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Trends in research on energy balance supported by the National Cancer InstituteRachel Ballard-Barbash
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Prev Med 44:416-23. 2013..From FY2004 to FY2010, NCI's investment in energy balance and related health behavior research showed growth in funding and diversity of mechanisms, topics, and disciplines-growth that reflects new directions in this field...- Physical activity, biomarkers, and disease outcomes in cancer survivors: a systematic reviewRachel Ballard-Barbash
Applied Research Program, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 104:815-40. 2012..We systematically reviewed studies that examined relationships between physical activity and mortality (cancer-specific and all-cause) and/or cancer biomarkers... - Physical activity, weight control, and breast cancer risk and survival: clinical trial rationale and design considerationsRachel Ballard-Barbash
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, EPN 4005, Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 101:630-43. 2009.... - Estrogenic botanical supplements, health-related quality of life, fatigue, and hormone-related symptoms in breast cancer survivors: a HEAL study reportHuiyan Ma
Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
BMC Complement Altern Med 11:109. 2011..It remains unclear whether estrogenic botanical supplement (EBS) use influences breast cancer survivors' health-related outcomes... - Postdiagnosis diet quality, the combination of diet quality and recreational physical activity, and prognosis after early-stage breast cancerStephanie M George
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, Suite 320, MSC 7232, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:589-98. 2011..To investigate, among women with breast cancer, how postdiagnosis diet quality and the combination of diet quality and recreational physical activity are associated with prognosis... - Fatigue, inflammation, and ω-3 and ω-6 fatty acid intake among breast cancer survivorsCatherine M Alfano
Office of Cancer Survivorship, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd, Ste 404, Bethesda, MD 20892 8336, USA
J Clin Oncol 30:1280-7. 2012..This study investigated fatigue, inflammation, and intake of ω-3 and ω-6 PUFAs among breast cancer survivors... 
Structure of dietary measurement error: results of the OPEN biomarker studyVictor Kipnis
Biometry Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7354, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:14-21; discussion 22-6. 2003..Results suggest that the interpretation of findings from FFQ-based epidemiologic studies of diet-disease associations needs to be reevaluated...- Modeling the dissemination of mammography in the United StatesKathleen A Cronin
Statistical Research and Applications Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Applied Research Branch, National Cancer Institute NIH, MSC 8317, Suite 504, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892 7359, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:701-12. 2005..This paper presents a methodology for piecing together disparate data sources to obtain a comprehensive model for the use of mammography screening in the US population for the years 1975-2000... - Beyond recreational physical activity: examining occupational and household activity, transportation activity, and sedentary behavior in relation to postmenopausal breast cancer riskStephanie M George
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2288-95. 2010..We prospectively examined nonrecreational physical activity and sedentary behavior in relation to breast cancer risk among 97 039 postmenopausal women in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study... - Physical activity and head and neck cancer riskMichael F Leitzmann
Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:1391-9. 2008..To investigate the relation of physical activity to head and neck cancer... - What factors are associated with diagnostic follow-up after abnormal mammograms? Findings from a U.S. National SurveyK Robin Yabroff
Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:723-32. 2004.... - Estimates of the number of US women who could benefit from tamoxifen for breast cancer chemopreventionAndrew N Freedman
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:526-32. 2003..67% or higher for breast cancer chemoprevention. However, tamoxifen use has been associated with adverse outcomes, and not all eligible women have a positive benefit/risk ratio... - Adiposity, adult weight change, and postmenopausal breast cancer riskJiyoung Ahn
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, EPS, 6120 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2091-102. 2007..Obesity is a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer, but the role of the timing and amount of adult weight change in breast cancer risk is unclear... 
Population-based estimate of the prevalence of HER-2 positive breast cancer tumors for early stage patients in the USKathleen A Cronin
Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer Invest 28:963-8. 2010..Tumor grade and race were associated with HER-2 for women aged ≥ 50 years after controlling for other variables. HER-2 varies by age and by race and tumor in older women...- Physical activity and esophageal and gastric carcinoma in a large prospective studyMichael F Leitzmann
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 36:112-9. 2009..Few studies have investigated the relationship of physical activity to esophageal and gastric carcinoma according to histology and anatomic site... - Physical activity during adulthood and adolescence in relation to renal cell cancerSteven C Moore
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:149-57. 2008..82 (95% CI: 0.68, 1.00; p(trend) = 0.05) for activity during adolescence. The authors conclude that increased physical activity, including activity during adolescence, is associated with reduced risk of renal cell cancer... - Anthropometric correlates of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) levels by race/ethnicity and genderJessica M Faupel-Badger
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:841-9. 2009..S. population-based study where these associations could also be stratified by race/ethnicity and gender... - Overweight, obesity, and mortality in a large prospective cohort of persons 50 to 71 years oldKenneth F Adams
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
N Engl J Med 355:763-78. 2006..0 or more, is associated with an increased risk of death, but the relation between overweight (a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9) and the risk of death has been questioned... - U.S. primary care physicians' diet-, physical activity-, and weight-related care of adult patientsAshley Wilder Smith
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:33-42. 2011..Overweight and obesity are substantial problems in the U.S., but few national studies exist on primary care physicians' (PCPs') clinical practices regarding overweight and obesity... - Cancer screening practices from National Health Interview Surveys: past, present, and futureRobert A Hiatt
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1837-46. 2002.... - Sleep duration change across breast cancer survivorship: associations with symptoms and health-related quality of lifeCatherine M Alfano
Office of Cancer Survivorship, National Cancer Institute, DCCPS NCI NIH DHHS, Bethesda, MD, 20892 8336, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 130:243-54. 2011..These results point to the need for routine assessment of sleep as part of survivorship care... - Data and trends in cancer screening in the United States: results from the 2005 National Health Interview SurveyJudith Swan
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer 116:4872-81. 2010..We also examine trends from 1992 through 2005 to determine whether differences in screening use are increasing, staying the same, or decreasing... - Body mass index, physical activity, and bladder cancer in a large prospective studyCorinna Koebnick
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1214-21. 2008..358), respectively. In conclusion, these findings provide support for a modest adverse effect of adiposity on risk for bladder cancer. In contrast, our results do not suggest a relation between physical activity and bladder cancer... - Leveraging epidemiology and clinical studies of cancer outcomes: recommendations and opportunities for translational researchJoanne W Elena
Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Branch, DCCPS 6130 Executive Blvd, rm 5136 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 105:85-94. 2013.... - Cancer risk prediction models: a workshop on development, evaluation, and applicationAndrew N Freedman
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:715-23. 2005.... - Active transportation increases adherence to activity recommendationsDavid Berrigan
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Am J Prev Med 31:210-6. 2006..This study explores inclusion of non-leisure-time walking and bicycling (NLTWB) used for transportation on the prevalence of adherence to PA recommendations and the magnitude of apparent disparities in adherence for California adults... - Adjuvant therapy for breast cancer: practice patterns of community physiciansLinda C Harlan
Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:1809-17. 2002..We evaluated the use of adjuvant therapy for breast cancer using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference statements as guideposts for assessing how rapidly community physicians adopt recommended therapies... - Self-reported and objectively measured activity related to biomarkers using NHANESAudie A Atienza
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7335, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 43:815-21. 2011..S. adults... - Religious and spiritual practices and identification among individuals living with cancer and other chronic diseaseAnita H Ambs
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Prevention Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Soc Integr Oncol 5:53-60. 2007..Future research should continue to examine whether and how religious and spiritual practices are used as complementary or alternative medicine, and health care professionals should ask their patients about such use... - Pregnancy hormone concentrations across ethnic groups: implications for later cancer riskNancy Potischman
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 4005 EPN, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1514-20. 2005..These data are consistent with hypotheses that in utero hormonal exposures may explain some of the ethnic group differences in cancer risk... - The association between television watching time and all-cause mortality after breast cancerStephanie M George
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
J Cancer Surviv 7:247-52. 2013..In a multiethnic, prospective cohort of breast cancer survivors, we hypothesized that television watching time would be independently associated with an increased risk of death from any cause... - Race/ethnicity, physical activity, and quality of life in breast cancer survivorsAshley Wilder Smith
Outcomes Research Branch, Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:656-63. 2009.... - Physician use of genetic testing for cancer susceptibility: results of a national surveyLouise Wideroff
National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:295-303. 2003..39; 95% CI, 0.23-0.66%). These findings underscore the importance of establishing effective clinical approaches to test use and promoting physician education to facilitate communication with patients about cancer genetics... - Language use and adherence to multiple cancer preventive health behaviors among HispanicsApril Oh
National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Prevention, Behavioral Researchn Program, Health Promotion Research Branch, Rockville, MD 20852 7335, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:849-59. 2011..Study findings support evidence behaviors occur in combination and contributes to understanding of the role of language use in patterns of behavioral adherence... - Pediatricians' and family physicians' weight-related care of children in the U.STerry T K Huang
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Am J Prev Med 41:24-32. 2011..Few national data exist to assess primary care physicians' (PCPs') clinical practices with regard to childhood obesity... - Physical activity and acculturation among adult Hispanics in the United StatesDavid Berrigan
Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 77:147-57. 2006..In either case, assessing both types of activity is important for monitoring and understanding Hispanic health behaviors and interpreting epidemiological studies that involve physical activity in Hispanics... - Serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin-like growth factor-I binding protein-3: quality control for studies of stored serumDavid Berrigan
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1017-22. 2007..Together, these results highlight the need for care in large studies of putative biomarkers for cancer risk and illustrate some probable sources of heterogeneity in past epidemiologic studies of the IGF axis and cancer... - Physical activity recommendations and decreased risk of mortalityMichael F Leitzmann
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2453-60. 2007..Whether national physical activity recommendations are related to mortality benefit is incompletely understood... - The frequency of ipsilateral second tumors after breast-conserving surgery for DCIS: a population based analysisJoan L Warren
Health Services and Economics Branch Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Cancer 104:1840-8. 2005..This analysis of women treated with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) evaluated the impact of radiation therapy (RT) in patient outcomes... - Are patterns of health behavior associated with cancer screening?Helen I Meissner
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7331, USA
Am J Health Promot 23:168-75. 2009..This study investigates the relationship between patterns of health behaviors and the use of cancer-screening tests while controlling for sociodemographic and health system factors... - Community-based use of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy for early-stage breast cancer: 1987-2000Linda C Harlan
Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:872-7. 2006..We describe trends in the use of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy by nodal and estrogen receptor (ER) status in women with early-stage breast cancer... - Social and physical environments of sports and exercise reported among adults in the American Time Use SurveyGenevieve Fridlund Dunton
Health Promotion Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd EPN 4051C, MSC 7365, Bethesda, MD 20892 7365, USA
Prev Med 47:519-24. 2008..Demographic and temporal patterns in the social and physical environments of sports and exercise in the American Time Use Survey (years 2003-2006) are described... - Is mode of breast cancer detection associated with cancer treatment in the United States?K Robin Yabroff
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer 112:1011-9. 2008..In the current study, the authors explored whether detection by mammography was associated with greater use of guideline-consistent breast cancer treatment among patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer in the United States... - Physical activity in relation to total, advanced, and fatal prostate cancerSteven C Moore
Division of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2458-66. 2008..96; 95% CI, 0.67-1.36; P(trend) = 0.99). Neither vigorous exercise at baseline nor exercise during adolescence was related to risk of total, advanced, or fatal prostate cancer in this large prospective cohort... - Pain in long-term breast cancer survivors: the role of body mass index, physical activity, and sedentary behaviorLaura P Forsythe
Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 137:617-30. 2013..05). Weight gain and lack of physical activity place breast cancer survivors at risk for pain long after treatment ends. Weight control and exercise interventions should be tested for effects on long-term pain in these women... - Dietary supplement use in individuals living with cancer and other chronic conditions: a population-based studyMelissa Farmer Miller
Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd, Ste 404, MSC 8336, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:483-94. 2008..Our objective was to compare supplement use among those with and without cancer and among those with and without other chronic conditions, and to identify correlates of supplement use by cancer status... - Using intake biomarkers to evaluate the extent of dietary misreporting in a large sample of adults: the OPEN studyAmy F Subar
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:1-13. 2003..There was little underreporting of the percentage of energy from protein for men or women. These findings have important implications for nutritional epidemiology and dietary surveillance... - Trends in abnormal cancer screening results in the United States of AmericaK Robin Yabroff
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Med Screen 14:67-72. 2007..Although recent trends in the use of recommended breast and cervical cancer screening have been well documented in the USA, little is known about trends in the prevalence of abnormal screening results... - Quality assurance in follow-up and initial treatment for screening mammography programs in 22 countriesCarrie N Klabunde
National Cancer Institute, Health Services and Economics Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 14:449-61. 2002.... - Reproducibility of physical activity recall over fifteen years: longitudinal evidence from the CARDIA studyAshley Wilder Smith
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
BMC Public Health 13:180. 2013..To examine the benefits of physical activity (PA) on diseases with a long developmental period, it is important to determine reliability of long-term PA recall... - Breast and cervical cancer screening programme implementation in 16 countriesEmily C Dowling
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
J Med Screen 17:139-46. 2010.... - Linking tobacco control policies and practices to early cancer endpoints: surveillance as an agent for changeAnne M Hartman
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch, Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2215-9. 2008.... - Trends in the treatment and survival for local and regional cutaneous melanoma in a US population-based studyLinda C Harlan
Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Melanoma Res 21:547-54. 2011..Survival was associated with tumor thickness. Early detection when the tumor thickness is less may decrease mortality. Future research should especially target decreasing the disparity in survival between men and women... - Prospective study of physical activity and lung cancer by histologic type in current, former, and never smokersMichael F Leitzmann
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 169:542-53. 2009..The inverse findings among former and current smokers in combination with the null results for physical activity among never smokers may point toward residual confounding by cigarette smoking as an explanation for the relations observed... - Colorectal cancer risk prediction tool for white men and women without known susceptibilityAndrew N Freedman
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, EPN 4005 MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Clin Oncol 27:686-93. 2009.... - Cancer pharmacogenomics and pharmacoepidemiology: setting a research agenda to accelerate translationAndrew N Freedman
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7393, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 102:1698-705. 2010.... - Comorbidities, therapy, and newly diagnosed conditions for women with early stage breast cancerLinda C Harlan
Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Blvd, MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Cancer Surviv 3:89-98. 2009..To describe comorbidities in breast cancer patients at diagnosis and examine factors associated with self-reported comorbidities 30 months post-diagnosis... - Bias associated with self-report of prior screening mammographyKathleen A Cronin
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Statistical Research and Applications Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1699-705. 2009..We examine self-report bias in mammography screening rates overall, by age, and by race/ethnicity... - Environmental influences on exercise intensity and duration in a U.S. time use studyGenevieve F Dunton
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Med Sci Sports Exerc 41:1698-705. 2009..The current study investigated whether the intensity and duration of sports and exercise bouts differ across physical and social environments as reported in a nationally representative time use survey of U.S. adults... - Race/ethnic variation in serum levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 in US adultsDavid Berrigan
Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza North MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Growth Horm IGF Res 19:146-55. 2009..This paper reports on race/ethnic variation in serum levels of IGF-I and IGF-BP3 in a nationally representative and ethnically diverse sample of US adults...