Endogenous hormones and breast cancer risk.

L Bernstein, RK Ross - Epidemiologic reviews, 1993 - europepmc.org
There is substantial evidence that high estrogen levels in postmenopausal women are
associated with an increase in breast cancer risk, but such a relation has not yet been …

[HTML][HTML] Type I and II endometrial cancers: have they different risk factors?

VW Setiawan, HP Yang, MC Pike… - Journal of Clinical …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose Endometrial cancers have long been divided into estrogen-dependent type I and
the less common clinically aggressive estrogen-independent type II. Little is known about …

Epidemiology of endocrine-related risk factors for breast cancer

L Bernstein - Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia, 2002 - Springer
Ovarian and other hormones are major determinants of breast cancer risk. Particularly
important is the accumulative exposure of the breast to circulating levels of the ovarian …

Smoking and drinking in relation to oral and pharyngeal cancer

WJ Blot, JK McLaughlin, DM Winn, DF Austin… - Cancer research, 1988 - AACR
A case-control study of oral and pharyngeal cancer conducted in four areas of the United
States provided information on the tobacco and alcohol use of 1114 patients and 1268 …

Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

K Michailidou, S Lindström, J Dennis, J Beesley, S Hui… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Breast cancer risk is influenced by rare coding variants in susceptibility genes, such as
BRCA1, and many common, mostly non-coding variants. However, much of the genetic …

HER-2/neu gene amplification characterized by fluorescence in situ hybridization: poor prognosis in node-negative breast carcinomas.

MF Press, L Bernstein, PA Thomas… - Journal of clinical …, 1997 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The HER-2/neu gene codes for a membrane receptor protein that is
homologous, but distinct from the epidermal growth factor receptor. This investigation was …

[HTML][HTML] Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer

PA Marchbanks, JA McDonald… - New England journal …, 2002 - Mass Medical Soc
Background It is uncertain whether the use of an oral contraceptive increases the risk of
breast cancer later in life, when the incidence of breast cancer is increased. We conducted a …

Epidemiologic evaluation of measurement data in the presence of detection limits

JH Lubin, JS Colt, D Camann, S Davis… - Environmental …, 2004 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Quantitative measurements of environmental factors greatly improve the quality of
epidemiologic studies but can pose challenges because of the presence of upper or lower …

Leisure time spent sitting in relation to total mortality in a prospective cohort of US adults

AV Patel, L Bernstein, A Deka… - American journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The obesity epidemic is attributed in part to reduced physical activity. Evidence supports that
reducing time spent sitting, regardless of activity, may improve the metabolic consequences …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of socioeconomic status on cancer incidence and stage at diagnosis: selected findings from the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results: National …

LX Clegg, ME Reichman, BA Miller, BF Hankey… - Cancer causes & …, 2009 - Springer
Background Population-based cancer registry data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology,
and End Results (SEER) Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are mainly based on …