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Poultry and livestock exposure and cancer risk among farmers in the agricultural health studyLaura E Beane Freeman
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:663-70. 2012..The purpose of this study is to evaluate cancer risk associated with raising animals as commodities, which is associated with a variety of exposures, such as infectious agents and endotoxins...- Atrazine and cancer incidence among pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study (1994-2007)Laura E Beane Freeman
Division of Cancer, Epidemiology, and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1253-9. 2011..Atrazine is a triazine herbicide used widely in the United States. Although it is an animal carcinogen, the mechanism in rodents does not appear to operate in humans. Few epidemiologic studies have provided evidence for an association... - Toenail arsenic content and cutaneous melanoma in IowaLaura E Beane Freeman
Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:679-87. 2004..03). The arsenic-melanoma findings in this study are not known to have been previously reported in observational epidemiologic studies involving incident cutaneous melanoma. Therefore, the findings warrant confirmation... - Mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies among workers in formaldehyde industries: the National Cancer Institute CohortLaura E Beane Freeman
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 101:751-61. 2009.... - Test-retest of self-reported exposure to artificial tanning devices, self-tanning creams, and sun sensitivity showed consistencyLaura E Beane Freeman
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, 6120, Executive Boulevard, Suite 511, MSC 7240, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:430-2. 2005..Although the reliability of self-report of many sun exposure factors has been previously described in several studies, self-report of use of artificial tanning devices and self-tanning creams has been less well characterized... - An update of cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health StudyStella Koutros
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health DHHS, 6120 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Occup Environ Med 52:1098-105. 2010..Our objective is to reevaluate cancer incidence among Agricultural Health Study participants... - Genetic variation in base excision repair pathway genes, pesticide exposure, and prostate cancer riskKathryn Hughes Barry
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20892 7240, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1726-32. 2011..Previous research indicates increased prostate cancer risk for pesticide applicators and pesticide manufacturing workers. Although underlying mechanisms are unknown, evidence suggests a role of oxidative DNA damage... - Xenobiotic-metabolizing gene variants, pesticide use, and the risk of prostate cancerStella Koutros
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Pharmacogenet Genomics 21:615-23. 2011..OBECTIVE: We evaluated pesticide-SNP interactions between 45 pesticides and 1913 XME SNPs with respect to prostrate cancer among 776 cases and 1444 controls in the Agricultural Health Study... - Agricultural pesticide use and pancreatic cancer risk in the Agricultural Health Study CohortGabriella Andreotti
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Int J Cancer 124:2495-500. 2009..Organochlorines were not associated with an excess risk of pancreatic cancer in this study. These findings suggest that herbicides, particularly pendimethalin and EPTC, may be associated with pancreatic cancer... - Occupational cancer in developed countriesAaron Blair
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Environ Health 10:S9. 2011..The movement of industry from developed to developing countries underscores the need for future investigations to include more diverse populations... - Estimating water supply arsenic levels in the new England bladder cancer studyJohn R Nuckols
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1279-85. 2011..Accurate retrospective exposure assessment over a long time period is a major challenge in conducting epidemiologic studies of environmental factors and diseases with long latency, such as cancer... - Obesity and thyroid cancer risk among U.S. men and women: a pooled analysis of five prospective studiesCari M Kitahara
Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:464-72. 2011..Thyroid cancer incidence has risen dramatically in the United States since the early 1980s. Although the prevalence of obesity has doubled during this time period, the relationship between obesity and thyroid cancer is uncertain...