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Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences

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Present	Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Breast cancer etiology and prevention, Incorporation of biomarker assessments into epidemiologic research, and Women’s health

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Premenopausal Endogenous Steroid Hormones and Breast Cancer Risk: Results from ...

Breast Cancer Research (2013)

Renée T. Fortner, A. Heather Eliassen, Donna Spiegelman, Walter C. Willett, et al.

Introduction: Prior research supports an association between endogenous sex steroids and breast cancer among postmenopausal women; the association is less ...

Genetic variability in IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 and body size in ...

BMC Public Health (2012)

Elizabeth M. Poole, Shelley S. Tworoger, Susan E. Hankinson and Heather J. Baer

Background Early life body size and circulating levels of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 have been linked to increased risks of breast ...

Reproductive aging-associated common genetic variants and the risk of breast ...

Breast Cancer Research (2012)

Chunyan He, Daniel I. Chasman, Jill Dreyfus, Shih-Jen Hwang, et al.

Introduction A younger age at menarche and an older age at menopause are well established risk factors for breast cancer. ...

Insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 and lobule ...

Breast Cancer Research (2012)

Megan S. Rice, Rulla M. Tamimi, James L. Connolly, Laura C. Collins, et al.

Introduction Previous research in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the NHSII observed that, among women diagnosed with benign breast ...

Nondense mammographic area and risk of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research (2011)

Andreas Pettersson, Susan E. Hankinson, Walter C. Willett, Pagona Lagiou, et al.

Introduction The mechanisms underlying the strong association between percentage dense area on a mammogram and the risk of breast cancer ...

The combined influence of multiple sex and growth hormones on ...

Breast Cancer Research (2011)

Shelley S. Tworoger, Bernard A. Rosner, Walter C. Willett and Susan E. Hankinson

Introduction Sex and growth hormones are positively associated with postmenopausal breast cancer risk. However, few studies have evaluated the influence ...

Plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of breast cancer in the ...

Breast Cancer Research (2011)

A. Heather Eliassen, Donna Spiegelman, Bruce W. Hollis, Ronald L. Horst, et al.

Introduction Experimental evidence indicates vitamin D may play an important role in breast cancer etiology but epidemiologic evidence to date ...

Risk factors for ductal and lobular breast cancer: results from ...

Breast Cancer Research (2010)

Joanne Kotsopoulos, Wendy Y. Chen, Margaret A. Gates, Shelley S. Tworoger, et al.

Introduction Ductal and lobular carcinomas are the two most common types of invasive breast cancer. Whether well-established risk factors are ...

Genetic polymorphisms of the GNRH1 and GNRHR genes and risk ...

BMC Cancer (2009)

Federico Canzian, Rudolf Kaaks, David G. Cox, Katherine D. Henderson, et al.

Background Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GNRH1) triggers the release of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone from the pituitary. Genetic variants ...

A prospective study of androgen levels, hormone-related genes and risk ...

Arthritis Research & Therapy (2009)

Elizabeth W. Karlson, Lori B. Chibnik, Monica McGrath, Shun-Chiao Chang, et al.

Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is more common in females than males and sex steroid hormones may in part explain this ...

Breast cancer susceptibility loci and mammographic density

Breast Cancer Research (2008)

Rulla M. Tamimi, David Cox, Peter Kraft, Graham A. Colditz, et al.

Introduction Recently, the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study and identified 11 single nucleotide polymorphisms ...

Risk prediction models with incomplete data with application to prediction ...

Breast Cancer Research (2008)

Bernard Rosner, Graham A. Colditz, J. Dirk Iglehart and Susan E. Hankinson

Introduction A number of breast cancer risk prediction models have been developed to provide insight into a woman's individual breast ...

Biological variability dominates and influences analytical variance in HPLC-ECD studies ...

BMC Clinical Pathology (2007)

Yevgeniya I. Shurubor, Wayne R. Matson, Walter C. Willett, Susan E. Hankinson, et al.

Background Biomarker-based assessments of biological samples are widespread in clinical, pre-clinical, and epidemiological investigations. We previously developed serum metabolomic profiles ...

TGFB1 and TGFBR1 polymorphisms and breast cancer risk in the ...

BMC Cancer (2007)

David G. Cox, Kathryn Penney, Qun Guo, Susan E. Hankinson, et al.

Background Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFB1) forms a signaling complex with transforming growth factor beta receptors 1 and 2 ...

Common genetic variation in IGF1, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 in relation ...

Breast Cancer Research (2007)

Rulla M. Tamimi, David G. Cox, Peter Kraft, Michael N. Pollak, et al.

Introduction Mammographic density is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer and is believed to represent epithelial and ...

A polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of the gene ...

Breast Cancer Research (2007)

David G. Cox, Julie Buring, Susan E. Hankinson and David J. Hunter

Introduction Prostaglandins are integral components in the cellular response to inflammation, promoting cellular proliferation and angiogenesis. The enzyme responsible for ...

A comprehensive analysis of the androgen receptor gene and risk ...

Breast Cancer Research (2006)

David G. Cox, Hélène Blanché, Celeste L. Pearce, Eugenia E. Calle, et al.

Introduction: Androgens have been hypothesised to influence risk of breast cancer through several possible mechanisms, including their conversion to estradiol ...

Haplotype analysis of common variants in the BRCA1 gene and ...

Breast Cancer Research (2004)

David G. Cox, Peter Kraft, Susan E. Hankinson and David J. Hunter

Introduction Truncation mutations in the BRCA1 gene cause a substantial increase in risk of breast cancer. However, these mutations are ...

The progesterone receptor Val660→Leu polymorphism and breast cancer risk

Breast Cancer Research (2004)

Immaculata De Vivo, Susan E. Hankinson, Graham A. Colditz and David J. Hunter

Background Recent evidence suggests a role for progesterone in breast cancer development and tumorigenesis. Progesterone exerts its effect on target ...

Towards an integrated model for breast cancer etiology: The lifelong ...

Breast Cancer Research (2004)

Susan E. Hankinson, Graham A. Colditz and Walter C Willett

While the association of a number of risk factors, such as family history and reproductive patterns, with breast cancer has ...

Common ataxia telangiectasia mutated haplotypes and risk of breast cancer ...

Breast Cancer Research (2004)

Rulla M. Tamimi, Susan E. Hankinson, Donna Spiegelman, Peter Kraft, et al.

Introduction The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene is a tumor suppressor gene with functions in cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and ...

Prospective study of dietary fat and the risk of age-related ...

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2001)

E. Cho, S. Hung, W. C. Willett, D. Spiegelman, et al.

BACKGROUND: The relation between intakes of total fat and specific types of fat and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains unclear. ...

Plasma insulin-like growth factor (IGF) I, IGF-binding protein 3, and ...

Cancer Research (2000)

C. Byrne, G. A. Colditz, W. C. Willett, F. E. Speizer, et al.

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) play a role in the normal development of breast tissue ...

Polymorphic repeat in AIB1 does not alter breast cancer risk

Breast Cancer Research (2000)

Haiman A. Christopher, Susan E. Hankinson, Donna Spiegelman, Graham A. Colditz, et al.

We assessed the association between a glutamine repeat polymorphism in AIB1 and breast cancer risk in a case-control study (464 ...

Prospective study of talc use and ovarian cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2000)

D. M. Gertig, D. J. Hunter, D. W. Cramer, G. A. Colditz, et al.

BACKGROUND: Perineal talc use has been associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer in a number of case-control studies; ...