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A multiethnic population-based study of smoking, alcohol and body size and risk of adenocarcinomas of the stomach and esophagus (United States)A H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Cancer Causes Control 12:721-32. 2001..We sought to determine the role of smoking, alcohol use, and body size characteristics in the etiology of esophageal, gastric cardia, and distal gastric adenocarcinomas...- HSD17B1 and CYP17 polymorphisms and breast cancer risk among Chinese women in SingaporeAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 104:450-7. 2003..41, 95% CI=1.56-3.72; RR=4.39, 95% CI=1.71-11.30, respectively). The latter gene-parity effects were especially pronounced in postmenopausal women... - Soy intake and other lifestyle determinants of serum estrogen levels among postmenopausal Chinese women in SingaporeAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:844-51. 2002..Current smokers showed significantly higher E(2) levels (28%) than nonsmokers (P = 0.04). These findings are discussed in relation to the recent doubling of breast cancer incidence among Chinese women in Singapore... - Adolescent and adult soy intake and risk of breast cancer in Asian-AmericansAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carcinogenesis 23:1491-6. 2002..These results show that high soy intake in childhood in Asian-Americans is associated with reduced breast cancer risk. Risk may be further reduced by intake as an adult... - Green tea and risk of breast cancer in Asian AmericansAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 106:574-9. 2003..In summary, our results point to an important role of both green tea and soy intake in relation to breast cancer risk in Asian-American women... - Hiatal hernia, reflux symptoms, body size, and risk of esophageal and gastric adenocarcinomaAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, MC 9175, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Cancer 98:940-8. 2003..Since the 1970s, incidence rates of esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma have risen substantially. Reasons for the increasing trends are not well understood... - Plasma isoflavone levels versus self-reported soy isoflavone levels in Asian-American women in Los Angeles CountyAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90089 9175, USA
Carcinogenesis 25:77-81. 2004..These results further strengthen our previous observation of an inverse association between soy intake and breast cancer risk in the Los Angeles Asian Breast Cancer Study... - Dietary heterocyclic amines and microsatellite instability in colon adenocarcinomasA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine and Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089 0251, USA
Carcinogenesis 22:1681-4. 2001..These results provide a potential mechanism of linking HAA exposure and cigarette smoking to a specific subset of colon cancers... - Tea intake, COMT genotype, and breast cancer in Asian-American womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Cancer Res 63:7526-9. 2003..Reduction in risk was strongest among persons who had the low activity COMT alleles, suggesting these individuals were less efficient in eliminating tea catechins and may derive the most benefit from these compounds... - Role of Helicobacter pylori CagA+ strains and risk of adenocarcinoma of the stomach and esophagusAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Int J Cancer 103:815-21. 2003..pylori reduces risk of esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma in this population. Our findings confirm the positive association between risk of distal gastric cancer and infection with H. pylori infection, especially CagA+ strains... - Soy intake and risk of breast cancer in Asians and Asian AmericansA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033 0800, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 68:1437S-1443S. 1998..Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies are necessary to investigate the longer-term relations between hormone concentrations and soy intake in women... - Lifestyle determinants of 5alpha-reductase metabolites in older African-American, white, and Asian-American menA H Wu
Departments of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 0251, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10:533-8. 2001..This difference may be related to the lower prostate cancer risk in Asian-Americans... - A meta-analysis of soyfoods and risk of stomach cancer: the problem of potential confoundersA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089 9175, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 9:1051-8. 2000.... - Fiber intake and risk of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and stomachAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, MS 44, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:713-22. 2007..Since the 1970s, incidence rates for esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinomas have risen substantially for reasons that are not well understood. We sought to determine the role of dietary factors in these tumor types... - Meta-analysis: dietary fat intake, serum estrogen levels, and the risk of breast cancerA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Medical School, Los Angeles, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 91:529-34. 1999.... 
Exposure misclassification bias in studies of environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancerA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Environ Health Perspect 107:873-7. 1999....- Validating genetic risk associations for ovarian cancer through the international Ovarian Cancer Association ConsortiumC L Pearce
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Br J Cancer 100:412-20. 2009..CYP3A4 encodes a key enzyme in oestrogen metabolism and our finding between rs2740574 and risk of ovarian cancer suggests that this pathway may be involved in ovarian carcinogenesis. Additional follow-up is warranted... - Menstrual and reproductive factors and risk of breast cancer in Asian-AmericansA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90033, USA
Br J Cancer 73:680-6. 1996..These results suggest that the lower rates of breast cancer in Asians must be largely as a result of other environmental/lifestyle factors... - Does mammographic density reflect ethnic differences in breast cancer incidence rates?Zhengjia Chen
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:140-7. 2004..This study suggests that absolute but not percent mammographic density reflects the lower breast cancer incidence rates of Asian Americans in relation to those of African Americans and Whites... - Mammographic density and breast cancer in three ethnic groupsGiske Ursin
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:332-8. 2003..Furthermore, our findings suggest that mammographic density is as strong a predictor of risk for African-American and Asian-American women as for white women... - Estimated Asian adult soy protein and isoflavone intakesMark Messina
Department ofNutrition, School of PublicHealth, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Nutr Cancer 55:1-12. 2006..Evidence suggests that < or =10% of the Asian population consumes as much as 25 g of soy protein or 100 mg of isoflavones per day. The applicability of these findings for making soy intake recommendations for non-Asians is discussed... - A genome screen of families with multiple cases of prostate cancer: evidence of genetic heterogeneityC L Hsieh
University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Hum Genet 69:148-58. 2001..The data provided little support for any of the putative prostate cancer-susceptibility genes identified in other linkage studies... - Mismatch repair deficiency and CpG island hypermethylation in sporadic colon adenocarcinomasZ Xiong
Departments of Surgery, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9176, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 10:799-803. 2001.... - Soy intake and breast cancer risk in Singapore Chinese Health StudyA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Br J Cancer 99:196-200. 2008..These prospective findings suggest that approximately 10 mg of isoflavones per day, obtained in a standard serving of tofu, may have lasting beneficial effects against breast cancer development... - Effects of soy foods on ovarian function in premenopausal womenA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Br J Cancer 82:1879-86. 2000.... - Tamoxifen, soy, and lifestyle factors in Asian American women with breast cancerAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:3024-30. 2007.... - Associations between soy, diet, reproductive factors, and mammographic density in Singapore Chinese womenGiske Ursin
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Nutr Cancer 56:128-35. 2006..Our results suggest that the effect of soy intake on percent mammographic density is moderate but possibly of clinical relevance... - Diabetes and risk of breast cancer in Asian-American womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Carcinogenesis 28:1561-6. 2007..08) than women without such a history after adjusting for BMI and WHR. Our results support the hypothesis that diabetes may have a role in the development of breast cancer, influencing risk via both sex hormone and insulin pathways... - Body size, hormone therapy and risk of breast cancer in Asian-American womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 120:844-52. 2007..017). The increased risk associated with high body weight was observed irrespective of HT use. Use of HT and high body size might have contributed to the rapid increase of breast cancer in Asian-Americans... - Tea, hormone-related cancers and endogenous hormone levelsAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Mol Nutr Food Res 50:160-9. 2006..We pay special attention to some of the limitations of the human studies and discuss future research needs... - Etiologic clues from the similarity of histology-specific trends in esophageal and lung cancersMyles G Cockburn
Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:1065-74. 2005..Squamous cell lung cancers, while caused by smoking, are believed to be caused by different constituents of tobacco smoke than lung adenocarcinomas. Smoking is also a risk factor for esophageal cancers... - A common genetic risk factor for colorectal and prostate cancerChristopher A Haiman
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Nat Genet 39:954-6. 2007..Comprehensive testing in the region uncovered variants capturing significant additional risk. Our results show that variants at 8q24 have different effects on cancer development that depend on the tissue type... 
Markers of inflammation and risk of ovarian cancer in Los Angeles CountyAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Int J Cancer 124:1409-15. 2009..The NSAID finding was unexpected and suggests that factors associated with inflammation are associated with ovarian cancer risk. This result needs confirmation with careful attention to the reasons for NSAID use...- Increased ovarian cancer risk associated with menopausal estrogen therapy is reduced by adding a progestinCeleste Leigh Pearce
Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Cancer 115:531-9. 2009.... - Green tea, soy, and mammographic density in Singapore Chinese womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3358-65. 2008..52). Our findings suggest that both regular green tea and high soy intake may have beneficial effects on the breast; the effect of green tea on PMD may be stronger than the effect of soy... - Comprehensive association testing of common genetic variation in DNA repair pathway genes in relationship with breast cancer risk in multiple populationsChristopher A Haiman
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Hum Mol Genet 17:825-34. 2008..The methods utilized in this study, applied to multiple populations, provide a framework for testing in association studies in diverse populations... - Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in Asian American womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1145-54. 2009..The role of diet as a cause of breast cancer in Asian Americans has not been adequately studied... - Hormone therapy, DNA methylation and colon cancerAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carcinogenesis 31:1060-7. 2010..055) and increased DNA methylation of ESR1 in the 'tumorous' colonic tissues (P = 0.056). These findings on DNA methylation and hormone therapy use need confirmation in larger studies... - Sleep duration, melatonin and breast cancer among Chinese women in SingaporeAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Carcinogenesis 29:1244-8. 2008..However, data are inconclusive from the three studies conducted in Western populations on sleep duration and breast cancer risk... - Comprehensive evaluation of ESR2 variation and ovarian cancer riskCeleste Leigh Pearce
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:393-6. 2008..28-11.73; P = 0.016). Haplotype D was also reported by the BPC3 to be associated with increased risk of breast cancer. This haplotype warrants further investigation to rule out any effect with invasive ovarian cancer risk... - Generalizability and epidemiologic characterization of eleven colorectal cancer GWAS hits in multiple populationsJing He
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Harlyne Norris Research Tower, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:70-81. 2011..Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in populations of European ancestry have identified several loci that confer an increased risk of colorectal cancer (CRC)... - Greatly increased occurrence of breast cancers in areas of mammographically dense tissueGiske Ursin
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Breast Cancer Res 7:R605-8. 2005..We addressed this question by studying ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), as revealed by microcalcifications... - A controlled 2-mo dietary fat reduction and soy food supplementation study in postmenopausal womenAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:1133-41. 2005..Low intake of dietary fat and high intake of soy foods have been suggested to partly explain the lower breast cancer rates in Asia, perhaps because of lower endogenous estrogens... - Hormonal factors and the risk of invasive ovarian cancer: a population-based case-control studyMalcolm C Pike
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
Fertil Steril 82:186-95. 2004..To examine the influence of hormone-related factors on the risk of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer (ovarian cancer)... - Is residual confounding a reasonable explanation for the apparent protective effects of beta-carotene found in epidemiologic studies of lung cancer in smokers?Daniel O Stram
Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:622-8. 2002..Appropriate cohort studies of lung cancer in smokers, utilizing biomarkers of smoking, are needed and are presently ongoing... - Tea and circulating estrogen levels in postmenopausal Chinese women in SingaporeAnna H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Carcinogenesis 26:976-80. 2005..Larger studies are needed to confirm results from this cross-sectional study and to better understand the potentially differing effect of black and green tea on circulating estrogen levels and ultimately on the risk of breast cancer... - Clarifying the PROGINS allele association in ovarian and breast cancer risk: a haplotype-based analysisCeleste Leigh Pearce
Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:51-9. 2005..We set out to refine the association between common variation at the PGR gene locus and these two diseases... - Prevention of cancers of the breast, endometrium and ovaryMalcolm C Pike
USC Norris Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oncogene 23:6379-91. 2004..Some recent epidemiological findings in endometrial and ovarian cancer suggest new avenues for possible chemoprevention of these cancers... - Epidemiology of soy exposures and breast cancer riskA H Wu
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9175, USA
Br J Cancer 98:9-14. 2008..8 and 0.15 mg per day, respectively. Thus, the evidence to date, based largely on case-control studies, suggest that soy food intake in the amount consumed in Asian populations may have protective effects against breast cancer... - Physical activity and breast cancer risk among Asian-American women in Los Angeles: a case-control studyDongyun Yang
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Cancer 97:2565-75. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the current study provide further support for the finding that physical activity has a protective role in breast cancer... - Occupational physical activity and risk of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and stomachCheryl Vigen
Department of Preventive Medicine, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9175, USA
Int J Cancer 118:1004-9. 2006..Future studies with more complete information on occupational and recreational physical activity are needed to confirm and further investigate the suggested protective effect of physical activity on these tumor types... - Progesterone and estrogen receptors in pregnant and premenopausal non-pregnant normal human breastDeShawn Taylor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 118:161-8. 2009..Short-term changes in PRA expression while the chemoprevention is being administered may be a more useful marker... - Perspectives on the soy-breast cancer relationMark Messina
Department of Nutrition, School of Public, Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1673S-1679S. 2009.... - Progesterone receptor variation and risk of ovarian cancer is limited to the invasive endometrioid subtype: results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium pooled analysisC L Pearce
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Br J Cancer 98:282-8. 2008..80, 95% CI 0.62-1.04, P=0.100). These data suggest that while these three variants in the PGR are not associated with ovarian cancer overall, the PROGINS variant may play a modest role in risk of endometrioid ovarian cancer... - Dense breast stromal tissue shows greatly increased concentration of breast epithelium but no increase in its proliferative activityDebra Hawes
Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Breast Cancer Res 8:R24. 2006..The increased breast cancer risk associated with increased mammographic densities may simply be a reflection of increased epithelial cell numbers. Why epithelium is concentrated in high CT density areas remains to be explained... - Consortium analysis of 7 candidate SNPs for ovarian cancerSusan J Ramus
Translational Research Laboratory, University College London EGA Institute for Women s Health, London, United Kingdom
Int J Cancer 123:380-8. 2008..These null results for SNPs identified from relatively large initial studies shows the importance of replicating associations by a consortium approach... - Recreational physical activity and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in a large cohort of US womenAlpa V Patel
Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA 30329 4251, USA
Cancer Causes Control 14:519-29. 2003..Our findings are consistent with other studies that show lower risk of postmenopausal breast cancer associated with regular physical activity... - Carbohydrates and colorectal cancer risk among Chinese in North AmericaMarilyn J Borugian
Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E6 Canada
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:187-93. 2002.... - Re: Beta-carotene and lung cancer: a lesson for future chemoprevention investigations?Daniel O Stram
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:E4. 2003 - Association of galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase activity and N314D genotype with the risk of ovarian cancerMarc T Goodman
Epidemiology Section, Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96813, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:693-701. 2002..42, 1.41). This study did not support the hypothesis that reduced galactose metabolism is a risk factor for ovarian cancer, although increased GALT activity attenuated the inverse association of oral contraceptive pill use with risk... - Segregation analysis of prostate cancer in 1,719 white, African-American and Asian-American families in the United States and CanadaGail Gong
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Health Research and Policy, CA 94305-5405, USA
Cancer Causes Control 13:471-82. 2002.... - Association of dairy products, lactose, and calcium with the risk of ovarian cancerMarc T Goodman
Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:148-57. 2002..003), although a nonsignificant inverse gradient in risk was also found in relation to calcium supplement intake. These results suggest that intake of low-fat milk, calcium, or lactose may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer... - A promoter polymorphism in the CASP8 gene is not associated with cancer riskChristopher A Haiman
Nat Genet 40:259-60; author reply 260-1. 2008 - Reproductive factors and epithelial ovarian cancer risk by histologic type: a multiethnic case-control studyKo-Hui Tung
Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96813, USA
Am J Epidemiol 158:629-38. 2003..Mucinous tumors, both borderline and invasive, were more common in Asian women than in Caucasian and other women. Our data suggest that histologic types of epithelial ovarian cancer are etiologically distinct... - Association of dietary vitamin A, carotenoids, and other antioxidants with the risk of ovarian cancerKo Hui Tung
Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:669-76. 2005..Questions still remain regarding the effects of confounding factors, such as menopause, tobacco smoking, and alcohol drinking, on the association between antioxidants and ovarian cancer development... - Effect of anovulation factors on pre- and postmenopausal ovarian cancer risk: revisiting the incessant ovulation hypothesisKo Hui Tung
Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:321-9. 2005.... - Urinary estrogen metabolites and their ratio among Asian American womenRoni T Falk
Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7234, Suite 7070, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 14:221-6. 2005..Our study suggests that the ratio of 2-OHE(1):16alpha-OHE(1) may be a marker for lifestyle influences on estrogen metabolism associated with westernization... - Tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms in cell cycle control genes and susceptibility to invasive epithelial ovarian cancerSimon A Gayther
Translational Research Laboratories, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Cancer Res 67:3027-35. 2007..This study highlights the need for multicenter collaborations for genetic association studies... - Risk of early-onset prostate cancer in relation to germ line polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptorIngrid Oakley-Girvan
Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, HRP Redwood Building, T204, Stanford, CA 94305 5405, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:1325-30. 2004..S. Whites. If the FokI association noted here were causal, this difference could account for some of the disease burden among African Americans and some of the excess risk in African Americans compared with Whites... - Aggregation of ovarian cancer with breast, ovarian, colorectal, and prostate cancer in first-degree relativesKo-Hui Tung
Cancer Etiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:750-8. 2004..Study findings suggest that ovarian cancer aggregates with several common cancers in family members... - Secondhand smoke exposure in adulthood and risk of lung cancer among never smokers: a pooled analysis of two large studiesPaul Brennan
International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Int J Cancer 109:125-31. 2004..Clear dose-response relationships consistent with a causal association were observed between exposure to secondhand smoke from spousal, workplace and social sources and the development of lung cancer among never smokers... - Prediagnostic C-peptide and risk of prostate cancerMarilyn J Borugian
Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 1L3
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2164-5. 2007 - Stage at diagnosis and survival in a multiethnic cohort of prostate cancer patientsIngrid Oakley-Girvan
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5405, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1753-9. 2003..3; 95% CI = 1.2, 4.7). CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the need for further investigation of factors that affect access to and use of health care among African Americans and Asian Americans... - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of esophageal and gastric adenocarcinomas in Los Angeles CountyLei Duan
Division of Population Sciences, City of Hope National Medical Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:126-34. 2008..Yet, data on potential confounding effects by upper gastrointestinal tract (UGI) disorders on adenocarcinomas of the UGI are limited... - Infertility, fertility drugs, and ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studiesRoberta B Ness
University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Am J Epidemiol 155:217-24. 2002..10, 2.71) and unknown cause of infertility (OR = 1.19, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.40) increased cancer risk. These data suggest a role for specific biologic causes of infertility, but not for fertility drugs in overall risk for ovarian cancer... - Prostate cancer risk in relation to insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein-3: a prospective multiethnic studyMarilyn J Borugian
Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:252-4. 2008
Research Grants
- DIETARY AND GENETIC DETERMINANTS OF MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITYAnna Wu; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..