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Biomedicine
Biomedicine, general
Cancer Research
Epidemiology
Hematology
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Cancer fatalism, social media informational awareness, and education
Understand if cancer fatalism among adult social media users in the United States is linked to social media informational awareness and if the relationship varies by education level.
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Variation in patterns of second primary malignancies across U.S. race and ethnicity groups: a Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) analysis
One in six incident cancers in the U.S. is a second primary cancer (SPC). Although primary cancers vary considerably by race and ethnicity, little is known about the population-based occurrence of SPC across t...
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Trusting information on cancer varies by source of information and political viewpoint
This study investigated how trusting information on cancer varies by the source of information and political viewpoint.
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Adjuvant radiation therapy and health-related quality of life among older women with early-stage endometrial cancer: an analysis using the SEER-MHOS linkage
Radiation therapy (RT) has been associated with decreased health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in clinical trials of early-stage endometrial cancer (EC), but few studies have examined the association in real...
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Open AccessSmoking and pancreatic cancer: a sex-specific analysis in the Multiethnic Cohort study
To examine whether the detrimental smoking-related association with pancreatic cancer (PC) is the same for women as for men.
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Outdoor light at night and risk of liver cancer in the NIH-AARP diet and health study
Accumulating evidence suggests that light at night (LAN) disrupts circadian rhythms and may increase risk of liver cancer. However, there is no population-based study that examined LAN and liver cancer risk. T...
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The risk of diffuse-type gastric cancer following diagnosis with gastric precancerous lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Gastric cancers are classified as diffuse-type (DTGC) or intestinal-type (ITGC). DTGCs have distinct clinical and histopathologic features, and carry a worse overall prognosis compared to ITGCs. Atrophic gastr...
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Adolescent dairy product and calcium intake in relation to later prostate cancer risk and mortality in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
Although a growing body of evidence supports an early-life contribution to prostate cancer (PCa) development, few studies have investigated early-life diet, and only three have examined early-life dairy produc...
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Low serum cholesterol as a risk factor for kidney and bladder cancer among Korean men: using a national cohort sample
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Benign gynecologic conditions are associated with ovarian cancer risk in African-American women: a case–control study
The association between common benign gynecologic conditions and ovarian cancer remains under-studied in African Americans. Therefore, we examine the association between self-reported history of benign gynecol...
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Childhood diet and growth in boys in relation to timing of puberty and adult height: the Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development
To begin to explore the possible roles of childhood diet and growth in prostate cancer (PCa) development, we investigated these exposures in relation to two known/suspected PCa risk factors, earlier pubertal t...
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Helicobacter pylori infection is an independent risk factor for colonic adenomatous neoplasms
Helicobacter pylori infection is considered to have a positive association with colorectal neoplasms. In this study, we evaluated the association between H. pylori infection and colore...
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Diagnostic colonoscopy following a positive fecal occult blood test in community health center patients
Fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) is a pragmatic screening option for many community health centers (CHCs), but FOBT screening programs will not reduce mortality if patients with positive results do not underg...
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Open AccessThe effects of height and BMI on prostate cancer incidence and mortality: a Mendelian randomization study in 20,848 cases and 20,214 controls from the PRACTICAL consortium
Epidemiological studies suggest a potential role for obesity and determinants of adult stature in prostate cancer risk and mortality, but the relationships described in the literature are complex. To address u...
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Racial/ethnic differences in lifestyle-related factors and prostate cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort Study
Older age, African ancestry, and family history of prostate cancer are well-established risk factors for prostate cancer, and all are non-modifiable. Various lifestyle factors have been examined in relation to...
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Menopausal hormone therapy and mortality among endometrial cancer patients in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
While menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is an established endometrial cancer risk factor, its relationship with mortality among endometrial cancer patients is understudied.
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Risk factors for endometrial cancer in black and white women: a pooled analysis from the epidemiology of endometrial cancer consortium (E2C2)
Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecologic cancer in the USA. Over the last decade, the incidence rate has been increasing, with a larger increase among blacks. The aim of this study was to compare...
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Breast cancer risk in older women: results from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
Divergent risk factors exist for premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancers, but it is unclear whether differences by age exist among postmenopausal women.
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Cigarette smoking and endometrial carcinoma risk: the role of effect modification and tumor heterogeneity
The inverse relationship between cigarette smoking and endometrial carcinoma risk is well established. We examined effect modification of this relationship and associations with tumor characteristics in the Na...
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Tobacco smoking, NBS1 polymorphisms, and survival in lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancers with semi-Bayes adjustment for hazard ratio variation
Although single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of NBS1 have been associated with susceptibility to lung and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancers, their relations to cancer survival and measures of effect are...
