Browsing by Author "Colditz, Graham"
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Adolescent diet and risk of breast cancer
Frazier, A. Lindsay; Ryan, Catherine Tomeo; Rockett, Helaine; Willett, Walter C.; Colditz, Graham A. (BioMed Central, 2003)Background: Early life exposures, including diet, have been implicated in the etiology of breast cancer. Methods: A nested case-control study was conducted among participants in the Nurses' Health Study who completed a ... -
Alcohol Intake Between Menarche and First Pregnancy: A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Risk
Liu, Ying; Colditz, Graham A.; Rosner, Bernard; Berkey, Catherine S.; Collins, Laura C.; Schnitt, Stuart J.; Connolly, James L.; Chen, Wendy Y.; Willett, Walter C.; Tamimi, Rulla M. (Oxford University Press, 2013)Background: Adult alcohol consumption during the previous year is related to breast cancer risk. Breast tissue is particularly susceptible to carcinogens between menarche and first full-term pregnancy. No study has ... -
Benign breast disease, recent alcohol consumption, and risk of breast cancer: a nested case–control study
Tamimi, Rulla May; Byrne, Celia; Baer, Heather Joanne; Rosner, Bernie; Schnitt, Stuart Jay; Connolly, James Leo; Colditz, Graham A. (BioMed Central, 2005)Introduction: Alcohol consumption is a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. Some studies have suggested that the risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption is greater for women with a history of ... -
Biomarker Validation of Dietary Intervention in Two Multiethnic Populations
Eliassen, A Heather; Colditz, Graham A.; Peterson, Karen E.; Furtado, Jeremy Daniel; Fay, Martha Elizabeth; Sorensen, Glorian; Emmons, Karen Maria (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006)Introduction: Intervention studies have been designed to change dietary and lifestyle factors associated with chronic diseases, but self-reported behavior change may incorporate intervention-related bias. This study examines ... -
Body Fatness During Childhood and Adolescence and Incidence of Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
Baer, Heather Joanne; Colditz, Graham A.; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Michels, Karin B.; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Hunter, David J.; Willett, Walter C. (BioMed Central, 2005)Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We examined prospectively the relation ... -
Columnar Cell Lesions and Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk: A Nested Case-Control Study
Aroner, Sarah A.; Collins, Laura Christine; Schnitt, Stuart Jay; Connolly, James Leo; Colditz, Graham A.; Tamimi, Rulla May (BioMed Central, 2010)Introduction: Histologic and genetic evidence suggests that at least some columnar cell lesions (CCL) of the breast represent precursor lesions in the low-grade breast neoplasia pathway. However, the risk of subsequent ... -
Common ataxia telangiectasia mutated haplotypes and risk of breast cancer: a nested case–control study
Tamimi, Rulla May; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Kraft, Peter; Colditz, Graham A.; Hunter, David J. (BioMed Central, 2004)Introduction: The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene is a tumor suppressor gene with functions in cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Based on family studies, women heterozygous for ... -
Comparison of Molecular Phenotypes of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ and Invasive Breast Cancer
Tamimi, Rulla May; Baer, Heather Joanne; Marotti, Jonathan; Galan, Mark; Galaburda, Laurie; Fu, Yineng; Deitz, Anne C; Connolly, James Leo; Schnitt, Stuart Jay; Colditz, Graham A.; Collins, Laura Christine (BioMed Central, 2008)Introduction: At least four major categories of invasive breast cancer that are associated with different clinical outcomes have been identified by gene expression profiling: luminal A, luminal B, human epidermal growth ... -
Luminal B Breast Tumors Are Not HER2 Positive – Authors' Response
Tamimi, Rulla May; Schnitt, Stuart Jay; Colditz, Graham A.; Collins, Laura Christine (BioMed Central, 2008) -
Menopausal Hormone Therapy after Breast Cancer
Colditz, Graham A. (BioMed Central, 2005)The use of postmenopausal hormone therapy after breast cancer remains controversial. Evidence shows variation by study design, and even among three randomized controlled trials there is substantial heterogeneity of results. ... -
Oral contraceptive use and mortality after 36 years of follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study: prospective cohort study
Charlton, Brittany Michelle; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Colditz, Graham Andrew; Missmer, Stacey Ann; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Speizer, Frank E.; Michels, Karin B. (BMJ, 2014)Objective: To determine whether use of oral contraceptives is associated with all cause and cause specific mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Nurses’ Health Study, data collected between 1976 and ... -
Polymorphic repeat in AIB1 does not alter breast cancer risk
Haiman, Christopher A; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Spiegelman, Donna Lynn; Colditz, Graham A.; Willett, Walter C.; Speizer, Frank Erwin; Brown, Myles Avery; Hunter, David J. (BioMed Central, 2000)We assessed the association between a glutamine repeat polymorphism in AIB1 and breast cancer risk in a case-control study (464 cases, 624 controls) nested within the Nurses' Health Study cohort. We observed no association ... -
The progesterone receptor Val660→Leu polymorphism and breast cancer risk
De Vivo, Immaculata; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Colditz, Graham A.; Hunter, David J. (BioMed Central, 2004)Background: Recent evidence suggests a role for progesterone in breast cancer development and tumorigenesis. Progesterone exerts its effect on target cells by interacting with its receptor; thus, genetic variations, which ... -
Recruitment and retention of participants in a pragmatic randomized intervention trial at three community health clinics: Results and lessons learned
Warner, Erica; Glasgow, Russell E; Emmons, Karen Maria; Bennett, Gary G; Askew, Sandy; Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Colditz, Graham A. (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Obesity and hypertension and their associated health complications disproportionately affect communities of color and people of lower socioeconomic status. Recruitment and retention of these populations in ... -
Risk Prediction Models with Incomplete Data with Application to Prediction of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Prospective Data from the Nurses' Health Study
Rosner, Bernard Alfred; Colditz, Graham A.; Iglehart, James Dirk; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth (BioMed Central, 2008)Introduction: A number of breast cancer risk prediction models have been developed to provide insight into a woman's individual breast cancer risk. Although circulating levels of estradiol in postmenopausal women predict ... -
Towards an integrated model for breast cancer etiology: The lifelong interplay of genes, lifestyle, and hormones
Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Colditz, Graham A.; Willett, Walter C. (BioMed Central, 2004)While the association of a number of risk factors, such as family history and reproductive patterns, with breast cancer has been well established for many years, work in the past 10–15 years also has added substantially ... -
Use of a Food Frequency Questionnaire in American Indian and Caucasian Pregnant Women: A Validation Study
Rockett, Helaine RH; Leppert, Jill; Suitor, Carol W; Baer, Heather Joanne; Flaig, Robin Edlyn Blum; Gardner, Jane D.; Colditz, Graham A. (BioMed Central, 2005)Background: Food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) have been validated in pregnant women, but few studies have focused specifically on low-income women and minorities. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity ... -
What Can Be Learnt from Models of Incidence Rates?
Colditz, Graham A.; Rosner, Bernard Alfred (BioMed Central, 2006)Models of breast cancer incidence have evolved from the observation by Armitage and Doll in the 1950s that the pattern of incidence by age differs for reproductive cancers from those of other major malignancies. Both ... -
Workplace exposure to passive smoking and risk of cardiovascular disease: summary of epidemiologic studies
Kawachi, Ichiro; Colditz, Graham A. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1999)We reviewed the published epidemiologic studies addressing the relationship between workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and cardiovascular disease risk in three case-control studies and three cohort ...