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Serum factors and clinical characteristics associated with serum e-screen activityJue Wang
Corresponding Author Brian L Sprague, Office of Health Promotion Research, 1 S Prospect St, Rm 4428B, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 22:962-71. 2013..We sought to identify serum molecules and patient characteristics associated with serum E-Screen activity among postmenopausal women...
A sustained decline in postmenopausal hormone use: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2010Brian L Sprague
Department of Surgery and Office of Health Promotion Research, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Obstet Gynecol 120:595-603. 2012..We sought to evaluate national trends in the prevalence of hormone use and to assess variation by type of formulation and patient characteristics...- The vitamin D pathway and mammographic breast density among postmenopausal womenBrian L Sprague
Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 131:255-65. 2012..While it remains possible that vitamin D could influence breast cancer risk, our results suggest that such an effect would be mediated through pathways other than breast density... - Socioeconomic status and survival after an invasive breast cancer diagnosisBrian L Sprague
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Cancer 117:1542-51. 2011..However, very few studies have examined individual-level SES in relation to breast cancer survival or have assessed the contextual role of community-level SES independent of individual-level SES... - Circulating sex hormones and mammographic breast density among postmenopausal womenBrian L Sprague
Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, 1 S Prospect St, Rm 4428B, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Horm Cancer 2:62-72. 2011..These results suggest that breast density has a hormonal etiology; however, it may differ in important ways from that of breast cancer risk... - The contribution of postmenopausal hormone use cessation to the declining incidence of breast cancerBrian L Sprague
Department of Surgery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Cancer Causes Control 22:125-34. 2011..Further efforts are needed to quantify the potential contributions of other factors, such as the plateau in screening mammography utilization... - Proportion of invasive breast cancer attributable to risk factors modifiable after menopauseBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:404-11. 2008..3%. These findings suggest that a substantial fraction of postmenopausal breast cancer may be avoided by purposeful changes in lifestyle later in life... - Change in lifestyle behaviors and medication use after a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 124:487-95. 2010..These findings indicate that women make substantial changes in their behaviors after a DCIS diagnosis. This cohort will be further monitored to evaluate the association between these behaviors and health outcomes following DCIS... - Effects of birth order and maternal age on breast cancer risk: modification by whether women had been breast-fedHazel B Nichols
University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Epidemiology 19:417-23. 2008..Recent studies have also considered potential health effects associated with exposure to environmental contaminants in breastmilk... - Socioeconomic disparities in the decline in invasive breast cancer incidenceBrian L Sprague
University of Wisconsin Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, 610 Walnut St, WARF Rm 307, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 122:873-8. 2010..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that a saturation of screening mammography utilization contributed to the overall decline in breast cancer incidence... 
Genetic variation in TP53 and risk of breast cancer in a population-based case control studyBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Carcinogenesis 28:1680-6. 2007..03). These results indicate that common variation in the TP53 gene could modify the risk of invasive breast cancer...- Serum calcium and breast cancer risk in a prospective cohort studyBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health Sciences and Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Ann Epidemiol 20:82-5. 2010..1(st) quartile) or ionized (HR = 0.85; 95% CI: 0.53, 1.38; 4(th) vs. 1(st) quartile) serum calcium levels. Additionally, we found no evidence for an association among subgroups defined by menopausal status and body mass index... - Fertility drug use and mammographic breast density in a mammography screening cohort of premenopausal womenBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3128-33. 2008..04). Our results indicate no overall association between fertility drug use and mammographic density, but provide evidence that density may be lower in women more recently dispensed a fertility drug... - Mammographic breast density and serum phytoestrogen levelsSarah J Lowry
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Nutr Cancer 64:783-9. 2012..Additional studies are needed to determine effects of higher levels, particularly given patterns of increasing phytoestrogen intake... - Thyroid cancer incidence and socioeconomic indicators of health care accessBrian L Sprague
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, 610 Walnut Street, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Cancer Causes Control 19:585-93. 2008..This study investigated the relation between the incidence of thyroid cancer and socioeconomic indicators of health care access... - Variation in tumor natural history contributes to racial disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosisNataliya G Batina
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 138:519-28. 2013..These differences suggest that targeted prevention and detection strategies that go beyond equalizing access to mammography may be needed to eliminate breast cancer disparities... - Health-related quality of life before and after a breast cancer diagnosisAmy Trentham-Dietz
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 109:379-87. 2008..9 (95% CI: -6.3, 0.6) on the PCS and MCS scales, respectively. These results suggest that breast cancer survivors experience relative declines in health-related QOL across a broad spectrum of domains, even many years after diagnosis... - Lifetime recreational and occupational physical activity and risk of in situ and invasive breast cancerBrian L Sprague
University of Wisconsin Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:236-43. 2007..Lifetime strenuous occupational activity was not associated with invasive breast cancer risk. These results provide further evidence that, for most women, physical activity may reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer...