Recent publications on Cancer

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

Atkinson C, Newton KM, Aiello Bowles EJ, Lehman CD, Stanczyk FZ, Westerlind KC, Li L, Lampe JW. Daidzein-metabolizing phenotypes in relation to mammographic breast density among premenopausal women in the United States.  Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009 Aug;116(3):587-94. Epub 2008 Sep 28. PubMed

Miglioretti DL, Rutter CM, Bradford SC, Zauber AG, Kessler LG, Feuer EJ, Grossman DC. Improvement in the diagnostic evaluation of a positive fecal occult blood test in an integrated health care organization.  Med Care. 2008;46(9 Suppl 1):S91-6. PubMed

Ceballos RM, Newcomb PA, Beasley JM, Peterson S, Templeton A, Hunt JR. Colorectal cancer cases and relatives of cases indicate similar willingness to receive and disclose genetic information.  Genet Test. 2008;12(3):415-20. PubMed

Luo J, Margolis KL, Adami HO, LaCroix A, Ye W. Obesity and risk of pancreatic cancer among postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative (United States).  Br J Cancer. 2008;99(3):527-31. Epub 2008 Jul 15. PubMed

Curry SJ, Wetter DW, Grothaus LC, McClure JB, Taplin SH. Designing and evaluating individual-level interventions for cancer prevention and control. In SM Miller, DJ Bowen, RT Croyle, J Rowland (Eds.). Handbook of Behavioral Science and Cancer. Washington DC: American Psychological Association; 2008. PubMed

Reding KW, Daling JR, Doody DR, O'Brien CA, Porter PL, Malone KE. Effect of prediagnostic alcohol consumption on survival after breast cancer in young women.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008;17(8):1988-96. Epub 2008 Jul 29. PubMed

Dunnwald LK, Gralow JR, Ellis GK, Livingston RB, Linden HM, Specht JM, Doot RK, Lawton TJ, Barlow WE, Kurland BF, Schubert EK, Mankoff DA. Tumor metabolism and blood flow changes by positron emission tomography: relation to survival in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer.  J Clin Oncol. 2008;26(27):4449-57. Epub 2008 Jul 14. PubMed