Beth Jones

Summary

Affiliation: Yale University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Mammography screening in African American women: evaluating the research
    Beth A Jones
    Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
    Cancer 97:258-72. 2003
  2. ncbi Explaining the race difference in prostate cancer stage at diagnosis
    Beth A Jones
    Yale School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510 2084, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2825-34. 2008
  3. ncbi Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and survival in African-American and white colorectal cancer patients
    Beth A Jones
    Yale School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
    Cancer Epidemiol 33:249-56. 2009
  4. ncbi Adequacy of communicating results from screening mammograms to African American and White women
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Conn 06510 2084, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:531-8. 2007
  5. ncbi Inadequate follow-up of abnormal screening mammograms: findings from the race differences in screening mammography process study (United States)
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60, College Street, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
    Cancer Causes Control 16:809-21. 2005
  6. ncbi African-American/White differences in breast carcinoma: p53 alterations and other tumor characteristics
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510 2084, USA
    Cancer 101:1293-301. 2004
  7. ncbi Exercise improves body fat, lean mass, and bone mass in breast cancer survivors
    Melinda L Irwin
    Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1534-41. 2009
  8. ncbi Perceived racial discrimination and nonadherence to screening mammography guidelines: results from the race differences in the screening mammography process study
    Amy B Dailey
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 165:1287-95. 2007
  9. ncbi Long-term outcomes and clinicopathologic differences of African-American versus white patients treated with breast conservation therapy for early-stage breast cancer
    Meena S Moran
    Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8040, USA
    Cancer 113:2565-74. 2008
  10. ncbi A prospective study of perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and nonadherence to mammography screening guidelines in African American and White women ages 40 to 79 years
    Lisa Calvocoressi
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2096-105. 2004

Research Grants

  1. Cancer Screening Behavior in Hispanic/Latinas Living in the Northeast United Stat
    Beth Jones; Fiscal Year: 2009
  2. Cancer Screening Behavior in Hispanic/Latinas Living in the Northeast United Stat
    Beth A Jones; Fiscal Year: 2010

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Publications21

  1. ncbi Mammography screening in African American women: evaluating the research
    Beth A Jones
    Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
    Cancer 97:258-72. 2003
    ....
  2. ncbi Explaining the race difference in prostate cancer stage at diagnosis
    Beth A Jones
    Yale School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510 2084, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2825-34. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms and survival in African-American and white colorectal cancer patients
    Beth A Jones
    Yale School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
    Cancer Epidemiol 33:249-56. 2009
    ..The authors investigated the association between GST genotype and survival in a racially diverse, population-based cohort of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients followed for a median of 9.6 years...
  4. ncbi Adequacy of communicating results from screening mammograms to African American and White women
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Conn 06510 2084, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:531-8. 2007
    ..e., were adequately communicated). We also sought to determine whether the adequacy of communication was the same for normal and abnormal results...
  5. ncbi Inadequate follow-up of abnormal screening mammograms: findings from the race differences in screening mammography process study (United States)
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60, College Street, P O Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
    Cancer Causes Control 16:809-21. 2005
    ..Our objective was to identify factors associated with inadequate follow-up, and specifically, to determine if this outcome differed by race/ethnicity...
  6. ncbi African-American/White differences in breast carcinoma: p53 alterations and other tumor characteristics
    Beth A Jones
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510 2084, USA
    Cancer 101:1293-301. 2004
    ....
  7. ncbi Exercise improves body fat, lean mass, and bone mass in breast cancer survivors
    Melinda L Irwin
    Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1534-41. 2009
    ..043). In summary, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, produces favorable changes in body composition that may improve breast cancer prognosis...
  8. ncbi Perceived racial discrimination and nonadherence to screening mammography guidelines: results from the race differences in the screening mammography process study
    Amy B Dailey
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 165:1287-95. 2007
    ....
  9. ncbi Long-term outcomes and clinicopathologic differences of African-American versus white patients treated with breast conservation therapy for early-stage breast cancer
    Meena S Moran
    Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8040, USA
    Cancer 113:2565-74. 2008
    ..African-American (AA) and white patients with early-stage disease who were treated with breast conservation therapy (BCT) were examined to detect differences in clinicopathologic features and outcomes as a function of race...
  10. ncbi A prospective study of perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and nonadherence to mammography screening guidelines in African American and White women ages 40 to 79 years
    Lisa Calvocoressi
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 13:2096-105. 2004
    ....
  11. ncbi Prognostic significance of psychosocial factors in African-American and white breast cancer patients: a population-based study
    Hosanna Soler-Vila
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
    Cancer 98:1299-308. 2003
    ..Given the scarce data from racially/ethnically diverse populations, the authors investigated the prognostic significance of selected psychosocial variables in a cohort of African-American women and white women with breast cancer...
  12. ncbi Cancer-specific beliefs and survival in nonmetastatic colorectal cancer patients
    Hosanna Soler-Vila
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Leonard Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33136, USA
    Cancer 115:4270-82. 2009
    ..The relationship between beliefs and survival was investigated in a cohort of African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with newly diagnosed nonmetastatic CRC, followed for up to 15 years...
  13. ncbi Race/ethnicity and workplace discrimination: results of a national survey of physicians
    Marcella Nunez-Smith
    Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 24:1198-204. 2009
    ..Promoting racial/ethnic diversity within the physician workforce is a national priority. However, the extent of racial/ethnic discrimination reported by physicians from diverse backgrounds in today's health-care workplace is unknown...
  14. ncbi Cancer-specific beliefs and survival: a population-based study of African-American and White breast cancer patients
    Hosanna Soler-Vila
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
    Cancer Causes Control 16:105-14. 2005
    ..We investigated the relationship between cancer-specific beliefs and survival in a cohort of African-American and White women with newly diagnosed breast cancer followed for up to 15 years...
  15. ncbi Applying recursive partitioning to a prospective study of factors associated with adherence to mammography screening guidelines
    Lisa Calvocoressi
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 162:1215-24. 2005
    ..These findings suggest that recursive partitioning may be a useful statistical tool and may aid in developing interventions to promote adherence to mammography screening guidelines...
  16. ncbi Religion, race, and breast cancer survival
    Peter H Van Ness
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
    Int J Psychiatry Med 33:357-75. 2003
    ..The study investigated whether any of four measures of religiousness predicted longer survival for 145 African-American and 177 White women diagnosed with breast cancer in Connecticut between January 1987 and March 1989...
  17. ncbi Mammography screening of women in their 40s: impact of changes in screening guidelines
    Lisa Calvocoressi
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
    Cancer 112:473-80. 2008
    ....
  18. ncbi Recruiting and retaining breast cancer survivors into a randomized controlled exercise trial: the Yale Exercise and Survivorship Study
    Melinda L Irwin
    Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Cancer 112:2593-606. 2008
    ....
  19. ncbi Neighborhood-level socioeconomic predictors of nonadherence to mammography screening guidelines
    Amy B Dailey
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Florida School of Public Health and Health Professions, P O Box 100231, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2293-303. 2007
    ..67; neighborhood-level education OR, 2.31; 95% CI, 0.93-5.76]. The results of this analysis underscore the importance of examining neighborhood social context as well as individual factors in the study of mammography screening behavior...
  20. ncbi Does gender discrimination impact regular mammography screening? Findings from the race differences in screening mammography study
    Amy B Dailey
    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:195-206. 2008
    ..Life stressors, such as experiences of gender discrimination, may have considerable consequences, potentially influencing health prevention prioritization in women...
  21. ncbi Social epidemiology: towards a better understanding of the field
    Stanislav V Kasl
    Int J Epidemiol 31:1094-7. 2002

Research Grants3

  1. Cancer Screening Behavior in Hispanic/Latinas Living in the Northeast United Stat
    Beth Jones; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..g., later age at first birth), and as they reach the ages in which breast cancer risk increases for all women. ..
  2. Cancer Screening Behavior in Hispanic/Latinas Living in the Northeast United Stat
    Beth A Jones; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..g., later age at first birth), and as they reach the ages in which breast cancer risk increases for all women. ..