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Prior history of allergies and pancreatic cancer in the San Francisco Bay areaElizabeth A Holly
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:432-41. 2003..0006) and severity of allergic symptoms (p = 0.003). These results provide support for the plausibility that immune function in relation to allergies may play a role in the etiology of pancreatic cancer...
Sweets, sweetened beverages, and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population-based case-control studyJune M Chan
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:835-46. 2009..We examined the associations between sweets, sweetened and unsweetened beverages, and sugars and pancreatic cancer risk...- Tobacco use and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: results from a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaPaige M Bracci
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-1228, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:333-46. 2005..Further analyses are warranted in larger studies to evaluate non-cigarette tobacco use, tobacco-related biologic markers and genetic factors in the development of NHL... - A functional TNFRSF5 gene variant is associated with risk of lymphomaChristine F Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Blood 111:4348-54. 2008..These results suggest that the TNFRSF5 -1C>T polymorphism may increase FL susceptibility through mechanisms that hinder cellular immune responses. Further studies are needed to explore these findings... - Polymorphisms and haplotypes in the cytochrome P450 17A1, prolactin, and catechol-O-methyltransferase genes and non-Hodgkin lymphoma riskChristine F Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, 140 Earl Warren Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2391-401. 2005..These results suggest that PRL, CYP17A1, and COMT may be relevant genetic loci for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and indicate a possible role for prolactin and estrogen in lymphoma pathogenesis... - Polymorphisms in innate immunity genes and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaMatthew S Forrest
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Br J Haematol 134:180-3. 2006..8), whereas the toll-like receptor 4 1063A>G variant allele was inversely associated with diffuse large cell lymphoma (OR = 0.67, 95% CI 0.45-0.99). These results suggest that variation in innate immune genes may alter NHL susceptibility... - Polymorphisms and haplotypes in folate-metabolizing genes and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphomaChristine F Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Blood 104:2155-62. 2004..The associations of DLCL and FL with TYMS 1494del6 and MTHFR 677TT genotypes, respectively, suggest that folate metabolism may play an important role in the pathogenesis of specific subtypes of NHL... - Domestic and farm-animal exposures and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a population-based study in the San Francisco Bay AreaGregory J Tranah
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco Coordinating Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107 1728, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2382-7. 2008..To assess the association between animal exposures and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL)... - Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and lymphotoxin-alpha (LTA) polymorphisms and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the InterLymph ConsortiumChristine F Skibola
237A Hildebrand Hall, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Epidemiol 171:267-76. 2010..04). These findings strengthen previous results for DLBCL and the LTA 252A>G/TNF -308A locus and provide robust evidence that these TNF/LTA gene variants, or others in linkage disequilibrium, are involved in NHL etiology... - Anthropometric factors and pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay areaCarey A Eberle
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:1235-44. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: These results are consistent with other cancer studies and support further research to determine the mechanism by which increased BMI may influence the development of pancreatic cancer... - Polymorphisms in ghrelin and neuropeptide Y genes are associated with non-Hodgkin lymphomaDanica R Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:1251-6. 2005..4; 95% CI, 1.3-4.4), 1258G>A (OR, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.1-3.5), and 5671C>T (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-3.0). These results add further support for the hypothesis that SNPs in energy-regulating genes affect risk of NHL... - Survival in population-based pancreatic cancer patients: San Francisco Bay area, 1995-1999Zhihong Gong
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Am J Epidemiol 174:1373-81. 2011..Although the results provide further evidence of poor survival among patients with pancreatic cancer, the data also suggest that within-stage-of-disease patients survived somewhat longer with therapy... - Whole grains and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaJune M Chan
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:1174-85. 2007..65, 95% CI: 0.47, 0.89; trend-p = 0.02). These data provide some support for the hypothesis that consuming more whole-grain or high-fiber foods may reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer. Refined grains were not associated with risk... - Anal intraepithelial neoplasia in a multisite study of HIV-infected and high-risk HIV-uninfected womenNancy A Hessol
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, California 94122, USA
AIDS 23:59-70. 2009..To study anal intraepithelial neoplasia and its associations with anal and cervical human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical neoplasia, host immune status, and demographic and behavioral risk factors in women with and at risk for HIV infection... - Body mass index, leptin and leptin receptor polymorphisms, and non-hodgkin lymphomaChristine F Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, 140 Earl Warren Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:779-86. 2004.... - Pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in two large pooled case-control studiesPaige M Bracci
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, 3333 California St Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:1723-1731. 2009..We conducted detailed analyses to determine the association between pancreatitis onset and pancreatic cancer risk... - Genetic variants at 6p21.33 are associated with susceptibility to follicular lymphomaChristine F Skibola
Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Nat Genet 41:873-5. 2009..7 x 10(-11)). The region of strongest association overlapped C6orf15 (STG), located near psoriasis susceptibility region 1 (PSORS1)... - Genome-wide association study of follicular lymphoma identifies a risk locus at 6p21.32Lucia Conde
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Nat Genet 42:661-4. 2010..We also found confirmatory evidence of a previously reported association between chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and rs735665 (combined P = 4.24 x 10(-9))... - Intake of fatty acids and antioxidants and pancreatic cancer in a large population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay AreaZhihong Gong
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Int J Cancer 127:1893-904. 2010..These results support the hypotheses that a high intake of saturated and certain monounsaturated fatty acids may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer, whereas greater intake of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins C and E may reduce the risk... - Comparison of interviewed and non-interviewed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients in the San Francisco Bay AreaElizabeth A Holly
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:419-25. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: High-grade lymphomas associated with poor survival in homosexual men are likely to be under-represented in case-control studies of NHL... - Residential history, family characteristics and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay AreaPaige M Bracci
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 94118-1944, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1287-94. 2006..The role of the complex relationship between residential history, family characteristics, childhood infections, and immune function in the development of NHL warrants further investigation in pooled analyses... - Screening the human serum proteome for genotype-phenotype associations: an analysis of the IL6 -174G>C polymorphismChristine M Hegedus
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proteomics 7:548-57. 2007..This study illustrates that proteome analysis can enhance our understanding of genotype-phenotype relationships. Additional studies are needed to clarify the interaction between the IL6 -174G>C polymorphism and ApoC-I... - Solvent exposure and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: no risk in a population-based study in the San Francisco Bay AreaGregory J Tranah
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94107 1728, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:3130-2. 2009..Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were adjusted for potential confounders. Our results have provided no support for an association between NHL and occupational exposure to solvents... - Farm-related exposures and childhood brain tumours in seven countries: results from the SEARCH International Brain Tumour StudyJimmy T Efird
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 17:201-11. 2003..0) and unprocessed wool (OR = 3.0). Our findings suggest that various farm-related exposures are positively associated with CBT and warrant further investigation into the public health importance of these associations... - Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation and risk of pancreatic cancerErnest T Lam
Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Cancer Res 72:686-95. 2012..Together, the results of this study provide evidence that aggregated common and rare variants and the accumulation of singleton variants are important contributors to pancreatic cancer risk... - Intake of folate, vitamins B6, B12 and methionine and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population-based case-control studyZhihong Gong
Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:1317-25. 2009..We examined the association between pancreatic cancer and intake of folate, vitamins B(6), B(12) and methionine in a large population-based case-control study... - High-resolution analysis of genomic alterations and human papillomavirus integration in anal intraepithelial neoplasiaS Eric Gagne
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0126, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 40:182-9. 2005..Our data suggest that there may be several oncogenes in this region that are coactivated to contribute to progression to high-grade AIN... - Vitamin D, calcium, and retinol intake, and pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay areaLydia B Zablotska
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:91-100. 2011..The aim of this study was to evaluate a complex association among intake of dietary vitamin D, calcium, and retinol, and pancreatic cancer risk... - Signs and symptoms of pancreatic cancer: a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay areaElizabeth A Holly
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 94118-1944, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2:510-7. 2004..The large magnitude of the risk estimates indicate that common gastrointestinal symptoms may assist clinicians in earlier diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and perhaps affect survival... - Pancreatic cancer and medical history in a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaAndrew H Ko
Division of Hematology Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:809-19. 2007..To determine the association between pancreatic cancer and medical conditions... - Pancreatic cancer, animal protein and dietary fat in a population-based study, San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaJune M Chan
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:1153-67. 2007..A population-based case-control study of pancreatic cancer was conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area to examine these associations... - Diabetes mellitus and pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco Bay Area, CaliforniaFurong Wang
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, Suite 280, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118-1944, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1458-63. 2006..Diabetes of short duration with insulin use conferred a substantially elevated risk for pancreatic cancer and may reflect insulin resistance that is elicited by pancreatic cancer... - Blood transfusions and non-Hodgkin's lymphomaEric J Chow
University of California School of Medicine, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94118-1944, USA
Epidemiol Rev 24:269-79. 2002 - Population-based study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, histology, and medical history among human immunodeficiency virus-negative participants in San FranciscoElizabeth A Holly
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Box 1228, University of California School of Medicine, 500 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143 1228
Am J Epidemiol 158:316-27. 2003..These data provide direction for further investigation of immune function and genetic characteristics of subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in lymphomagenesis and warrant analyses in large pooled data sets... - West Coast study of childhood brain tumours and maternal use of hair-colouring productsElizabeth A Holly
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 16:226-35. 2002..Together with results from previous studies, these results provide no consistent evidence of an association between risk for CBT and use of hair dyes during pregnancy... - Cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking, passive smoke exposure, and risk of pancreatic cancer: a population-based study in the San Francisco Bay AreaGregory J Tranah
California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, 94107, USA
BMC Cancer 11:138. 2011..To examine the influence of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking, cessation of cigarette smoking and passive smoke exposure on the risk of pancreatic cancer... - Vegetable and fruit intake and pancreatic cancer in a population-based case-control study in the San Francisco bay areaJune M Chan
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 94118-1944, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:2093-7. 2005..These results suggest that increasing vegetable and fruit consumption, already recommended for the prevention of several other chronic diseases, may impart some protection against developing pancreatic cancer... - Obesity and survival in population-based patients with pancreatic cancer in the San Francisco Bay AreaZhihong Gong
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:1929-37. 2012..However, studies of obesity and overall survival in patients with pancreatic cancer are notably lacking, especially in population-based studies... - Blood transfusions as a risk factor for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the San Francisco Bay Area: a population-based studyEric J Chow
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118-1944, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:725-31. 2002..39, 95% CI: 0.16, 0.94). In summary, these findings are similar to those of prior negative studies and do not support some previous reports of an adverse association between blood transfusion and NHL... - Anal intraepithelial neoplasia in the highly active antiretroviral therapy era among HIV-positive men who have sex with menJoel M Palefsky
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
AIDS 19:1407-14. 2005..We characterized the prevalence of AIN among HIV-positive MSM and examined the association between AIN and various factors including use of HAART... - Increased risk of high-grade anal neoplasia associated with a human papillomavirus type 16 E6 sequence variantMaria M Da Costa
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Infect Dis 185:1229-37. 2002..4; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-10), after controlling for HIV status. These data provide further evidence for HPV strain variation as a factor in determining the natural history of anogenital neoplasia... - Maternal medication use and the risk of brain tumors in the offspring: the SEARCH international case-control studyAmanda H Cardy
Department of Public Health, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, Scotland, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 118:1302-8. 2006..This is the largest case-control study of CBT and maternal medications to date. Our data provide little support for an association between maternal use of medications that may form NOC and subsequent development of CBT in the offspring... 
Personal use of hair dye and the risk of certain subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphomaYawei Zhang
Environmental Science Division, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:1321-31. 2008..1, 2.0). These results indicate that personal hair-dye use may play a role in risks of FL and CLL/SLL in women who started use before 1980 and that increased risk of FL among women who started use during or after 1980 cannot be excluded...- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in women: reproductive factors and exogenous hormone useJennifer S Lee
Division of Endocrinology, Clinical Nutrition, and Vascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:278-88. 2008..51, 1.2), and of follicular lymphoma (OR = 0.75, 95% CI: 0.46, 1.2). Results suggest that endogenous and exogenous reproductive hormones confer different risks by NHL subtype and are associated with a reduced risk of DLCL in women... - Detecting pathway-based gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in pancreatic cancerEric J Duell
International Agency for Research Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:1470-9. 2008.... - Self-collected versus clinician-collected anal cytology specimens to diagnose anal intraepithelial neoplasia in HIV-positive menRoss D Cranston
Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 36:915-20. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: MSM with biopsy-proven AIN can self-collect anal cytology samples with sensitivity comparable with that of experienced clinicians. This may facilitate screening for AIN... - Diet and melanoma in a case-control studyAmy E Millen
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7344, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1042-51. 2004..Malignant melanoma has been one of the most rapidly increasing cancers within the United States with few modifiable risk factors. This study investigates risk related to dietary factors, which are potentially modifiable... - Expert review of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in a population-based cancer registry: reliability of diagnosis and subtype classificationsChristina A Clarke
Northern California Cancer Center, Union City, California, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:138-43. 2004..Thus, overall NHL incidence and survival statistics from the early 1990s are probably accurate, but subtype-specific statistics could be substantially biased, especially because of high (15-20%) proportions of unclassified lymphomas... - No increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with steroids, estrogens and psychotropics (Netherlands)Annette B Beiderbeck
Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Cancer Causes Control 14:639-44. 2003..34; 95% confidence interval 0.18-0.64). CONCLUSIONS: In our population-based study, corticosteroids, estrogens and psychotropics were not associated with an increased risk of NHL... - Prescription medications associated with a decreased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphomaAnnette B Beiderbeck
Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacotherapy, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Am J Epidemiol 157:510-6. 2003..40 (95% confidence interval: 0.22, 0.71). Results support an inverse association between occurrence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and use of H(2) blockers and analgesics among women, and they warrant confirmation in larger studies... - Maternal prenatal exposure to nitrosatable drugs and childhood brain tumoursRoberta McKean-Cowdin
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern, California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1441 Eastlake Ave, PO Box 33800, MS 44, Los Angeles, CA 90033 0800, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:211-7. 2003..We hypothesized that maternal ingestion of certain subgroups of nitrosatable drug products during pregnancy increases the risk of brain tumour development in offspring... - Relation of childhood brain tumors to exposure of parents and children to tobacco smoke: the SEARCH international case-control study. Surveillance of Environmental Aspects Related to Cancer in HumansGraziella Filippini
Neuroepidemiology Research Unit, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C Besta, Milan, Italy
Int J Cancer 100:206-13. 2002..These results did not change considering the child's age at diagnosis, the histologic type of tumor or center... - Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph ConsortiumKarin Ekstrom Smedby
Department of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, SE 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Blood 111:4029-38. 2008..Thus, specific autoimmune disorders are associated with NHL risk beyond the development of rare NHL subtypes in affected organs. The pattern of associations with NHL subtypes may harbor clues to lymphomagenesis... - Identifying individuals at high risk of melanoma: a practical predictor of absolute riskThomas R Fears
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:3590-6. 2006..We developed a model to estimate the 5-year absolute risk of melanoma to efficiently identify individuals at increased risk of melanoma for potential interventions... - Inflammation, genetic polymorphisms in proinflammatory genes TNF-A, RANTES, and CCR5, and risk of pancreatic adenocarcinomaEric J Duell
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:726-31. 2006..Our results lend support for the hypothesis that proinflammatory gene polymorphisms, in combination with proinflammatory conditions, may influence the development of pancreatic cancer... - Family history of hematopoietic malignancies and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL): a pooled analysis of 10 211 cases and 11 905 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)Sophia S Wang
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Blood 109:3479-88. 2007..0; 95% CI = 1.6-5.6). The pattern of NHL heritability appeared to be uniform across NHL subtypes, but risk patterns differed by specific hematopoietic malignancies and the sex of the relative, revealing critical clues to disease etiology... - Alcohol consumption and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysisLindsay M Morton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Lancet Oncol 6:469-76. 2005..Further study designs are needed to determine whether confounding lifestyle factors or immunomodulatory effects of alcohol explain this association... - Pregnancy history and incidence of melanoma in women: a pooled analysisMargaret R Karagas
Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, 7927 Rubin Bldg, One Medical Center Drive, Hanover, Lebanon, New Hampshire, 03756 0001, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:11-9. 2006..g., <5 live births) (pOR 0.33, 95% CI 0.14-0.75). The results are compatible with an effect of reproductive history-related factors on melanoma risk, but also could reflect differences in other factors, such as sun exposure history... - Reproductive and menstrual risk factors for pancreatic cancer: a population-based study of San Francisco Bay Area womenEric J Duell
Department of Community and Family Medicine, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:741-7. 2005.... - Survival among patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: a population-based study (United States)Rosemary D Cress
California Cancer Registry, Public Health Institute, and Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA 95815, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:403-9. 2006..The purpose of the current study was to evaluate survival of patients diagnosed in California with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas by demographic and tumor-related factors... - Changes in cancer registry coding for lymphoma subtypes: reliability over time and relevance for surveillance and studyChristina A Clarke
Northern California Cancer Center, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:630-8. 2006.... - Average midrange ultraviolet radiation flux and time outdoors predict melanoma riskThomas R Fears
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Cancer Res 62:3992-6. 2002..4%). The association between melanoma risk and average annual UVB flux was strong and consistent for men and for women. The association with total adult hours outdoors was notable for men of all skin types and women who develop a suntan... - A population-based study of the Arg399Gln polymorphism in X-ray repair cross- complementing group 1 (XRCC1) and risk of pancreatic adenocarcinomaEric J Duell
Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cancer Res 62:4630-6. 2002..Our findings, including stronger associations and interactions among women, require replication in additional study populations... - Incidence of anal cancer in California: increased incidence among men in San Francisco, 1973-1999Rosemary D Cress
California Cancer Registry, Sacramento, CA, USA
Prev Med 36:555-60. 2003..Incidence of anal cancer has increased in the United States during the past 30 years. This report describes the incidence of this rare cancer in the diverse California population... - A population-based, case-control study of polymorphisms in carcinogen-metabolizing genes, smoking, and pancreatic adenocarcinoma riskEric J Duell
Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:297-306. 2002.... - Parental occupation and Ewing's sarcoma: pooled and meta-analysisPatricia C Valery
Population and Clinical Sciences Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
Int J Cancer 115:799-806. 2005..This collaborative analysis of available individual data on parental occupation and ESFT in the offspring provides evidence supporting the hypothesis of an association between ESFT and parental occupation in farming... - Hernias and Ewing's sarcoma family of tumours: a pooled analysis and meta-analysisPatricia C Valery
Division of Population and Clinical Sciences, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland 4029, Australia
Lancet Oncol 6:485-90. 2005..However, the causes of these tumours remain unknown. We therefore aimed to investigate the association between hernia and Ewing's sarcoma family of tumours... - Use of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a population-based case-control studyE Dawn Flick
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 164:497-504. 2006..94). Conversely, although the confidence intervals were wide, the adjusted odds ratios for COX-2 inhibitor use were nearly twofold for women, indicating a possible increase in NHL risk associated with regular use of COX-2 inhibitors... - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and obesity: a pooled analysis from the InterLymph ConsortiumEleanor V Willett
Epidemiology and Genetics Unit, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 122:2062-70. 2008.... - Household water source and the risk of childhood brain tumours: results of the SEARCH International Brain Tumor StudyBeth A Mueller
Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, Mail Stop M4 C308, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Int J Epidemiol 33:1209-16. 2004..We examined whether household water source and the presence of nitrates or nitrites in residential water were associated with increased risks of childhood brain tumours (CBT)... - Cigarette smoking and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a pooled analysis from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (interlymph)Lindsay M Morton
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conneticut, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:925-33. 2005.... - Heterogeneity of risk for melanoma and pancreatic and digestive malignancies: a melanoma case-control studyJoni L Rutter
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7236, USA
Cancer 101:2809-16. 2004..Even in a large case-control study, few families that had multiple members with melanoma were identified, and family members with pancreatic malignancies were rare... - Polymorphisms in the estrogen receptor 1 and vitamin C and matrix metalloproteinase gene families are associated with susceptibility to lymphomaChristine F Skibola
School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
PLoS ONE 3:e2816. 2008..Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is the fifth most common cancer in the U.S. and few causes have been identified. Genetic association studies may help identify environmental risk factors and enhance our understanding of disease mechanisms... - Reproductive risk factors for cutaneous melanoma in women: a case-control studyC Suzanne Lea
Statistics and Epidemiology Program, Research Triangle Institute International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:505-13. 2007..9, 95% confidence interval: 1.1, 8.1). Oral contraceptive use and hormone replacement therapy were not associated with melanoma risk... - Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the InterLymph ConsortiumNathaniel Rothman
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Lancet Oncol 7:27-38. 2006..We aimed to test this hypothesis using previously unpublished data from eight European, Canadian, and US case-control studies of the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph)... - Potential for selection bias with tumor tissue retrieval in molecular epidemiology studiesJane A Hoppin
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology Branch, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:1-6. 2002.... - Hepatitis C and non-Hodgkin lymphoma among 4784 cases and 6269 controls from the International Lymphoma Epidemiology ConsortiumSilvia de Sanjose
Unit of Infections and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Institut d Investigacio Biomedica de Bellvitge, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:451-8. 2008..We pooled case-control study data to provide robust estimates of the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) subtypes after HCV infection...