Sentences with phrase «cancer epidemiology»

Afterwards she completed a fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health where she continued her research on diet and cancer.

Nevertheless, says lead study author Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, «The Nordic countries are a good model for studying the association» due to broad early adoption of the technology and thorough medical records.

This analysis of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is by Dr Aurora Perez - Cornago, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues.

«HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world, and is a risk factor for several cancers, including cervical, vaginal, vulvar, oropharyngeal [throat / tonsil], anal, and penile cancer,» says Eduardo L. Franco, Professor and Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at McGill University.

More recently, the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention published research from 2008 which found very high levels of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in processed dry yerba mate leaves and in both hot and cold infusions of mate.

Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine Director, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center Chief, Division of Epidemiology

In order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United States.

Next, she and Weinstein wrote a conceptual paper that would become the founding document of molecular cancer epidemiology.

Brian Druker, director of the Oregon Health and Science University's Knight Cancer Institute, said it provided a data framework «to understand much of what we already know about cancer epidemiology.»

«Cigarette smoking is pervasive all over the world, and arsenic exposure on top of it creates a major public health problem,» said Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, Professor and Director of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at the University of Chicago Medical Center and senior author of the study.

Interaction between tobacco and alcohol use and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium.

She is an epidemiologist who received her undergraduate degree in biomedical science and master's degree in public health from Charles Darwin University, and recently received her PhD in cancer epidemiology from the University of Sydney.

One of these studies from Uruguay and published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention in 2003 found a 300 % increased risk of esophageal cancer for the mate drinkers within a group of approximately 800 adults.

«We are trying to identify new «spelling mistakes,» or variants in the genetic code, that may influence a woman's risk for ovarian cancer,» said co - investigator Jenny Permuth Wey, PhD, an applied research scientist in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology at Moffitt Cancer Center.

She also studied lifestyle change and cancer at Weill Cornell Medical College and completed a fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology at Columbia University.

Another study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention followed nearly 400,000 people for up to 16 years, and found that a higher intake of beta - cryptoxanthin also reduced the risk of lung cancer by more than 30 percent.

In response to a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, American Beverage Association consultant Dr. Richard Adamson, former director of the Division of Cancer Etiology, National Cancer Institute, issued the following statement:

«Mothers who don't discuss their results with their kids are relatively less satisfied and feel more conflicted,» says Kenneth Tercyak, director of behavioral prevention research at Georgetown Lombardi and lead author of the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

Dependence was strongly associated with beliefs about physical appearance and depressive symptoms., outlines in a new report published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

«Because resource availability varies widely, both among and within countries, we need to adjust strategies to improve access to HPV vaccination everywhere,» said Silvia de Sanjosé, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Expert Panel that developed the guideline and head of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at Institut Català d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

«Interleukins have important roles in regulating cell growth, cell death and in the activation of the immune system,» explained Matthew Schabath, Ph.D., assistant member of the Cancer Epidemiology Program at Moffitt.

The results were published online August 10 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

This year the findings are published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention as well as in a standalone consumer publication Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts & Figures.

Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infections were more common among men who had female partners with oral and / or genital HPV infection, suggesting that the transmission of HPV occurs via oral - oral and oral - genital routes, according to a McGill University study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

A decrease in the amount of time spent eating and an increase in overnight fasting reduces glucose levels and may reduce the risk of breast cancer among women, report University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Their findings, published today in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention: Women who said they had been diagnosed with migraines at least once in their lives were 30 percent less likely to have developed invasive breast cancer.

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20892, USA.

Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Performing vigorous physical activity over one's lifetime may lower risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), researchers report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research

«Family history now matters more than ever,» says Stephen Chanock, a pediatric oncologist and head of the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland.

The results of this study were published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention on Sept. 21, 2016.

Lung cancer patients with comorbid conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, or congestive heart failure had a higher risk of death than lung cancer patients without comorbid conditions, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Nine years after diagnosis, 9.3 percent of U.S. cancer survivors were current smokers and 83 percent of these individuals were daily smokers who averaged 14.7 cigarettes per day, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

To better understand the relationship between Hodgkin lymphoma treatments and subsequent stomach cancer risk, Lindsay M. Morton, Ph.D., NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, and her colleagues analyzed data from the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United States and Canada.

The study, «Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence Associated with Carbohydrate Intake and Tissue Expression of IGFI Receptor,» will appear in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention.

Perera's paper in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention linked the chromosomal aberrations, which were somewhat higher than normal, to air pollution: On average, the higher the hydrocarbons in the mothers» air, the more frequent the abnormalities seen in the infants» chromosomes.

The study on HPV vaccination recommendations and young men was published July 15 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

[1] Dr Toral Gathani is a clinical epidemiologist in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and also a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

She and her colleagues from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit analysed data from over 68,000 women with breast cancer registered in England between 2006 - 2013 — 66,192 in White women, 1,233 in South Asian women and 641 in Black women.

«It's really taking my research interests in a whole new direction,» says Russell McBride, a graduate student with a cancer epidemiology background who is working toward his program certificate.

If anything — contrary to Lichtenstein's conclusions — the genetic risk was higher for rarer cancers, Risch reports in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

«One promising strategy to reduce the number of people affected by pancreatic cancer is to identify and treat premalignant pancreatic lesions,» said first author Jennifer Permuth - Wey, Ph.D., M.S., assistant member in the Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Oncology at Moffitt.