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Gender is an age-specific effect modifier for papillary cancers of the thyroid glandBriseis A Kilfoy
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20852 7244, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1092-100. 2009..There are few known thyroid cancer risk factors except female gender, and the reasons for the increasing incidence and gender differences are unknown...- Risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and nitrate and nitrite from the diet in Connecticut womenBriseis A Kilfoy
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, EPS, Room 8111, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD, 20852 7244, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:889-96. 2010..We conclude that these results should be replicated in a larger study with data on drinking water as well as dietary sources of nitrate intake... - Polymorphisms in immune function genes and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivalBriseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Cancer Surviv 6:102-14. 2012..Given these biologic properties, there is reason to hypothesize that cytokine activity influences the pathogenesis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)... - Pancreatic cancer and exposure to dietary nitrate and nitrite in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyBriseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20892, USA
Am J Epidemiol 174:305-15. 2011..These results provide modest evidence that processed meat sources of dietary nitrate and nitrite may be associated with pancreatic cancer among men and provide no support for the hypothesis in women... - Thyroid cancer incidence patterns in the United States by histologic type, 1992-2006Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
Thyroid 21:125-34. 2011..In this study, we assessed the incidence patterns by histologic type according to demographic and tumor characteristics to further our understanding of these cancers... - Dietary nitrate and nitrite and the risk of thyroid cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyBriseis A Kilfoy
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20852 7244, USA
Int J Cancer 129:160-72. 2011..74; 95%CI: 0.86-8.77; p-trend = 0.04) among men. Our results support a role of nitrate in thyroid cancer risk and suggest that further studies to investigate these exposures are warranted... - Genetic variation in N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2, cigarette smoking, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaBriseis A Kilfoy
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:127-33. 2010..We conclude that these findings require replication in larger studies and ultimately in pooled analyses... - Diabetes and thyroid cancer risk in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health StudyBriseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20892, USA
Thyroid 21:957-63. 2011.... - Epithelial ovarian cancer and exposure to dietary nitrate and nitrite in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyBriseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, NCI, NIH, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Eur J Cancer Prev 21:65-72. 2012..There were no clear differences in risk by histologic subtype of ovarian cancer. Our findings suggest that a role of dietary nitrate and nitrite in ovarian cancer risk should be followed in other large cohort studies... 
Restriction of human papillomavirus DNA testing in primary cervical screening to women above age 30: systematic reviewMatejka Rebolj
Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Cancer Prev 21:73-81. 2012..Adverse effects were less common among women aged at least 30 years than among younger women. However, in older women HPV testing still led to more CIN1/CIN2 diagnoses and false-positive tests than cytology...- Genetic polymorphisms in nitric oxide synthase genes modify the relationship between vegetable and fruit intake and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaXuesong Han
Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:1429-38. 2009..Our results suggest that genetic polymorphisms in oxidative stress pathway genes, especially in the NOS genes, modify the association between vegetable and fruit intake and risk of NHL... - A birth cohort analysis of the incidence of papillary thyroid cancer in the United States, 1973-2004Cairong Zhu
Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Thyroid 19:1061-6. 2009.... - Genetic polymorphisms in glutathione S-transferases and cytochrome P450s, tobacco smoking, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaBriseis A Kilfoy
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8034, USA
Am J Hematol 84:279-82. 2009..4; 95% CI 1.0-5.7), but a decreased risk for the variant G allele for CYP1B1 (OR = 0.6, 95% CI 0.4-1.0). Our results confer support investigation of the gene-environment interaction in a larger study population of DLBCL... - International patterns and trends in thyroid cancer incidence, 1973-2002Briseis A Kilfoy
Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, LEPH 440, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:525-31. 2009.... - Meat and components of meat and the risk of bladder cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health StudyLeah M Ferrucci
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Cancer 116:4345-53. 2010..The authors comprehensively investigated the association between meat and meat components and bladder cancer... - Nitrate intake and the risk of thyroid cancer and thyroid diseaseMary H Ward
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA
Epidemiology 21:389-95. 2010..Nitrate is a contaminant of drinking water in agricultural areas and is found at high levels in some vegetables. Nitrate competes with uptake of iodide by the thyroid, thus potentially affecting thyroid function... - Family history of malignancies and risk of breast cancer: prospective data from the Shanghai women's health studyBriseis A Kilfoy
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:1139-45. 2008..The link between breast cancer risk and family history of cancers of the lung and esophagus, as well as leukemia, warrants further investigation... - Tobacco control in state comprehensive cancer control plans: opportunities for decreasing tobacco-related diseaseBriseis A Kilfoy
Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A61. 2007....