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Racial differences in the familial aggregation of breast cancer and other female cancersMichael S Simon
Division of Haematology and Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, 4100 John R, 4221 Hudson, Weber Cancer Research Building, Detroit, M1 48201, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 89:227-35. 2005..17 (1.22-3.85). In conclusion, these racially distinct aggregation patterns may reflect different modes of inheritance and/or environmental factors that impact cancer risk...- Hormone replacement therapy regimens and breast cancer risk(1)Linda K Weiss
Population Studies and Prevention Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Obstet Gynecol 100:1148-58. 2002..Progestin administered in an uninterrupted regimen may be a contributing factor. Risk dissipates once use is discontinued... - A comparison of record linkage yield for health research using different variable setsMichael S Simon
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University School, 4th Floor Hudson Webber Cancer Research Center, 4100 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 89:107-10. 2005..Five of seven matches identified by SSN were not confirmed by manual review. SSN appears to be fairly accurate for linkage and can be valuable for linking cancer registries to other data sources... 
Estrogen plus progestin and colorectal cancer incidence and mortalityMichael S Simon
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Hudson Webber Cancer Research Building, 4221 HWCRC, 4100 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Clin Oncol 30:3983-90. 2012..To assess the clinical relevance of the findings, analyses of the influence of combined hormone therapy on colorectal cancer incidence and colorectal cancer mortality were conducted after extended follow-up...- Do thyroid disorders increase the risk of breast cancer?Michael S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:1574-8. 2002..There was no statistical interaction between thyroid disorders, thyroid treatments, and race, menopausal status, or parity. We found no association between thyroid disorders or their associated treatments and the risk of breast cancer... - Racial differences in breast cancer survival in the Detroit Metropolitan areaMichael S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 97:149-55. 2006.... - Breast cancer risk estimates for relatives of white and African American women with breast cancer in the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences StudyMichael S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:2498-504. 2006..The purpose of this report is to update breast cancer risk estimates associated with a family history of breast cancer for white and AA women... 
Glycemic index, glycemic load, and the risk of pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal women in the women's health initiative observational study and clinical trialM S Simon
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University, 4100 John R, 4221, HWCRC, Detroit, MI, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:2129-36. 2010..Several reports have suggested that conditions associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, such as diets high in carbohydrates, may influence the risk of pancreatic cancer, although results from prior studies have been mixed...- Racial differences in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in the Women's Health InitiativeMichael S Simon
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Oncology, Detroit, MI, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:1368-78. 2011..The women's health initiative (WHI) study sample was used to determine whether differences in CRC risk factors explain racial/ethnic differences in incidence and mortality... - Comparison of dietary assessment methods in a low-fat dietary intervention programM S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Nutr Cancer 40:108-17. 2001..67). Traditional correlation testing may overestimate the extent of agreement in dietary instruments among women on a low-fat diet. We found empirical support for the nontraditional method... - Prospective analysis of association between use of statins or other lipid-lowering agents and colorectal cancer riskMichael S Simon
Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Ann Epidemiol 22:17-27. 2012..To determine whether 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A inhibitors (statins) are associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer... - Recruitment for a pilot case control study of oxidative DNA damage and breast cancer riskM S Simon
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 23:283-7. 2000..5), p < 0.001. Overall, these results suggest a possible slight increase in breast cancer risk among women in the highest ODD quartile, after adjusting for race, menopausal status, and family history of breast cancer... - Factors associated with breast cancer clinical trials participation and enrollment at a large academic medical centerMichael S Simon
Hudson Webber Cancer Research Building, 4th Floor, 4100 John R St, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:2046-52. 2004..The practice patterns of medical oncologists at a large National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in Detroit, MI were evaluated to better understand factors associated with accrual to breast cancer clinical trials... - Follow-up among women with an abnormal mammogram in an HMO: is it complete, timely, and efficient?R C Burack
Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Am J Manag Care 6:1102-13. 2000..To describe the extent to which women with seriously abnormal mammograms complete indicated follow-up, the timeliness of this follow-up, and variations in the pattern of use of diagnostic procedures... - A randomized trial of a low-fat dietary intervention in women at high risk for breast cancerM S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Nutr Cancer 27:136-42. 1997..More in-depth analyses of these data will be presented in subsequent reports... - Radial bone density and breast cancer risk in white and African-American womenD A Nelson
Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Osteoporos Int 15:535-40. 2004..The present study extends the association between bone mass and breast cancer risk to African-Americans, and suggests another potential application for bone density testing... - Racial disparities in treatment and survival of women with stage I-III breast cancer at a large academic medical center in metropolitan DetroitWei Du
Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 91:243-8. 2005..Our findings support the theory that equal treatments produce equal outcomes. Improvement in screening may have an important impact on survival among minority women with breast cancer... - Racial differences in cervical cancer survival in the Detroit metropolitan areaSujana Movva
Department of Internal Medicine, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Michigan State University, Flint, Michigan, USA
Cancer 112:1264-71. 2008..The objective of this study was to examine the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) and other variables on racial disparities in overall survival among women with invasive cervical cancer... - Methods to increase fruit and vegetable intake with and without a decrease in fat intake: compliance and effects on body weight in the nutrition and breast health studyZora Djuric
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Nutr Cancer 43:141-51. 2002..Maintenance of energy intake, therefore, did not appear to be attained intrinsically when individuals were counseled to make changes in the composition of their diets... - The effect of patient reminders on the use of screening mammography in an urban health department primary care settingM S Simon
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 65:63-70. 2001..In conclusion, letters targeted at women due for screening mammograms did not have a beneficial effect on mammography utilization above and beyond that of a physician medical record reminder... - Infertility drugs and the risk of breast cancer: findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences StudyRonald T Burkman
National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Registry, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Fertil Steril 79:844-51. 2003..To determine the association between infertility drug use and invasive breast cancer in a population-based case-control study... - Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome : the impact of race on uptake of genetic counseling and testingMichael S Simon
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Methods Mol Biol 471:487-500. 2009..It is important for future research to focus on ways in which to eliminate barriers to GC and GT to alleviate disparity in the use of genetic services among high-risk AA women... - Risk perception and cancer worries in families at increased risk of familial breast/ovarian cancerSuzanne Mellon
College of Health Professions, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan 48221 3038, USA
Psychooncology 17:756-66. 2008.... - Predictors of decision making in families at risk for inherited breast/ovarian cancerSuzanne Mellon
College of Health Professions, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI 48221 3038, USA
Health Psychol 28:38-47. 2009..The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with decision making about inherited cancer risk information within families and determine the interdependence between survivors' and relatives' decision making... - An educational video to increase clinical trials enrollment among breast cancer patientsWei Du
Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Breast Cancer Res Treat 117:339-47. 2009..Future studies should focus on designing a new educational video to specifically target cultural and attitudinal barriers in the AA population to more effectively change attitudes and increase trial enrollment... - Racial differences in colorectal cancer survival in the Detroit Metropolitan AreaBen Yan
Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Cancer 115:3791-800. 2009..The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of demographics, clinical factors, and socioeconomic status (SES) on racial disparities in colorectal cancer survival in the Detroit Metropolitan Area... - An educational video to increase clinical trials enrollment among lung cancer patientsWei Du
Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Children s Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien, Room 3N47, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
J Thorac Oncol 3:23-9. 2008..A randomized trial was conducted to test the effect of an educational video on positively changing patients' knowledge and attitudes regarding clinical trials and thereby increasing enrollment rates... - Predictors of enrollment in lung cancer clinical trialsWei Du
Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Cancer 106:420-5. 2006..Only approximately 5% of patients with newly diagnosed cancer participate in clinical trials nationwide, and African-American (AA) patients are particularly under-represented... - Efficacy and economics of hormonal therapies for advanced breast cancerMichael S Simon
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University, Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Drugs Aging 19:453-63. 2002..Additional work needs to be done looking at a comparison of the efficacy and costs of the aromatase inhibitors relative to the currently recommended hormonal treatments used for women with metastatic breast cancer... - Meta-analysis of survival in African American and white American patients with breast cancer: ethnicity compared with socioeconomic statusLisa A Newman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Clin Oncol 24:1342-9. 2006.... - Association of regimens of hormone replacement therapy to prognostic factors among women diagnosed with breast cancer aged 50-64 yearsJanet R Daling
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, Washington 98109 1024, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 12:1175-81. 2003.... - Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancerPolly A Marchbanks
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
N Engl J Med 346:2025-32. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Among women from 35 to 64 years of age, current or former oral-contraceptive use was not associated with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer... - Combined effect of oral contraceptive use and hormone replacement therapy on breast cancer risk in postmenopausal womenSandra A Norman
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Cancer Causes Control 14:933-43. 2003..We examined breast cancer risk related to lifetime exposure to oral contraceptives (OCs) and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in postmenopausal women... - Reproductive factors and risk of breast carcinoma in a study of white and African-American womenGiske Ursin
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Cancer 101:353-62. 2004.... - Alcohol exposure and breast cancer: results of the women's contraceptive and reproductive experiences studyJill A McDonald
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health, 4770 Buford Highway Northeast, MS-K22, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2106-16. 2004..Further work is needed to explain how alcohol exposure, sex hormones, and tumor receptor status interact... - Changes in food sources of dietary fat in response to an intensive low-fat dietary intervention: early results from the Women's Health InitiativeRuth E Patterson
Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 103:454-60. 2003..To evaluate changes in food sources of dietary fat made by participants in the Women's Health Initiative Low-Fat Dietary Modification Trial... - Lifetime recreational exercise activity and breast cancer risk among black women and white womenLeslie Bernstein
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 97:1671-9. 2005.... - Relation of regimens of combined hormone replacement therapy to lobular, ductal, and other histologic types of breast carcinomaJanet R Daling
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Cancer 95:2455-64. 2002..However, the use of combined (estrogen and progestin) hormone replacement therapy (CHRT) also has increased during the last decade and may account in part for the increase in invasive lobular breast carcinoma... - Projecting individualized absolute invasive breast cancer risk in African American womenMitchell H Gail
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South Rm 8032, Bethesda, MD 20892 7244, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1782-92. 2007..We developed a model for projecting absolute risk of invasive breast cancer in African American women and compared its projections with those from the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool... - Timing of menarche and first full-term birth in relation to breast cancer riskChristopher I Li
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:230-9. 2008..The authors conclude that the interval between age at menarche and age at first birth is associated with the risk of hormonally sensitive types of breast cancer, particularly among White women... - Risk of breast cancer associated with short-term use of oral contraceptivesSuzanne G Folger
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:189-98. 2007..To estimate breast cancer risk associated with short-term (<6 months) oral contraceptive use, and explore variation in estimates by use characteristics and medical, menstrual, and reproductive history... - Prevalence and predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in a population-based study of breast cancer in white and black American women ages 35 to 64 yearsKathleen E Malone
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
Cancer Res 66:8297-308. 2006.... - The NICHD Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences Study: methods and operational resultsPolly A Marchbanks
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Ann Epidemiol 12:213-21. 2002..5% and 78.6%, respectively, with lower rates for black women and older women. CONCLUSIONS: The methodologic details of this large collaboration may assist researchers conducting similar investigations... - Absence of an effect of injectable and implantable progestin-only contraceptives on subsequent risk of breast cancerBrian L Strom
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 824 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Contraception 69:353-60. 2004..This study does not support an increased risk of breast cancer associated with the use of injectable or implantable progestin-only contraceptives in women aged 35 to 64... - Relationship between established breast cancer risk factors and risk of seven different histologic types of invasive breast cancerChristopher I Li
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, M4 C308, P O Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109 1024, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:946-54. 2006.... - Childbearing and survival after breast carcinoma in young womenBeth A Mueller
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cancer 98:1131-40. 2003..The authors measured relative mortality among young patients with breast carcinoma with and without births occurring after diagnosis...