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Beyond treatment: lifestyle choices after breast cancer to enhance quality of life and survivalMichelle D Holmes
Womens Health Issues 14:11-3. 2004
Socioeconomic status and health: youth development and neomaterialist and psychosocial mechanismsCandyce Kroenke
University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 66:31-42. 2008..This perspective may be particularly relevant to appropriately evaluating the impact of selection and causation in research on SES and disease and will also hopefully provide clarity to this ongoing theoretical debate...
Smoking and survival after breast cancer diagnosisMichelle D Holmes
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Cancer 120:2672-7. 2007..We conclude that a history of smoking increased mortality following diagnosis with breast cancer, but did not increase mortality from breast cancer...
Work characteristics and incidence of type 2 diabetes in womenCandyce H Kroenke
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:175-83. 2007..Job strain was unrelated to risk of type 2 diabetes. In conclusion, working overtime predicted a slightly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged female nurses...
Correlates of use of different types of complementary and alternative medicine by breast cancer survivors in the nurses' health studyCatherine Buettner
Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215 3325, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 100:219-27. 2006..Among breast cancer survivors, we identified the prevalence and correlates of use of different types of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)...
Social networks, social support, and survival after breast cancer diagnosisCandyce H Kroenke
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars, University of California, San Francisco, Center for Health and Community, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:1105-11. 2006..We prospectively examined social ties and survival after breast cancer diagnosis...
Dietary patterns and survival after breast cancer diagnosisCandyce H Kroenke
University of California, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:9295-303. 2005..There is little prior study of major dietary patterns and breast cancer survival...
Prospective change in health-related quality of life and subsequent mortality among middle-aged and older womenCandyce H Kroenke
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Am J Public Health 98:2085-91. 2008..We sought to determine prospective changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures and subsequent mortality in middle-aged and older women...
Prognostic impact of comorbidity among long-term breast cancer survivors: results from the LACE studyDejana Braithwaite
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1115-25. 2012..Little is known about the long-term impact of comorbidity among women with breast cancer...
Job stress and breast cancer risk: the nurses' health studyEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:1079-86. 2004..87 (95% CI: 0.73, 1.04) for women in high-strain jobs, and 0.90 (95% CI: 0.76, 1.06) for women in passive jobs. Findings from this study indicate that job stress is not related to any increase in breast cancer risk...
Caregiving stress, endogenous sex steroid hormone levels, and breast cancer incidenceCandyce H Kroenke
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:1019-27. 2004..7.46 pg/ml (95% confidence interval: 6.36, 8.76)) and bioavailable estradiol (geometric mean, 1.86 pg/ml vs. 1.35 pg/ml (95% confidence interval: 1.00, 1.82)). Stress from caregiving did not appear to increase breast cancer risk...
Prospective changes in quality of life after ductal carcinoma-in-situ: results from the Nurses' Health StudyLarissa Nekhlyudov
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2822-7. 2006..However, uncertainties exist about its prognosis, optimal treatment, and effect on women's health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL). Our study assessed the prospective changes in HRQoL in women diagnosed with DCIS...
Physical activity and survival after breast cancer diagnosisMichelle D Holmes
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
JAMA 293:2479-86. 2005..Physical activity has been shown to decrease the incidence of breast cancer, but the effect on recurrence or survival after a breast cancer diagnosis is not known...
Urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin levels and their correlations with lifestyle factors and steroid hormone levelsEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Pineal Res 40:116-24. 2006..Melatonin levels may be one mechanism through which these factors influence the development of cancer, but more studies are needed to elucidate these mechanisms definitively...
Night work and risk of breast cancerEva S Schernhammer
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Epidemiology 17:108-11. 2006..Melatonin shows potential oncostatic activity and is acutely suppressed by light exposure. Some evidence suggests an association between night work and breast cancer risk, possibly through the melatonin pathway...
Associations of plant food, dairy product, and meat intakes with 15-y incidence of elevated blood pressure in young black and white adults: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) StudyLyn M Steffen
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1169-77; quiz 1363-4. 2005..Consumption of plant foods and dairy and meat products may moderate increases in blood pressure...
Depressive symptoms and prospective incidence of colorectal cancer in womenCandyce H Kroenke
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:839-48. 2005..04). Associations appeared stronger in overweight women. However, depressive symptoms were unrelated to risk of colorectal adenomas. Associations are consistent with a possible role in late promotion of the disease...
Night work and breast cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysisSarah P Megdal
Milken Community High School, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eur J Cancer 41:2023-32. 2005..05). Studies on night shift work and breast cancer risk collectively show an increased breast cancer risk among women. Publication bias is unlikely to have influenced the results...
Weight, weight gain, and survival after breast cancer diagnosisCandyce H Kroenke
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:1370-8. 2005..To determine whether weight prior to diagnosis and weight gain after diagnosis are predictive of breast cancer survival...
Functional impact of breast cancer by age at diagnosisCandyce H Kroenke
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:1849-56. 2004..To explore changes in physical and psychosocial function before and after breast cancer by age at diagnosis...
A cross-sectional study of alcohol consumption patterns and biologic markers of glycemic control among 459 womenCandyce H Kroenke
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Diabetes Care 26:1971-8. 2003....
