Sunscreen use and the risk for melanoma: a quantitative review

LK Dennis, LE Beane Freeman… - Annals of internal …, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Background: Originally developed to protect against sunburn, sunscreen has been assumed
to prevent skin cancer. However, conflicting reports include claims that sunscreen increases …

Sunburns and risk of cutaneous melanoma: does age matter? A comprehensive meta-analysis

LK Dennis, MJ Vanbeek, LEB Freeman, BJ Smith… - Annals of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Sunburns are an important risk factor for melanoma and those occurring in
childhood are often cited as posing the greatest risk. We conducted a meta-analysis to …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study

LH Nguyen, DA Drew, MS Graham, AD Joshi… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Data for front-line health-care workers and risk of COVID-19 are limited. We
sought to assess risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers compared with the …

Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

FR Schumacher, AA Al Olama, SI Berndt, S Benlloch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and fine-mapping efforts to date have identified
more than 100 prostate cancer (PrCa)-susceptibility loci. We meta-analyzed genotype data …

A review of nonoccupational pathways for pesticide exposure in women living in agricultural areas

NC Deziel, MC Friesen, JA Hoppin… - Environmental …, 2015 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background Women living in agricultural areas may experience high pesticide exposures
compared with women in urban or suburban areas because of their proximity to farm …

[HTML][HTML] Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40–59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies

CM Kitahara, AJ Flint, A Berrington de Gonzalez… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background The prevalence of class III obesity (body mass index [BMI]≥ 40 kg/m2) has
increased dramatically in several countries and currently affects 6% of adults in the US, with …

[PDF][PDF] Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer and breast cancer subtypes

N Mavaddat, K Michailidou, J Dennis, M Lush… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Stratification of women according to their risk of breast cancer based on polygenic risk
scores (PRSs) could improve screening and prevention strategies. Our aim was to develop …

Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

KB Jacobs, M Yeager, W Zhou, S Wacholder, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
In an analysis of 31,717 cancer cases and 26,136 cancer-free controls from 13 genome-
wide association studies, we observed large chromosomal abnormalities in a subset of …

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction

DV Conti, BF Darst, LC Moss, EJ Saunders, X Sheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a highly heritable disease with large disparities in incidence rates across
ancestry populations. We conducted a multiancestry meta-analysis of prostate cancer …

Mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies and brain cancer among embalmers exposed to formaldehyde

M Hauptmann, PA Stewart, JH Lubin… - Journal of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background Excess mortality from lymphohematopoietic malignancies, in particular myeloid
leukemia, and brain cancer has been found in surveys of anatomists, pathologists, and …