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Prevalence and clustering of metabolic risk factors for type 2 diabetes among Chinese adults in Shanghai, ChinaHe Xu
Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
BMC Public Health 10:683. 2010..Type 2 diabetes is becoming an epidemic in China. To evaluate the prevalence, clustering of metabolic risk factors and their impact on type 2 diabetes, we conducted a population-based study in Shanghai, China's largest metropolitan area...
Helicobacter pylori infection on the risk of stomach cancer and chronic atrophic gastritisZ F Zhang
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 23:357-67. 1999..pylori infection in high-risk populations...- Marijuana use and increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neckZ F Zhang
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 8:1071-8. 1999..The results need to be interpreted with some caution in drawing causal inferences because of certain methodological limitations, especially with regard to interactions... - Environmental tobacco smoking, mutagen sensitivity, and head and neck squamous cell carcinomaZ F Zhang
Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 9:1043-9. 2000..Our results need to be interpreted with caution because of potential residual confounding effects of active tobacco smoking and other methodological limitations. Future large-scale studies are warranted to confirm our findings... - Dietary boron intake and prostate cancer riskYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Oncol Rep 11:887-92. 2004..0525). The observed association should be interpreted with caution because of the small case sample size and the nature of the cross-sectional study design, but deserve further investigation... - Polymorphism of Xeroderma Pigmentosum group G and the risk of lung cancer and squamous cell carcinomas of the oropharynx, larynx and esophagusYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Int J Cancer 118:714-20. 2006..7, 38). In conclusion, our study suggests that the XPG Asp1104Asp genotype may be associated with decreased susceptibility to lung cancer and SCCOLE... - Dietary selenium intake and genetic polymorphisms of the GSTP1 and p53 genes on the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinomaLin Cai
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, 71 225 CHS, Box 951772, 650 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:294-300. 2006..49-8.66 for smokers and 6.19; 95% CI, 1.83-20.9 for drinkers). Our study suggests that the effect of dietary selenium on the risk of ESCC may be modulated by tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and p53 Pro/Pro and GSTP1 Ile/Ile genotypes... - Single nucleotide polymorphisms of 8 inflammation-related genes and their associations with smoking-related cancersSam S Oh
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 127:2169-82. 2010.... - Associations between NBS1 polymorphisms, haplotypes and smoking-related cancersSungshim L Park
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, 71 225 CHS, Box 951772, 650 Charles E Young Drive, South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Carcinogenesis 31:1264-71. 2010..These hypotheses should be further examined in functional studies... - Associations between variants of the 8q24 chromosome and nine smoking-related cancer sitesSungshim Lani Park
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health, 71 225 CHS, Box 951772, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:3193-202. 2008..Functional and large epidemiologic studies should be conducted to further investigate the association of 8q24 SNPs with smoking-related cancers... - Body mass index change in adulthood and lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancersHeather P Tarleton
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Int J Cancer 131:1407-16. 2012..The observed inverse associations between adulthood BMI gain and lung and UADT cancers indicate a potential role for body weight-related biological pathways in the development of lung and UADT cancers... - Tobacco smoking, GSTP1 polymorphism, and bladder carcinomaWei Cao
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Cancer 104:2400-8. 2005..GSTP1 may play a role in detoxification of tobacco-related carcinogens... - Glutathione S-transferase P1 Ile105Val polymorphism, cigarette smoking and prostate cancerGloria E Mao
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 28:368-74. 2004..52 (95% CI: 1.07-19.17). To our knowledge, this is the first time that a potential effect modification by the GSTP1 Ile/Ile genotype on smoking and the risk of prostate cancer is suggested... - Allium vegetables and stomach cancer risk in ChinaVeronica Wendy Setiawan
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 6:387-95. 2005..never) and risk of stomach cancer in Qingdao (OR=0.30; 95% CI: 0.12-0.77). Our results confirm protective effects of allium vegetables (especially garlic and onions) against stomach cancer... - Green tea inhibits cycolooxygenase-2 in non-small cell lung cancer cells through the induction of Annexin-1Qing Yi Lu
Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 427:725-30. 2012..Our study may provide a new mechanism of GTE on the prevention of lung cancer and other diseases related to inflammation... - Decreased retinoid X receptor-alpha protein expression in basal cells occurs in the early stage of human prostate cancer developmentGloria E Mao
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:383-90. 2004..These findings suggest that chemoprevention strategies with retinoids may be most effective if applied during the early stages of transformation... - Recreational drug use and risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV- and HHV-8-coinfected homosexual menChun Chao
Department of Epidemiology and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles, 650 Charles E Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 25:149-56. 2009..46 (1.01-2.13)]. However, no clear dose-response relationship was observed. These findings do not support a biological association between use of these substances and KS development in HIV- and HHV-8-coinfected homosexual men... 
Dietary flavonoid intake and lung cancer--a population-based case-control studyYan Cui
Office of Health Assessment and Epidemiology, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer 112:2241-8. 2008..To investigate the associations between commonly consumed flavonoid compounds and lung cancer, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study of 558 lung cancer cases and a group of 837 controls...- A case-control study of the association of the polymorphisms and haplotypes of DNA ligase I with lung and upper-aerodigestive-tract cancersYuan Chin Amy Lee
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Int J Cancer 122:1630-8. 2008..We observed weaker associations between the LIG1 haplotypes and UADT cancers. Our findings suggest the LIG1 haplotypes may affect the risk of lung and UADT cancers... - P53 Codon 72 polymorphisms: a case-control study of gastric cancer and potential interactionsJames Sul
Clinical Instructor, Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, 44 138 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1684, USA
Cancer Lett 238:210-23. 2006.... - Cytochrome p450 2E1 polymorphisms and the risk of gastric cardia cancerLin Cai
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, 71 225 CHS, Box 951772, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
World J Gastroenterol 11:1867-71. 2005..In this hospital-based case-control study, we evaluate the relationship between genetic polymorphisms of CYP2E1 and the risk of GCC... - Alcohol consumption and cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx from 1988 to 2009: an updateBinh Y Goldstein
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Eur J Cancer Prev 19:431-65. 2010..A large number of studies on joint exposure to alcohol and tobacco consumption show a greater than multiplicative synergistic effect... - A comparison of ad hoc methods to account for non-cancer AIDS and deaths as competing risks when estimating the effect of HAART on incident cancer AIDS among HIV-infected menMeredith S Shiels
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 63:459-67. 2010.... - A joint effect of new Western diet and retinoid X receptor α prostate-specific knockout with development of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia in mice--a preliminary studyGloria E Mao
Center for Human Nutrition, UCLA School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prostate 72:1052-9. 2012..This study was to determine the effect of diet in RXRα knockout mice in developing high-grade prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (mPIN)... - Air pollution and case fatality of SARS in the People's Republic of China: an ecologic studyYan Cui
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Environ Health 2:15. 2003..SARS case fatality has varied across geographical areas, which might be partially explained by air pollution level... - Green tea induces annexin-I expression in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells: involvement of annexin-I in actin remodelingQing Yi Lu
Department of Medicine, Center for Human Nutrition, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1732, USA
Lab Invest 87:456-65. 2007..Together, annexin-I plays an important role in GTE-induced actin remodeling, and it may serve as a potential molecular target associated with the anticancer activities of green tea... - Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes, smoking, and bladder cancer risk: findings from the international consortium of bladder cancerMariana C Stern
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Cancer Res 69:6857-64. 2009..002) and was strongest for the highest levels of smoking dose and smoking duration. Overall, our study provides the strongest evidence to date for a role of common variants in DNA repair genes in bladder carcinogenesis... - Associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms in double-stranded DNA repair pathway genes and familial breast cancerMary E Sehl
Divisions of Hematology and Oncology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Clin Cancer Res 15:2192-203. 2009..DNA damage recognition and repair play a major role in risk for breast cancer. We investigated 104 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in 17 genes whose protein products are involved in double-stranded break repair (DSBR)... - Recreational drug use and T lymphocyte subpopulations in HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected menChun Chao
Department of Epidemiology and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 94:165-71. 2008..These results indicate that use of these substances does not adversely affect the numbers and percentages of circulating CD4 or CD8 T cells in either HIV-uninfected or -infected MSM... - Body size, adult BMI gain and endometrial cancer risk: the multiethnic cohortSungshim Lani Park
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Int J Cancer 126:490-9. 2010..In conclusion, adult obesity and increase in adiposity are risk factors for endometrial cancer; and the risk associated with these factors may vary across racial/ethnic groups... - Serum levels of the chemokine CXCL13, genetic variation in CXCL13 and its receptor CXCR5, and HIV-associated non-hodgkin B-cell lymphoma riskShehnaz K Hussain
Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 22:295-307. 2013.... - Incidence and epidemiology of anal cancer in the multicenter AIDS cohort studyGypsyamber D'Souza
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:491-9. 2008..To examine the incidence and risk factors for anal cancer in a multicenter cohort of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men followed between 1984 and 2006 (Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study)... - Genetic variation in immune regulation and DNA repair pathways and stomach cancer in ChinaShehnaz K Hussain
Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1772, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 18:2304-9. 2009..45; 95% CI, 0.20-1.04) were associated with reduced stomach cancer risk. In conclusion, PTGS2 and ERCC5 were associated with stomach cancer risk in a Chinese population... - Plasma Hepatitis C Virus Viral Load Among Hepatitis C Virus Mono-Infected and HCV/HIV Co-Infected Individuals in Yunnan Province,ChinaXing Liu
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, the Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Hepat Mon 12:453-9. 2012..However, the impact of HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART) on HCV viral load which is usually regarded as a predictor of liver disease progress had not been well studied in this country... - Body mass index, tobacco chewing, alcohol drinking and the risk of oral submucous fibrosis in Kerala, IndiaMia Hashibe
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA
Cancer Causes Control 13:55-64. 2002..Our results indicated that alcohol drinking might be a moderate risk factor and confirmed the previous observation that chewing tobacco was a strong risk factor for oral submucous fibrosis... - Protective effects of plasma carotenoids on the risk of bladder cancerRayjean J Hung
Department of Epidemiology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Urol 176:1192-7. 2006..1) in smokers with lower zeaxanthin. CONCLUSIONS: Our results show protective effects of carotenoids on bladder cancer. They suggest that bladder cancer may be a preventable disease through nutritional intervention, especially in smokers... - Cancer burden and trends in the Asian Pacific Rim regionBinh H Yang
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, CA 90095-1772, USA
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 5:96-117. 2004.... - Dietary glycemic load and risk of colorectal cancer in the Women's Health StudySusan Higginbotham
Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:229-33. 2004..09, 95% CI = 1.13 to 3.87; P(trend) =.08) were also statistically significantly associated with increased risk. Thus, our data indicate that a diet with a high dietary glycemic load may increase the risk of colorectal cancer in women... - Comparison of bladder cancer survival among Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian and Caucasian populations in the United StatesMia Hashibe
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 4:267-73. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Japanese and Chinese bladder cancer patients had higher overall survival rates than Caucasians, while Filipino and Hawaiian patients had lower survival than Caucasians... - Radiotherapy for primary thyroid cancer as a risk factor for second primary cancersShu-Chun Chuang
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 71-225 CHS, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cancer Lett 238:42-52. 2006..Radiation therapy for adult patients with thyroid cancer might be associated with a reduced risk of second primary thyroid cancer... - Marijuana smoking and head and neck cancerMia Hashibe
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, 90095-1772, USA
J Clin Pharmacol 42:103S-107S. 2002..It will also be of interest to examine potential field cancerization of the upper aerodigestive tract by marijuana and to explore marijuana as a risk factor for oral premalignant lesions... - [A case-control study on the relationship between methyl-tetra-hydrofolic acid reductase 677 gene polymorphism and the risk of stomach cancer]Li Na Mu
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 25:495-8. 2004..To explore the relationship between methyl-tetra-hydrofolic acid (MTHFR) 677 gene polymorphism and the risk of stomach cancer... - Lung cancer risk in white and black AmericansSteven D Stellman
American Health Foundation, One Dana Road, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Ann Epidemiol 13:294-302. 2003.... - Risk factors for the gastric cardia cancer: a case-control study in Fujian ProvinceLin Cai
Department of Epidemiology, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350004, Fujian Province, China
World J Gastroenterol 9:214-8. 2003..We therefore conducted a case-control study in Fujian province, China, to investigate the potential risk and protective factors of this disease... - Green tea drinking and multigenetic index on the risk of stomach cancer in a Chinese populationLi-na Mu
Department of Epidemiology, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China
Int J Cancer 116:972-83. 2005..31 (95% CI = 0.88-6.03). The protective effect of green tea drinking was observed on the risk of stomach cancer and the possible effect modification by susceptibility genes was suggested... - [A case-control study on drinking green tea and decreasing risk of cancers in the alimentary canal among cigarette smokers and alcohol drinkers]Li-na Mu
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 24:192-5. 2003.... - Association of smoking, alcohol drinking and dietary factors with esophageal cancer in high- and low-risk areas of Jiangsu Province, ChinaMing Wu
Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu Province, China
World J Gastroenterol 12:1686-93. 2006..CONCLUSION: The environmental risk factors, together with genetic factors and gene-environmental interactions might be the main reason for this high-risk gradient in Jiangsu Province, China... - NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) Pro187Ser polymorphism and the risk of lung, bladder, and colorectal cancers: a meta-analysisChun Chao
Gene Environment Epidemiology Group, IARC, 150, cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:979-87. 2006..Such effects of the NQO1 polymorphism seem to be modified by ethnicity and smoking status... - Oral contraceptive and IUD use and endometrial cancer: a population-based case-control study in Shanghai, ChinaMeng Hua Tao
Department of Medicine, Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
Int J Cancer 119:2142-7. 2006..53 (95% CI = 0.43-0.65). A reduction in risk was observed regardless the duration of use or age at first and last use. These results suggest that OC and IUD use may confer long-term protection against endometrial cancer... - Dietary mineral and trace element intake and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in a Chinese populationHua Lu
Department of Epidemiology, Fujian Medical University, Fujian, Fuzhou, China
Nutr Cancer 55:63-70. 2006..Our results suggested that the potential joint effect of zinc and selenium might contribute to SCCE risk. Increased dietary intake of selenium and zinc may decrease the risk of SCCE in a low-selenium area of China... - Cytochrome P450 1B1 and catechol-O-methyltransferase genetic polymorphisms and endometrial cancer risk in Chinese womenMeng Hua Tao
Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, 6009 Medical Center East, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8300, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2570-3. 2006 - Dietary selenium intake, aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 and X-ray repair cross-complementing 1 genetic polymorphisms, and the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinomaLin Cai
Department of Epidemiology, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Cancer 106:2345-54. 2006..To the authors' knowledge, few studies have been conducted to date regarding dietary selenium and the potential gene-nutrient interactions with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in different pathways on the risk of esophageal cancer... - Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T and A1298C polymorphisms and the risk of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a Chinese populationLi Na Mu
Department of Epidemiology, Fudan University School of Public Health, Shanghai, China
Cancer Causes Control 18:665-75. 2007..The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of polymorphisms of the MTHFR gene on the risk of primary liver cancer and their possible effect modifications on various environmental risk factors... - Polymorphisms in the CYP19A1 (aromatase) gene and endometrial cancer risk in Chinese womenMeng Hua Tao
Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 1738, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:943-9. 2007..In summary, our data show that polymorphisms in the CYP19A1 gene may contribute to endometrial carcinogenesis... - [Study on the protective effect of green tea on gastric, liver and esophageal cancers]Li-na Mu
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 37:171-3. 2003..CONCLUSION: Green tea drinking might be a protective factor for gastric cancer. However, the protective effects of green tea on liver and esophageal cancer were not obvious... - Incidences and trends of second cancers in female breast cancer patients: a fixed inception cohort-based analysis (United States)Guo Pei Yu
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Service, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 310 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:411-20. 2006..To determine incidences and time trends of second cancers among female breast cancer patients... - Biomarker analysis on breast ductal lavage cells in women with and without breast cancerWei Zhang
Department of Tumor Marker Center, Cancer Institute/Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Int J Cancer 119:359-64. 2006..Further studies are warranted to determine the value of these biomarkers in prospective trials... - Alcohol drinking in never users of tobacco, cigarette smoking in never drinkers, and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology ConsortiumMia Hashibe
Gene Environment Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008 Lyon, France
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:777-89. 2007.... - Mutations in TP53, but not FGFR3, in urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder are influenced by smoking: contribution of exogenous versus endogenous carcinogensHerve Wallerand
EMI INSERM 03 37 and Service d Urologie, Universite Paris XII, AP HP, Hopital Henri Mondor, 94000 Creteil, France
Carcinogenesis 26:177-84. 2005..In contrast, FGFR3 mutations are not affected by smoking and probably result from endogenous alterations. These data have potential implications for clinical management and prevention strategies... - Annexin-I as a potential target for green tea extract induced actin remodelingGui Shan Xiao
Department of Clinic Molecular Pharmacology, Comprehensive Cancer Center at City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
Int J Cancer 120:111-20. 2007..Together, GTE induced annexin-I expression plays a role in regulating actin remodeling and decreased annexin-I expression is a common event in early stage of bladder cancer development... - Risk factors for multiple oral premalignant lesionsGigi Thomas
Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India
Int J Cancer 107:285-91. 2003..9, 95%CI=0.5-1.7). The results suggest that tobacco chewing was the most important risk factor for multiple oral premalignant lesions and may be a major source of field cancerization on the oral epithelium in the Indian population... - Marijuana use and the risk of lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancers: results of a population-based case-control studyMia Hashibe
IARC, Lyon, France
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1829-34. 2006.... - Mutational spectra of p53 in geographically localized esophageal squamous cell carcinoma groups in ChinaWei Cao
Department of Pathology, Xinxiang Medical College, Xinxiang, Henan, People's Republic of China
Cancer 101:834-44. 2004..The overexpression of p53 protein may have significance as a prognostic factor for patients with esophageal carcinoma... - Sociodemographic status, stress, and risk of prostate cancer. A prospective cohort studyNaja Rod Nielsen
National Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ann Epidemiol 17:498-502. 2007..We aim to assess if socioeconomic status, stress, and marital status are associated with prostate cancer risk in a population with free access to health care... - Betel quid without tobacco as a risk factor for oral precancersBinu J Jacob
Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum 695011, India
Oral Oncol 40:697-704. 2004..In conclusion, our study supports the hypothesis that chewing betel quid without tobacco elevates the risks of various oral precancers... - Epidemiologic review of marijuana use and cancer riskMia Hashibe
International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69008 Lyon, France
Alcohol 35:265-75. 2005..Despite the challenges, elucidation of the association between marijuana use and cancer risk is important in weighing the benefits and risks of medical marijuana use and to clarify the impact of marijuana use on public health...
Research Grants
- MARIJUANA USE AND THE RISKS OF LUNG AND OTHER CANCERSZuo Feng Zhang; Fiscal Year: 2003..g., passive smoking); clinical factors (e.g., depression and family history of cancer); diet and other behaviors (e.g., fruits, vegetables, fats, and supplements); and sociodemographic factors (e.g., SES). ..
- Molecular Epidemiology and Gene-Environment InteractionZuo Feng Zhang; Fiscal Year: 2004..abstract_text> ..
- Cancer Epidemiology Training ProgramZuo Feng Zhang; Fiscal Year: 2006..Graduates of the program currently hold academic positions at leading universities and research institutions. ..