulate air pollution in restaurants and bars according to smoking policy in Charleston, South CarolinaCindy L Carter
Hollings Cancer Center, MUSC, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA
J S C Med Assoc 104:82-5. 2008 - The role of area-level influences on prostate cancer grade and stage at diagnosisAnn C Klassen
Department of Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Prev Med 39:441-8. 2004..This research explores area-level social influences on prostate cancer, to test whether area-level influences explain disparities in U.S. prostate cancer burden... - Mitochondrial DNA content increase in response to cigarette smokingBrett G Masayesva
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287-0910, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:19-24. 2006..Smoking is associated with increased mtDNA content in a dose-dependent fashion. Mitochondrial DNA alterations in response to smoking persist for several decades after smoking cessation, consistent with long-term, smoking-related damage... - A prospective cohort study of rectal cancer risk in relation to active cigarette smoking and passive smoke exposureCraig M Hooker
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ann Epidemiol 18:28-35. 2008..The present investigation prospectively examined active cigarette smoking and household passive smoke exposure and the risk of developing rectal cancer... - Perceptions of cancer in an African-American community: a focus group reportSharada Shankar
Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Ethn Dis 12:276-83. 2002.... - Invited commentary: Attendance and absence as markers of health status--the example of active and passive cigarette smokingAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:870-3. 2003 - Increased mitochondrial DNA content in saliva associated with head and neck cancerWei-Wen Jiang
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Cancer Division, Baltimore, MD 21287-0910, USA
Clin Cancer Res 11:2486-91. 2005..mtDNA content alteration is associated with HNSC independently of age and smoking exposure, can be detected in saliva, and may be due to elevation in mtDNA content in primary HNSC... - Nicotine replacement therapy use among a cohort of smokersAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Addict Dis 24:101-13. 2005..Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has been shown to assist smokers to stop smoking in randomized trials, but little is known about its use in the general population... - Active and passive cigarette smoking and the risk of cervical neoplasiaCornelia L Trimble
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:174-81. 2005..The results of this long-term, prospective cohort study corroborate the association between active cigarette smoking and cervical neoplasia and provide evidence that passive smoking is a risk factor for cervical neoplasia... - Epidemiology of lung cancerAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Chest 123:21S-49S. 2003..This favorable trend will not persist unless further reductions in smoking prevalence are achieved... - N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) genotypes, cigarette smoking, and the risk of breast cancerAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Room E6132B, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 28:187-93. 2004..The results for smoking were consistent with an inactivation role for NAT2 in breast cancer... - Nonmelanoma skin cancer and risk for subsequent malignancyJiping Chen
Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:1215-22. 2008..Individuals with a personal history of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) may have an increased risk of subsequent noncutaneous malignancies. To test this hypothesis, we carried out a community-based, prospective cohort study... - Tobacco awareness in three U.S. medical schoolsJoshua G Schkrohowsky
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Addict Dis 26:101-6. 2007..To evaluate the attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs of future physicians regarding smoking cessation and tobacco-related issues and the development of these attributes during the course of medical education... - Cancer of the uterine corpus among Hispanic women living in the United States: patterns of staging, diagnosis, and primary treatmentTeresa P Diaz-Montes
The Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 600 North Wolfe Street, Phipps 281, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Gynecol Oncol 96:753-9. 2005..To evaluate the demographic characteristics, clinico-pathological features, and patterns of care of uterine cancer among Hispanic women living in the United States... - The influence of cigarette smoking on circulating concentrations of antioxidant micronutrientsAnthony Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Room E6132B, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Toxicology 180:121-37. 2002..To the extent that these micronutrients are associated with health and longevity, this evidence documents yet another deleterious consequence of cigarette smoking on human health... - Carotenoids and the risk of developing lung cancer: a systematic reviewLisa Gallicchio
The Prevention and Research Center, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:372-83. 2008..Carotenoids are thought to have anti-cancer properties, but findings from population-based research have been inconsistent... - HDL-cholesterol and incidence of breast cancer in the ARIC cohort studyAnna M Kucharska-Newton
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ann Epidemiol 18:671-7. 2008..S. communities... - Risk of subsequent primary neoplasms developing in lung cancer patients with prior malignanciesMalcolm V Brock
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 127:1119-25. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The risk of developing a subsequent malignancy is very high in lung cancer patients with prior primary malignancies, but it is not markedly different from the risks experienced by patients with no prior malignancies... - Involving stakeholders to optimize a study protocol on secondhand tobacco smoke and chronic rhinosinusitis in adultsLaili Irani
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Rhinol Allergy 24:39-44. 2010.... - The association between skin characteristics and skin cancer prevention behaviorsLee Wheless
Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street, Post Office Box 250955, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2613-9. 2009..Behaviors such as sunscreen use and wearing sun-protective clothing are thought to prevent certain types of skin cancer and precancerous lesions, but few studies have examined differences in these prevention behaviors by skin type... - A comparison of three comorbidity indexes in a head and neck cancer populationBritt C Reid
Department of Oral Health Care Delivery, School of Dentistry, Room 3E 04, University of Maryland, 666 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Oral Oncol 38:187-94. 2002..0001). Although the ATC index appears promising, the HNCA and Charlson indexes had similar adjusted RR's, dose-response patterns, P-values, and chi-square scores and appear particularly well-suited to the measurement of comorbidity... - Missing stage and grade in Maryland prostate cancer surveillance data, 1992-1997Ann C Klassen
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:S77-87. 2006..Two clinical elements often missing in surveillance data are histologic grade and stage of disease. Missing data are either not clinically ascertained or not successfully abstracted... - Adulthood consumption of preserved and nonpreserved vegetables and the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a systematic reviewLisa Gallicchio
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Int J Cancer 119:1125-35. 2006..Further research in high-risk areas to gain insight into the risk associated with preserved vegetables and protection associated with nonpreserved vegetables may advance understanding of NPC and yield clues for prevention... - Epidemiology of lung cancer: looking to the futureAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, 21205, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:3175-85. 2005..Unless further reductions in the prevalence of cigarette smoking are achieved over the next decade, lung cancer will remain as an all too common, but avoidable, disease... - Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors toward skin cancer in Maryland youthsAnthony J Alberg
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:372-7. 2002..To describe the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of 7th-graders in Maryland with respect to sun protection and skin cancer... - Surgical resection of limited disease small cell lung cancer in the new era of platinum chemotherapy: Its time has comeMalcolm V Brock
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkinds Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 129:64-72. 2005..Although resection is not the standard of care in treating small cell lung cancer, new platinum drugs and modern staging have allowed the role of surgery to be reevaluated... - The joint influence of parental modeling and positive parental concern on cigarette smoking in middle and high school studentsBindu Kalesan
Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Room 3B 23, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
J Sch Health 76:402-7; quiz 438-9. 2006..The results indicate that minimal parental concern about smoking worsens the risk due to parental modeling. Parental modeling and parental attitudes act synergistically to exacerbate the likelihood of smoking... - Oral human papillomavirus infection in adults is associated with sexual behavior and HIV serostatusAimee R Kreimer
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Infect Dis 189:686-98. 2004..8; 95% confidence interval, 3.1-52.7) among HIV-seropositive individuals. HPV type 16, which is present in most HPV-associated tonsillar cancers, was the most prevalent high-risk oral HPV infection... - Gender differences in sexual biomarkers and behaviors associated with human papillomavirus-16, -18, and -33 seroprevalenceAimee R Kreimer
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:247-56. 2004..CONCLUSION: HPV seropositivity is associated with sexually transmitted diseases among women and possibly mucosal HPV exposures in men. Tonsillar HPV infection could impact seroprevalence, particularly in men... - Prediagnostic circulating follicle stimulating hormone concentrations and ovarian cancer riskMeghan A McSorley
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Int J Cancer 125:674-9. 2009..These findings contradict the hypothesized role of FSH as a risk factor in ovarian carcinogenesis... - Secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and chronic rhinosinusitis: a population-based case-control studyDouglas D Reh
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins Sinus Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
Am J Rhinol Allergy 23:562-7. 2009..To address this evidence gap, we evaluated the association of SHS and CRS risk in a community-based case-control study of adult nonsmokers... - Pulmonary resection in octogenarians with stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer: a 22-year experienceMalcolm V Brock
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 77:271-7. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The 5-year survival, particularly in patients with stage Ia tumors with favorable ASA and FEV(1), supports the notion that health status and tumor stage outweigh chronologic age in determining surgical candidates... - Serum antibodies to JC virus, BK virus, simian virus 40, and the risk of incident adult astrocytic brain tumorsDana E M Rollison
Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:460-3. 2003..00 for SV40 (95% CI, 0.30-3.32). Given the high prevalence of JCV and BKV infections and the millions who were potentially exposed to SV40 through contaminated polio vaccines, future studies should attempt to replicate these findings... - Prospective study of carotenoids, tocopherols, and retinoid concentrations and the risk of breast cancerReiko Sato
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:451-7. 2002..There was generally a protective association for other micronutrients in both cohorts, although none reached statistical significance. The results suggest that carotenoids may protect against the development of breast cancer... - Prospective study of antioxidant micronutrients in the blood and the risk of developing prostate cancerHan Yao Huang
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205 2223, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:335-44. 2003..Findings do not replicate previous reports of a protective association between lycopene and prostate cancer, but they suggest potential chemopreventive effects of gamma-tocopherol on prostate cancer... - Multivitamin/Mineral supplements and prevention of chronic disease: executive summaryHan-Yao Huang
Department of Epidemiology, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205-2223, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:265S-268S. 2007 - Delayed diagnosis and elevated mortality in an urban population with HIV and lung cancer: implications for patient careMalcolm V Brock
Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:47-55. 2006..Lung cancer is more common in HIV-infected patients than in the general population. We examined how effectively lung cancer was being diagnosed in our HIV-infected patients... - Smoking and risk of fatal prostate cancer in a prospective U.S. studySabine Rohrmann
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Urology 69:721-5. 2007..To examine the association of cigarette smoking with subsequent fatal prostate cancer... - The efficacy and safety of multivitamin and mineral supplement use to prevent cancer and chronic disease in adults: a systematic review for a National Institutes of Health state-of-the-science conferenceHan Yao Huang
Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 2223, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:372-85. 2006..Multivitamin and mineral supplements are the most commonly used dietary supplements in the United States... - Decreased mitochondrial DNA content in posttreatment salivary rinses from head and neck cancer patientsWei-Wen Jiang
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Head and Neck Cancer Division, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287-0910, USA
Clin Cancer Res 12:1564-9. 2006..02) were found in never-smoking patients but not in former or current smokers. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that salivary mtDNA content is decreased in never smokers and in response to radiation therapy after primary surgical resection... - A community-based study of cigarette smoking behavior in relation to variation in three genes involved in dopamine metabolism: Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) and monoamine oxidase-A (MAO-A)Meredith S Shiels
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prev Med 47:116-22. 2008..The association between common polymorphisms of these genes and smoking behavior was assessed among 10,059 Caucasian volunteers in Washington County, MD in 1989... - Alcohol consumption and the risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a systematic reviewLiwei Chen
Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Nutr Cancer 61:1-15. 2009..Considered in total, the quantitative summaries of the case-control evidence suggest that heavy alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of NPC... - Correlates of Human Herpesvirus-8 DNA detection among adults in Italy without Kaposi sarcomaElizabeth E Brown
Viral Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Int J Epidemiol 34:1110-7. 2005..The presence of Human Herpesvirus-8 (HHV8) DNA is predictive of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) among patients with HIV-associated or iatrogenic immunosuppression. However, correlates of HHV8-DNA detection in the general population remain undefined... - Bleomycin-induced chromosome breaks as a risk marker for lung cancer: a case-control study with population and hospital controlsYun-Ling Zheng
Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Carcinogenesis 24:269-74. 2003..18, 95% CI = 1.13, 4.21). Our data indicate that the increased number of bleomycin-induced chromosome breaks was significantly associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in the first 331 subjects... - XPD polymorphism and risk of subsequent cancer in individuals with nonmelanoma skin cancerAbenaa M Brewster
Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1271-5. 2004..To test this hypothesis, a cohort study was conducted to examine the association between XPD Lys751Gln polymorphism and risk of a second primary cancer in individuals with NMSC... - Arsenic in drinking water and lung cancer: a systematic reviewIsmail Celik
Department of Medical Oncology, Hacettepe University Institute of Oncology, Ankara, Turkey
Environ Res 108:48-55. 2008..The lung cancer risk at lower exposure concentrations remains uncertain... - Less efficient g2-m checkpoint is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in African AmericansYun-Ling Zheng
Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA
Cancer Res 65:9566-73. 2005..If replicated, these results may provide clues to the exceedingly high lung cancer incidence experienced by African Americans... - Serum insulin and glucose levels and breast cancer incidence: the atherosclerosis risk in communities studyPamela J Mink
Division of Cancer Prevention and Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:349-52. 2002..39, 95% confidence interval: 0.86, 2.23). Circulating insulin levels were not predictive of future breast cancer incidence, but there may be a weak association with type 2 diabetes, perhaps modulated via increased adiposity... - Arachidonate lipoxygenase (ALOX) and cyclooxygenase (COX) polymorphisms and colon cancer riskJulie E Goodman
Laboratory of Human Carcinogensis, Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Carcinogenesis 25:2467-72. 2004..We have shown for the first time that a haplotype containing ALOX5 G-1752A and G-1699A in a negative regulatory region of the promoter may influence colon cancer risk in Caucasians...
Research Grants
- PREVENTIVE ONCOLOGY ACADEMIC AWARDAnthony Alberg; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- DNA Repair, Skin Cancer and Overall Cancer RiskAnthony Alberg; Fiscal Year: 2009..Translation of the expected results will lead to better identification of at risk populations who should be considered for prevention interventions. ..