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An integrated nutrition curriculum in medical educationC A Thomson
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
J Cancer Educ 15:127-9. 2000..After the grant support ended, nutrition began to be crowded out of the curriculum by other, more traditional, topics, but a 57% gain over baseline was sustained. External support for nutrition education is urgently needed...- Increase in cruciferous vegetable intake in women previously treated for breast cancer participating in a dietary intervention trialCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
Nutr Cancer 57:11-9. 2007..These data suggest that this study population will be the first U.S. population sample to provide ample quantity and variety in cruciferous intake to examine whether these vegetables are protective against breast cancer recurrence... - A cross-sectional analysis demonstrated the healthy volunteer effect in smokersCynthia A Thomson
The University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center, PO Box 245024, Tucson, AZ 85724 5024, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:378-82. 2005..This cross-sectional descriptive analysis sought to determine if a healthy volunteer effect can be demonstrated among smokers selected to participate in a dietary intervention trial... 
Vegetable intake is associated with reduced breast cancer recurrence in tamoxifen users: a secondary analysis from the Women's Healthy Eating and Living StudyCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Science, University of Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 125:519-27. 2011..Such associations should be explored further as the possibility that vegetable intake is simply a surrogate for other health-promoting behaviors cannot be ruled out...- Dietary patterns, risk and prognosis of breast cancerCynthia A Thomson
University of Arizona Cancer Center, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
Future Oncol 5:1257-69. 2009..g., hormone levels, drug metabolism and oxidative stress), as well as factors that influence non-breast cancer morbidity risk and causes of death in the survivor population... 
Metabolic syndrome and elevated C-reactive protein in breast cancer survivors on adjuvant hormone therapyCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:2041-7. 2009..Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), two predictors of CVD, have not been fully evaluated in overweight breast cancer survivors on hormone-modulating agents...- Plasma and dietary carotenoids are associated with reduced oxidative stress in women previously treated for breast cancerCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences and Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Shantz Building, Room 328, 1177 East 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2008-15. 2007.... - Nutrition and diet in the development of gastrointestinal cancerCynthia A Thomson
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, 1515 N Campbell Avenue, PO Box 245024, Tucson, AZ 85724 5024, USA
Curr Oncol Rep 5:192-202. 2003..Finally, the evidence for a relationship between pancreatic cancer and diet remains sparse and warrants additional investigation... - Measuring dietary change in a diet intervention trial: comparing food frequency questionnaire and dietary recallsCynthia A Thomson
University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
Am J Epidemiol 157:754-62. 2003.... - A systematic review of behavioral interventions to promote intake of fruit and vegetablesCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 111:1523-35. 2011..Thus, efforts to combine these interventions with other approaches including social marketing, behavioral economics approaches, and technology-based behavior change models should be tested to ensure goals are met and sustained... - Increased fruit, vegetable and fiber intake and lower fat intake reported among women previously treated for invasive breast cancerCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson 85724, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:801-8. 2002..Through nutrition education and counseling, dietetics professionals may be able to promote healthful and evidence-based eating habits among women previously treated for breast cancer... - Green tea improves metabolic biomarkers, not weight or body composition: a pilot study in overweight breast cancer survivorsN R Stendell-Hollis
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Hum Nutr Diet 23:590-600. 2010..This pilot study tested the effect of daily decaffeinated green tea consumption for 6 months on weight and body composition, select metabolic parameters and lipid profiles in overweight breast cancer survivors... - Effect of an integrated nutrition curriculum on medical education, student clinical performance, and student perception of medical-nutrition trainingD L Taren
Division of Health Promotion Sciences, University of Arizona, College of Public Health, Tucson 85724, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 73:1107-12. 2001..However, most schools do not have an identifiable nutrition curriculum. Medical schools that do include nutrition have not evaluated its effect on clinical skills... - Cruciferous vegetable intake questionnaire improves cruciferous vegetable intake estimatesCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 0038, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 107:631-43. 2007..To develop a validated, focused Cruciferous Vegetable Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) as an assessment tool for specific quantification of dietary cruciferous vegetable exposure... - Pilot study of dietary influences on mammographic density in pre- and postmenopausal Hispanic and non-Hispanic white womenCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 0038, USA
Menopause 14:243-50. 2007.... - Funding nutrition research: where's the money?Cynthia A Thomson
Nutritional Sciences, Medicine, Public Health, University of Arizona, Shantz Building, Room 328, 1177 E 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Nutr Clin Pract 22:609-17. 2007..This review provides an overview of funding sources, guidelines for securing funding, and recommendations to support a successful application for clinical nutrition research... - The role of antioxidants and vitamin A in ovarian cancer: results from the Women's Health InitiativeCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences and Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Nutr Cancer 60:710-9. 2008..The results from this prospective study of well-nourished, postmenopausal women suggest that intake of dietary antioxidants, carotenoids, and vitamin A are not associated with a reduction in ovarian cancer risk... - Comparison between dietary assessment methods for determining associations between nutrient intakes and bone mineral density in postmenopausal womenVanessa A Farrell
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Shantz 118, PO Box 210038, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 109:899-904. 2009..Diet records and the Arizona Food Frequency Questionnaire are acceptable dietary tools used to determine the associations of particular nutrients and BMD sites in healthy postmenopausal women... - Vitamin D and breast cancer recurrence in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) StudyElizabeth T Jacobs
Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 93:108-17. 2011..There is a paucity of research evaluating the relation between vitamin D and recurrence of breast cancer after treatment... - Changes in body weight and metabolic indexes in overweight breast cancer survivors enrolled in a randomized trial of low-fat vs. reduced carbohydrate dietsCynthia A Thomson
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Nutr Cancer 62:1142-52. 2010..1 ± 36.6; P = 0.01). Significant improvements in weight and metabolic indexes can be demonstrated among overweight breast cancer survivors adherent to either a carbohydrate- or fat-restricted diet... - The relationship between incidence of fractures and anemia in older multiethnic womenZhao Chen
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85724, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:2337-44. 2010.... - Longitudinal changes in body weight and body composition among women previously treated for breast cancer consuming a high-vegetable, fruit and fiber, low-fat dietCynthia A Thomson
Dept of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0038, USA
Eur J Nutr 44:18-25. 2005..Whether a plant-based diet without specific energy goals will result in weight loss or changes in body composition in women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer has not been fully explored... - Diet and biomarkers of oxidative damage in women previously treated for breast cancerCynthia A Thomson
Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 0038, USA
Nutr Cancer 51:146-54. 2005..The results of this nested case-controlled study provide potential mechanisms by which a high fruit and vegetable, low-fat diet might reduce the recurrence rate of or early-stage breast cancer... - The psychosocial and behavioral characteristics related to energy misreportingJaclyn Maurer
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Nutr Rev 64:53-66. 2006..This review will provide a detailed discussion of the published associations among psychosocial and behavioral characteristics and energy misreporting... - Alcohol consumption and body weight change in postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health InitiativeC A Thomson
Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 36:1158-64. 2012..To determine whether alcohol consumption is associated with incident overweight or obesity in normal-weight, postmenopausal women... - Adipose tissue accumulation of d-limonene with the consumption of a lemonade preparation rich in d-limonene contentJessica A Miller
Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
Nutr Cancer 62:783-8. 2010..009). Our results demonstrate accumulation of d-limonene in adipose tissue after oral dosing and support additional studies of d-limonene for chemoprevention in tissues such as the breast that are comprised of a significant fat fraction... - Plasma triacylglycerol and HDL cholesterol concentrations confirm self-reported changes in carbohydrate and fat intakes in women in a diet intervention trialCheryl L Rock
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Reproductive Medicine, and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
J Nutr 134:342-7. 2004..The degree of change in these lipid concentrations was small and does not suggest increased cardiovascular disease risk... - Comparison of baseline dietary intake of Hispanic and matched non-Hispanic white breast cancer survivors enrolled in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living studyMariá A Hernández-Valero
Center for Research on Minority Health, Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:1323-9. 2008..To assess the reported baseline dietary intake of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white breast cancer survivors in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living study, a randomized plant-based dietary intervention clinical trial... - Reliability of plasma carotenoid biomarkers and its relation to study powerWael K Al-Delaimy
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Epidemiology 19:338-44. 2008..We assessed reliability of plasma carotenoid levels over time and how it could influence study power through sample size and effect-size... - Psychosocial and behavioral profile and predictors of self-reported energy underreporting in obese middle-aged womenJaclyn Maurer Abbot
Nutritional Sciences, Cook College at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:114-9. 2008.... - Achieving substantial changes in eating behavior among women previously treated for breast cancer--an overview of the interventionVicky A Newman
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 105:382-91; quiz 488. 2005..To report baseline to 12-month dietary change and investigate whether cooking-class attendance influenced adherence to the study's dietary targets... - On the importance of using multiple methods of dietary assessmentLoki Natarajan
Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0645, USA
Epidemiology 15:738-45. 2004..CONCLUSION: These findings underscore the importance of using multiple measures of dietary assessment in studies examining diet-disease associations... - Post-diagnosis weight gain and breast cancer recurrence in women with early stage breast cancerBette J Caan
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, 2000 Broadway, 94612 Oakland, CA, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 99:47-57. 2006..To examine whether weight gain after diagnosis of breast cancer affects the risk of breast cancer recurrence... - Effects of a high-fiber, low-fat diet intervention on serum concentrations of reproductive steroid hormones in women with a history of breast cancerCheryl L Rock
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, CA 92093 0901, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:2379-87. 2004..Diet intervention trials are testing whether postdiagnosis dietary modification can influence breast cancer recurrence and survival. One possible mechanism is an effect on reproductive steroid hormones. Participants and.. - Telephone counseling intervention increases intakes of micronutrient- and phytochemical-rich vegetables, fruit and fiber in breast cancer survivorsJohn P Pierce
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
J Nutr 134:452-8. 2004.... - High dietary fiber consumption is not associated with gastrointestinal discomfort in a diet intervention trialArchana Jaiswal McEligot
Department of Medicine at University of California, Irvine, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 102:549-51. 2002 - Associations between mammographic density and body composition in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women by menopause statusGraciela Caire-Juvera
Nutrition Department, Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, Sonora, Mexico
Menopause 15:319-25. 2008..To evaluate the associations of body composition, including percentage of lean and fat mass, with the percentage of mammographic density and mammographic dense area among pre- and postmenopausal Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women... - Plasma carotenoids and recurrence-free survival in women with a history of breast cancerCheryl L Rock
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
J Clin Oncol 23:6631-8. 2005.... - Ethnicity and nutrient intake among Arizona WISEWOMAN participantsKaren Y Gregory-Mercado
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:379-89. 2007..Diet quality and risks of chronic disease have been identified, yet nutrient intakes from older uninsured populations have been scarcely described... - Dietary fat reduction and breast cancer outcome: interim efficacy results from the Women's Intervention Nutrition StudyRowan T Chlebowski
Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1124 West Carson St, Building J 3, Torrance, CA 90502 2064, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 98:1767-76. 2006..We carried out a randomized, prospective, multicenter clinical trial to test the effect of a dietary intervention designed to reduce fat intake in women with resected, early-stage breast cancer receiving conventional cancer management... - Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification TrialRoss L Prentice
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash 98109, USA
JAMA 295:629-42. 2006..The hypothesis that a low-fat dietary pattern can reduce breast cancer risk has existed for decades but has never been tested in a controlled intervention trial... - Greater survival after breast cancer in physically active women with high vegetable-fruit intake regardless of obesityJohn P Pierce
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores University of California, San Diego Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:2345-51. 2007..Single-variable analyses have associated physical activity, diet, and obesity with survival after breast cancer. This report investigates interactions among these variables... - Increases in plasma carotenoid concentrations in response to a major dietary change in the women's healthy eating and living studyJohn P Pierce
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0901, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1886-92. 2006..Other intervention studies have not achieved the level of change in circulating carotenoids required to properly test this hypothesis... - Influence of a diet very high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat on prognosis following treatment for breast cancer: the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) randomized trialJohn P Pierce
Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
JAMA 298:289-98. 2007..Evidence is lacking that a dietary pattern high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in total fat can influence breast cancer recurrence or survival... - Correlates of physical activity level in breast cancer survivors participating in the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) StudySuzi Hong
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 101:225-32. 2007..The purpose of this study was to examine factors that are associated with physical activity or inactivity among breast cancer survivors... - Low-fat dietary pattern and cancer incidence in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Randomized Controlled TrialRoss L Prentice
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1534-43. 2007..The trial protocol also listed ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer as outcomes that may be favorably affected by the intervention... - Fruit and vegetable consumption of older Mexican-American women is associated with their acculturation levelKaren Y Gregory-Mercado
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Ethn Dis 16:89-95. 2006..Public health efforts to improve the intake of FVs among MA women should be sensitive to their acculturation status... - Validity and systematic error in measuring carotenoid consumption with dietary self-report instrumentsLoki Natarajan
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:770-8. 2006..The use of either self-report method alone in diet-disease studies could lead to substantial bias and error. Multiple methods of dietary assessment may provide more accurate estimates of true dietary intake... - Weight gain and recovery of pre-cancer weight after breast cancer treatments: evidence from the women's healthy eating and living (WHEL) studyNazmus Saquib
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 105:177-86. 2007..To examine predictors of weight gain following breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent return to pre-cancer weight... - Influence of estrogen plus progestin on breast cancer and mammography in healthy postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized TrialRowan T Chlebowski
Harbor UCLA Research and Education Institute, Torrance 90502, USA
JAMA 289:3243-53. 2003..Outstanding issues not previously addressed include characteristics of breast cancers observed among women using hormones and whether diagnosis may be influenced by hormone effects on mammography... - Health-related quality of life in women previously treated for early-stage breast cancerWayne A Bardwell
University of California, San Diego, Comprehensive Cancer Center, La Jolla 92093-0645, USA
Psychooncology 13:595-604. 2004..Interventions targeting psychosocial symptoms, weight reduction, physical activity, sleep hygiene, and pain could result in improved HRQOL in these women... - Abdominal aortic aneurysm events in the women's health initiative: cohort studyFrank A Lederle
VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
BMJ 337:a1724. 2008..To assess the association between potential risk factors and subsequent clinically important abdominal aortic aneurysm events (repairs and ruptures) in women... - Effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on blood pressure: the Women's Health Initiative Randomized TrialKaren L Margolis
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Box 1524, Mailstop 21111R, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 1524, USA
Hypertension 52:847-55. 2008..01 (95% CI: 0.96 to 1.06.) In postmenopausal women, calcium plus vitamin D3 supplementation did not reduce either blood pressure or the risk of developing hypertension over 7 years of follow-up... - Prospective study of leukocyte count as a predictor of incident breast, colorectal, endometrial, and lung cancer and mortality in postmenopausal womenKaren L Margolis
HealthPartners Research Foundation, PO Box 1524, Mail Stop 21111R, Minneapolis, MN 55440 1524, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:1837-44. 2007..The immune system and inflammation are implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer. Prospective studies linking biomarkers of inflammation with cancer incidence and mortality have been inconclusive... - Reproductive steroid hormones and recurrence-free survival in women with a history of breast cancerCheryl L Rock
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0901, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:614-20. 2008.... - Soy and breast cancer: the controversy continuesMaria Elena Martinez
J Natl Cancer Inst 98:430-1. 2006 - Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of treated diabetes mellitus in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trialLesley F Tinker
Women s Health Initiative, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, PO Box 19024, Mail Stop M3 A410, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1500-11. 2008..This study was undertaken to assess the effects of a low-fat dietary pattern on incidence of treated diabetes among generally healthy postmenopausal women...
Research Grants
- Isothiocyanates, Limonene and Breast Cancer PreventionCynthia Thomson; Fiscal Year: 2006..This research will provide the foundation for future phytochemical assessment, a critical gap in current cancer prevention-diet research. ..
- Evaluation of Di-indolylmethane supplementation to modulate tamoxifen efficacy inCynthia A Thomson; Fiscal Year: 2010..If effective, this combinational approach could reduce breast cancer burden for those at risk. ..