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| Garth H RauscherSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago Country: USA Publications
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Disparities in screening mammography services by race/ethnicity and health insuranceGarth H Rauscher
School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Uinversity of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 21:154-60. 2012..Black and Hispanic women are diagnosed at a later stage of breast cancer than white women. Differential access to specialists, diffusion of technology, and affiliation with an academic medical center may be related to this stage disparity...
Misconceptions about breast lumps and delayed medical presentation in urban breast cancer patientsGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, M C 923, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:640-7. 2010..Prompt medical attention to a new breast symptom can result in earlier stage at diagnosis, yet many patients delay seeking medical care after becoming aware of a breast symptom...
Accuracy of self-reported cancer-screening histories: a meta-analysisGarth H Rauscher
School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:748-57. 2008..Survey data used to study trends in cancer screening may overestimate screening utilization while potentially underestimating existing disparities in use...
Common referent versus shifting referent methods when using case-control data to examine patterns of incidence across multiple exposure variablesGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:743-8. 2006..In case-control studies, when odds ratios estimate rate ratios or risk ratios, trends in odds ratios can reflect trends in incidence in the underlying population...
Baseline predictors of initiation vs. maintenance of regular mammography use among rural womenGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street, 816 SPHPI M C 923, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Prev Med 40:822-30. 2005....
Validating cancer histories in deceased relativesGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Epidemiology 16:262-5. 2005..A family history of cancer is a marker of familially shared genetic and environmental risk factors for cancer but is subject to inaccurate and biased reporting...
Alcohol intake and incidence of de novo adult acute leukemiaGarth H Rauscher
School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 816 SPHPI M C 923, 1603 W Taylor, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Leuk Res 28:1263-5. 2004..1; 95% CI: 1.2, 3.8). Divergent results might reflect the effect of different nutrients in beer and wine, unmeasured confounding, or differing impacts of selection bias on these associations...
Hair dye use and risk of adult acute leukemiaGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:19-25. 2004..Nonpermanent dyes were not associated with risk. Long duration of permanent dye use may have a larger impact on the risk of adult acute leukemia and other hematopoietic cancers than prior epidemiologic data suggest...
Relation between intervention exposures, changes in attitudes, and mammography use in the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening ProgramGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 816 SPHPI M C 923, 1603 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:741-7. 2004..Data came from interviews with a cohort of 331 black women who said they had heard of mammography at baseline interview...
Is family history of breast cancer a marker of susceptibility to exposures in the incidence of de novo adult acute leukemia?Garth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:289-94. 2003..Family history of breast cancer might be a marker of susceptibility to a range of leukemia risk factors, whose effects are generally weak or nonexistent when considered alone...
Family history of cancer and incidence of acute leukemia in adultsGarth H Rauscher
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:517-26. 2002..Associations between family history of breast cancer and leukemia incidence may be the result of unmeasured, shared etiologies specific to these cancers...
The import of trust in regular providers to trust in cancer physicians among white, African American, and Hispanic breast cancer patientsKaren Kaiser
Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago UIC, 1747 W Roosevelt Rd, Suite 558, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:51-7. 2011..Interpersonal trust is an important component of the patient-doctor relationship. Little is known about patients' trust in the multiple providers seen when confronting serious illness...
Comparing the reliability of responses to telephone-administered versus self-administered Web-based surveys in a case-control study of adult malignant brain cancerKristin M Rankin
Division of Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street m c 923, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2639-46. 2008....
Research Grants
- Comparative effectiveness of breast imaging modalities: a natural experimentGarth H Rauscher; Fiscal Year: 2010....
