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Increasing evidence for a human breast carcinoma virus with geographic differencesPaul H Levine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Cancer 101:721-6. 2004....
Is testicular cancer related to Gulf War deployment? Evidence from a pilot population-based study of Gulf War era veterans and cancer registriesPaul H Levine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Ross Hall, Suite 118, 2300 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Mil Med 170:149-53. 2005..The increase became apparent 2 to 3 years after the Persian Gulf War and peaked 4 to 5 years afterward. Our data and those of investigators studying Vietnam veterans suggest that testicular cancer may be related to military deployment...
Epidemiology of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)William F Anderson
DHHS NIH NCI DCP, Rockville, MD 20852 7244, USA
Breast Dis 22:9-23. 2005..We also incorporate emerging data from the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program...
A study of Gulf War veterans with a possible deployment-related syndromePaul H Levine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Arch Environ Occup Health 61:271-8. 2006..Many of the neurological symptoms reported by the studied veterans appear to have an organic basis, but comorbidities must be excluded before researchers can conclude that a definitive syndrome exists...
Investigating the risk of cancer in 1990-1991 US Gulf War veterans with the use of state cancer registry dataHeather A Young
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 2300 Eye Street, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Ann Epidemiol 20:265-272.e1. 2010..The purpose of this study was to determine whether proportional cancer incidence is greater among Gulf War veterans compared with non-Gulf War veterans...
Patient navigation significantly reduces delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of ColumbiaHeather J Hoffman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 2100 W Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1655-63. 2012..The George Washington Cancer Institute, a project participant, established District of Columbia (DC)-PNRP to determine PN's ability to reduce breast cancer diagnostic time (number of days from abnormal screening to definitive diagnosis)...
Factor analysis of fatiguing syndrome in Gulf War era veterans: implications for etiology and pathogenesisHeather A Young
School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
J Occup Environ Med 45:1268-73. 2003..Although the factors were similar for both groups, they were more differentiated in the FS group than in the control group as evidenced by interfactor correlations...
Trends in inflammatory breast carcinoma incidence and survival: the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program at the National Cancer InstituteKenneth W Hance
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:966-75. 2005..We examined incidence and survival trends for IBC in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program data with a case definition designed to capture many of its unique clinical and pathologic characteristics...
Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of ColumbiaHeather J Hoffman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, District of Columbia 20037, USA
Cancer 117:3824-32. 2011..The objective of this research was to determine the impact of race/ethnicity and health insurance on diagnostic time, defined as number of days from suspicious finding to diagnostic resolution...
Evaluation of lymphangiogenic factors, vascular endothelial growth factor D and E-cadherin in distinguishing inflammatory from locally advanced breast cancerPaul H Levine
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Clin Breast Cancer 12:232-9. 2012..Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer that on presentation resembles locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). This study identified molecular features of IBC and LABC to investigate pathogenesis...
BP1, a putative signature marker for inflammatory breast cancer and tumor aggressivenessYan Gao Man
Department of Gynecologic and Breast Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and American Registry of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA
Cancer Biomark 5:9-17. 2009..Our findings suggest that BP1 may possess properties of onco-proteins that promote tumor progression, invasion, and metastasis, representing a putative signature marker for IBC and tumor aggressiveness...
The epidemiology of inflammatory breast cancerPaul H Levine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 2300 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Semin Oncol 35:11-6. 2008..The increasing combination of improved epidemiologic and laboratory methods will hopefully accelerate our understanding of this challenging disease...
Evidence for a deployment-related Gulf War syndrome by factor analysisHan K Kang
Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC 20036-3406, USA
Arch Environ Health 57:61-8. 2002..This finding suggests a possible syndrome related to Gulf War deployment, which requires objective supporting clinical evidence...
Early age at first childbirth associated with advanced tumor grade in breast cancerCarmela Veneroso
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2300 Eye Street, N W, Ross Hall 118, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 32:215-23. 2008..This case-case study examined the relationship between risk factors for breast cancer and the histological grade of the tumor at diagnosis, an important indicator of breast cancer aggressiveness...
Histologic grade, stage, and survival in breast carcinoma: comparison of African American and Caucasian womenDonald Earl Henson
Department of Pathology, Office of Cancer Prevention and Control, The George Washington University Cancer Institute, Medical Center, Ross Hall Room 502, 2300 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Cancer 98:908-17. 2003..Aggressive tumor behavior may be responsible, at least in part, for the advanced stage and reduced survival rates...
A cluster of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) in an office setting: additional evidence of the importance of environmental factors in IBC etiologyTina J Duke
Office of Water, U S Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA
Oncol Rep 24:1277-84. 2010..Several promoting factors have been suggested that could result in subclinical breast cancer emerging as IBC. Among them are exogenous hormones and exposure to herbicides/pesticides...
Seroincidence of human T-lymphotropic virus type I infection and characterization of seroconverters in Jamaican food handlersPaul C VanVeldhuisen
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 33:387-92. 2003..Provirus load, titer and appearance of antibody to the Tax regulatory protein were typical of chronic carriers within a few years of seroconversion...
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma and genetic polymorphisms of DNA repair enzymes XRCC1 and hOGG1En Yu Cho
Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10018, Taiwan
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:1100-4. 2003..5-177). Polymorphisms of the DNA repair genes hOGG1 (codon 326) and XRCC1 (codon 280) are associated with an altered risk of NPC. Carriers of multiple putative high-risk genotypes have the highest risk of developing NPC...
Microvessel density, expression of estrogen receptor alpha, MIB-1, p53, and c-erbB-2 in inflammatory breast cancerNicole J McCarthy
Cancer Therapeutics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20889, USA
Clin Cancer Res 8:3857-62. 2002..02; Bonferroni test). CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that there is an increased MVD in breast cancer with the inflammatory phenotype as compared with breast cancer without the inflammatory phenotype...
Association of HLA class I and II alleles and extended haplotypes with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in TaiwanAllan Hildesheim
Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rm 7062, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:1780-9. 2002..We used high-resolution HLA genotyping in a case-control study in Taiwan to systematically evaluate the association between various HLA alleles and NPC...
Early- and late-onset breast cancer types among women in the United States and JapanRayna K Matsuno
Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Room 8105, Rockville, MD 20852 7244, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1437-42. 2007....
