Recent publications on Cancer

Hershman DL, Unger JM, Barlow WE, Hutchins LF, Martino S, Osborne CK, Livingston RB, Albain KS. Treatment quality and outcomes of African American versus white breast cancer patients: retrospective analysis of southwest oncology studies s8814/s8897. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27(13):2157-62. Epub 2009 Mar 23. PubMed

Abraham L, Geller BM, Yankaskas BC, Bowles EJ, Karliner LS, Taplin SH, Miglioretti DL. Accuracy of self-reported breast cancer among women undergoing mammography.  Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;118(3):583-92. Epub 2009 Mar 20. PubMed

Phelps AC, Maciejewski PK, Nilsson M, Balboni TA, Wright AA, Paulk ME, Trice E, Schrag D, Peteet JR, Block SD, Prigerson HG. Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer. JAMA. 2009;301(11):1140-7. PubMed

Yong M, Atkinson C, Newton KM, Aiello Bowles EJ, Stanczyk FZ, Westerlind KC, Holt VL, Schwartz SM, Leisenring WM, Lampe JW. Associations between endogenous sex hormone levels and mammographic and bone densities in premenopausal women.  Cancer Causes Control. 2009;20(7):1039-53. Epub 2009 Mar 12. PubMed

Dick JF 3rd, Gallagher TH, Brenner RJ, Yi JP, Reisch LM, Abraham L, Miglioretti DL, Carney PA, Cutter GR, Elmore JG. Predictors of radiologists' perceived risk of malpractice lawsuits in breast imaging.  AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2009;192(2):327-33. PubMed

Fenton JJ, Reid RJ, Baldwin LM, Elmore JG, Buist DS, Franks P. Influence of primary care use on population delivery of colorectal cancer screening.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18(2):640-5. Epub 2009 Feb 3. PubMed

Geller BM, Bowles EJ, Sohng HY, Brenner RJ, Miglioretti DL, Carney PA, Elmore JG. Radiologists' performance and their enjoyment of interpreting screening mammograms.  AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2009;192(2):361-9. PubMed

Chubak J, Bowles EJ, Terry MB, Trentham-Dietz A, Buist DS. Antidepressant medications and change in mammographic density in postmenopausal women.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18(2):676-9. Epub 2009 Feb 3. PubMed

Chubak J, Boudreau D, Rulyak S, Mandelson M. Colorectal cancer risk in relation to antidepressant use. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18(2):692. PubMed

Trice ED, Prigerson HG. Communication in end-stage cancer: review of the literature and future research. J Health Commun. 2009;14 Suppl 1:95-108. Review. PubMed

Nilsson ME, Maciejewski PK, Zhang B, Wright AA, Trice ED, Muriel AC, Friedlander RJ, Fasciano KM, Block SD, Prigerson HG. Mental health, treatment preferences, advance care planning, location, and quality of death in advanced cancer patients with dependent children. Cancer. 2009;115(2):399-409. PubMed

Lichtenthal WG, Nilsson M, Zhang B, Trice ED, Kissane DW, Breitbart W, Prigerson HG. Do rates of mental disorders and existential distress among advanced stage cancer patients increase as death approaches? Psychooncology. 2009;18(1):50-61. PubMed

Chew HK, Barlow WE, Albain K, Lew D, Gown A, Hayes DF, Gralow J, Hortobagyi GN, Livingston R. A phase II study of imatinib mesylate and capecitabine in metastatic breast cancer: Southwest Oncology Group Study 0338. Clin Breast Cancer. 2008;8(6):511-5. PubMed

Yu O, Boudreau DM, Buist DS, Miglioretti DL. Statin use and female reproductive organ cancer risk in a large population-based setting.  Cancer Causes Control. 2009 Jul;20(5):609-16. Epub 2008 Nov 30. PubMed

Kerlikowske K, Walker R, Miglioretti DL, Desai A, Ballard-Barbash R, Buist DS. Obesity, mammography use and accuracy, and advanced breast cancer risk.  J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008;100(23):1724-33. Epub 2008 Nov 25. PubMed

Sprague BL, Trentham-Dietz A, Terry MB, Nichols HB, Bersch AJ, Buist DS. Fertility drug use and mammographic breast density in a mammography screening cohort of premenopausal women.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008;17(11):3128-33. PubMed

James RD, Yu JH, Henrikson NB, Bowen DJ, Fullerton SM. Strategies and stakeholders: minority recruitment in cancer genetics research. Community Genet. 2008;11:241-49. PubMed

Boudreau DM, Koehler E, Rulyak SJ, Haneuse S, Harrison R, Mandelson MT. Cardiovascular medication use and risk for colorectal cancer.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008;17(11):3076-80. Epub 2008 Oct 28. PubMed

Park AN, Buist DS, Tiro JA, Taplin SH. Mediating factors in the relationship between income and mammography use in low-income insured women.  J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2008;17(8):1371-8. PubMed

Geiger AM, Strom SS, Demark-Wahnefried W, Buist DS. Strategies to maximize the competitiveness of cancer survivorship grant applications: a report from the American Society of Preventive Oncology's survivorship interest group. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008;17(10):2899-900. PubMed