Recent publications on Cancer

Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Ubel PA, Smith DM, Derry HA, McClure JB, Stark A, Pitsch R, Fagerlin A. Communicating side effect risks in a tamoxifen prophylaxis decision aid: the debiasing influence of pictographs. Patient Educ Couns. 2008;73(2):209-14. Epub 2008 Jul 2. PubMed

Goldman LE, Haneuse SJ, Miglioretti DL, Kerlikowske K, Buist DS, Yankaskas B, Smith-Bindman R. An assessment of the quality of mammography care at facilities treating medically vulnerable populations.  Med Care. 2008;46(7):701-8. PubMed

Taplin S, Abraham L, Barlow WE, Fenton JJ, Berns EA, Carney PA, Cutter GR, Sickles EA, Carl D, Elmore JG. Mammography facility characteristics associated with interpretive accuracy of screening mammography.  J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008;100(12):876-87. Epub 2008 Jun 10. PubMed

Billingsley KG, Morris AM, Green P, Dominitz JA, Matthews B, Dobie SA, Barlow W, Baldwin LM. Does surgeon case volume influence nonfatal adverse outcomes after rectal cancer resection?  J Am Coll Surg. 2008;206(6):1167-77. Epub 2008 Apr 14. PubMed

Wang X, Wan F, Wang JJ. A common misuse of stepwise regression in studies of ratio of metastatic lymph nodes for gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2008 Jun;15(6):1805-6. doi: 10.1245/s10434-008-9908-z. Epub 2008 Apr 9. PubMed

Bonomi AE, Boudreau DM, Fishman PA, Ludman E, Mohelnitzky A, Cannon EA, Seger D. Quality of life valuations of mammography screening.  Qual Life Res. 2008;17(5):801-14. Epub 2008 May 20. PubMed

Aiello Bowles EJ, Miglioretti DL, Sickles EA, Abraham L, Carney PA, Yankaskas B, Elmore J. Accuracy of short-interval follow-up mammograms by patient and radiologist characteristics. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008;190(5):1200-8. PubMed

Terry MB, Buist DS, Trentham-Dietz A, James-Todd TM, Liao Y. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and change in mammographic density: a cohort study using pharmacy records on over 29,000 postmenopausal women.  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008;17(5):1088-95. PubMed

Welsh ML, Buist DS, Aiello Bowles EJ, Anderson ML, Elmore JG, Li CI. Population-based estimates of the relation between breast cancer risk, tumor subtype, and family history.  Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009 Apr;114(3):549-58. Epub 2008 Apr 25. PubMed

Geiger AM, Buist DS, Greene SM, Altschuler A, Field TS. Survivorship research based in integrated healthcare delivery systems: the Cancer Research Network.  Cancer. 2008;112(11 Suppl):2617-26. Epub 2008 Apr 21. PubMed

Pocobelli G, Cook LS, Brant R, Lee SS. Hepatocellular carcinoma incidence trends in Canada: analysis by birth cohort and period of diagnosis. Liver Int. 2008 Nov;28(9):1272-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2008.01704.x. Epub 2008 Apr 1. PubMed

Boudreau DM, Yu O, Buist DS, Miglioretti DL. Statin use and prostate cancer risk in a large population-based setting.  Cancer Causes Control. 2008;19(7):767-74. Epub 2008 Mar 6. PubMed

Tice JA, Cummings SR, Smith-Bindman R, Ichikawa L, Barlow WE, Kerlikowske K. Using clinical factors and mammographic breast density to estimate breast cancer risk: development and validation of a new predictive model.  Ann Intern Med. 2008;148(5):337-47. PubMed

Wang X, Wan F, Pan J, Yu GZ, Chen Y, Wang JJ. Tumor size: a non-neglectable independent prognostic factor for gastric cancer. J Surg Oncol. 2008 Mar 1;97(3):236-40. PubMed

Bucholz TA, Lehman CD, Harris JR, Pockaj BA, Khouri N, Hylton NF, Miller MJ, Whelan T, Pierce LJ, Esserman LJ, Newman LA, Smith BL, Bear HD, Mamounas EP, Statement of the science concerning locoregional treatments after preoperative chemotherapy for breast cancer: a National Cancer Institute conference. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Feb 10;26(5):791-7. PubMed

Lehman CD, Rutter CM, Eby PR, White E, Buist DS, Taplin SH. Lesion and patient characteristics associated with malignancy after a probably benign finding on community practice mammography. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008;190(2):511-5. PubMed

Jiang Y, Miglioretti DL, Metz CE, Schmidt RA. Letter to the editor author response to Kopans, re Designing breast screening imaging trials. Radiology. 2008;243:360-367. PubMed

Newton KM, Buist DS, Yu O, Hartsfield CL, Andrade SE, Wei F, Connelly MT, Chan KA. Hormone therapy initiation after the Women's Health Initiative. Menopause. 2008;15(3):487-93. Epub 2008 Jan 9. PubMed

Aiello Bowles EJ, Tuzzio L, Wiese CJ, Kirlin B, Greene SM, Clauser SB, Wagner EH. Understanding high-quality cancer care: a summary of expert perspectives. Cancer. 2008;112(4):934-42. Epub 2008 Jan 7. PubMed

Fenton JJ, Franks P, Reid RJ, Elmore JG, Baldwin LM. Continuity of care and cancer screening among health plan enrollees. Med Care. 2008;46(1):58-62. PubMed