Sentences with phrase «cancer epidemiologist»

In the current study, Zhang and her colleagues, including Esther John, Ph.D., senior cancer epidemiologist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, analyzed data on 6,235 American and Canadian breast cancer patients from the Breast Cancer Family Registry, a National Cancer Institute - funded program that has collected clinical and questionnaire data on enrolled participants and their families since 1995.

«People who think, «I'm not at risk,» are really not understanding the magnitude of this virus,» says cancer epidemiologist Electra Paskett of Ohio State University in Columbus.

The news came from cancer epidemiologist Christopher Li, MD, and his colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, who surveyed 3,500 postmenopausal women, 2,000 of whom had breast cancer and 1,500 who did nt.

The study, led by nutrition and cancer epidemiologist Fang Fang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, was published March 6 in Cancer.

Cancer epidemiologist John Bailar of the University of Chicago points out that overall cancer mortality rates in the United States actually rose from 1971 until the early 1990s before declining slightly over the last decade, predominantly because of a decrease in the number of male smokers.

Now comes Devra Davis, a preeminent cancer epidemiologist and environmentalist, to challenge that notion.

Whether or not Risch's conclusions are more accurate, his paper «helps clarify the underlying assumptions» of the earlier study, says cancer epidemiologist Sholom Wacholder of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

Thirty researchers will be hired in the next 5 years to join 50 current USC faculty in the initiative, to be headed by USC cancer epidemiologist Brian Henderson.

In a recent study performed in China, women who were genetically inclined to get breast cancer lowered their risks by about 50 % through eating a diet rich in cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, etc.) «These vegetables are the major source of some chemicals thought to be important for cancer protection,» says study author Jay Fowke, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and cancer epidemiologist at Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center.

Mariana Stern, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of California says about the questionable chemical found n processed meats, «Regardless of where the nitrates come from,» says Stern, «they can be converted by oral bacteria intro nitrites, which in turn can react in the stomach... to form N - Nitroso compounds, which are well - established cancer - causing agents.»

«It may be the treatments used for migraines that are responsible for this risk reduction rather than the migraine itself,» says study co-author Christopher Li, a cancer epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Randall Harris, a cancer epidemiologist at Ohio State University, has observed a 68 percent lower risk of lung cancer in heavy smokers who took aspirin regularly; women who took aspirin or ibuprofen for at least five years had a 40 percent lower risk of breast cancer.

One of the questions that's dogged the study of racial disparities in cancer has been how much is due to access to care, notes Timothy Rebbeck, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Generally, it is important to maintain an adequate weight through life by controlling caloric intake, reducing consumption of energy - dense foods,» said study co-author Dr. Marina Pollan, a cancer epidemiologist at the National Center of Epidemiology in Madrid.

Mariana Stern, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of California says about the questionable chemical found n processed meats, «Regardless of where the nitrates come from,» says Stern, «they can be converted by oral bacteria intro nitrites, which in turn can react in the stomach... to form N - Nitroso compounds, which are well - established cancer - causing agents.»