Cancer

Faculty
Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel
William J. Blot
John Dunning Boice
Qiuyin Cai
Liana Castel
Qi Dai
Meira Epplein
Jay H. Fowke
Jirong Long
Joseph McLaughlin
Harvey Murff
Maureen Sanderson
Martha Shrubsole
Xiao Ou Shu
Wanqing Wen
Gong Yang
Wei Zheng

Selected Current Research

Etiological Studies of Gastric Carcinoma
National Cancer Institute

Nashville Men´s Health Study 
Genetic and Endocrine Pathways Linking Obesity with Prostate Cancer
National Cancer Institute

Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, and Breast Cancer Risk
National Cancer Institute

Shanghai Breast Cancer Study
National Cancer Institute

Southern Community Cohort Study (Renewal)
National Cancer Institute

Selected Recent Publications

Beeghly A, Kataoka N, Shu XO, Cai QY, Deming S, Gao YT, Zheng W. Her-2/neu amplification and breast cancer survival: results from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study. Oncology Reports 19(5):1347-54, 2008.

Castel LD, Saville BR, DePuy V, Godley PA, Hartmann KE, Abernathy AP. Racial Differences in Pain During 1 Year Among Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Hazards Analysis of Interval-Censored Data. Cancer 112:162-70, 2008. 

Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies of Ovarian Cancer , Beral V, Doll R, Hermon C, Peto R, Reeves G, et al. Ovarian cancer and oral contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of data from 45 epidemiological studies including 23,257 women with ovarian cancer and 87,303 controls. Lancet 371(9609):303-14, 2008.

Franco AT, Johnston E, Krishna U, Yamaoka Y, Israel DA, Nagy TA, Wroblewski LE, Piazuelo MB, Correa P, Peek RM Jr. Regulation of gastric carcinogenesis by Helicobacter pylori virulence factors. Cancer Res. 68(2):379-87, 2008.

Peterson NB, Murff HJ, Cui Y, Hargreaves M, Fowke JH. Papanicolaou Testing among Women in the Southern United States. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 17(6):939-46, 2008.

Shrubsole MJ, Ness RM, Wu H, Shyr Y, Smalley W, Zheng W. Alcohol Drinking, Cigarette Smoking, and Risk of Colorectal Adenomatous and Hyperplastic Polyps. Am J Epidemiology 167(9):1050-8, 2008.