William F. Anderson, M.D., M.P.H. Principal Investigator Location: Executive Plaza South, Room 8036 Phone: 301-594-9125 Fax: 301-402-0081 E-mail: wanderso@mail.nih.gov Biography Research Interests Selected Publications (citations) All Publications (text and abstracts from our publications database) Collaborators

Biography

Following 16 years in rural Northeast Louisiana as a private practitioner in Medical Oncology/Hematology (1981-1997), Dr Anderson transitioned to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP) of the Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP). The CPFP provided support for an MPH degree in Epidemiology that was followed by mentored research training at the NCI (1998-2000). After the CPFP, Dr Anderson was a Medical Officer in DCP (2000-2005) and continued his epidemiology research in collaboration with investigators in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG). In May 2005, Dr. Anderson joined DCEG’s Biostatistics Branch (BB) as a principle investigator to develop a research program in descriptive epidemiology that was supplemented with biostatistical models including two-component mixture models, estimates of absolute age-specific relative risks with graphical representations of qualitative (crossover) age interactions, age-period-cohort models, spline-based survival models, incidence based mortality, and counterfactual (“What if ?”) methods for the assessment of cancer disparities.

Research Interests

• Descriptive epidemiology of breast cancer supplemented with biostatistical models
• Population-based cancer heterogeneity
• Racial and geographic disparities
• Descriptive studies using population-based resources that include individual-level data

Keywords

Breast cancer, descriptive epidemiology, cancer surveillance research, biostatistical models, estrogen receptor, racial/ethnic disparities

Selected Publications

• Anderson WF, Jatoi I, Sherman ME. Qualitative age interactions in breast cancer studies: mind the gap. Journal of Clinical Oncology 27:5308-5311, 2009
• Menashe I, Anderson WF, Jatoi I, Rosenberg PS. Underlying causes of the Black-White racial disparity in breast cancer mortality: a population-based analysis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 101:993-1000, 2009
• Anderson WF, Luo S, Chatterjee N, Rosenberg PS, Matsuno RK, Goodman MT, Hernandez BY, Reichman M, Dolled-Filhart MP, O'Regan RM, Garcia-Closas M, Perou CM, Jatoi I, Cartun RW, Sherman ME. Human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 and estrogen receptor expression, a demonstration project using the residual tissue respository of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program. Breast Cancer Res Treat 113:189-96, 2009
• Anderson WF, Rosenberg PS, Menashe I, Mitani A, Pfeiffer RM. Age-related crossover in breast cancer incidence rates between Black and White Ethnic Groups. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 100:1804-1814, 2008
• Jatoi I, Chen BE, Anderson WF, Rosenberg PS. Breast cancer mortality trends in the United States according to estrogen receptor status and age at diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Oncology 25:1683-1690, 2007
• Anderson WF, Matsuno RK, Sherman ME, Lissowska J, Gail MH, Brinton LA, Yang X, Peplonska B, Chen BE, Rosenberg PS, Chatterjee N, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Bardin-Mikolajczak A, Zatonski W, Devesa SS, Garcia-Closas M. Estimating age-specific breast cancer risks: a descriptive tool to identify age interactions. Cancer Causes & Control 18:439-447, 2007
• Anderson WF, Pfeiffer RM, Dores GM, Sherman ME. Comparison of age frequency distribution patterns for different histopathologic types of breast carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 15:1899-1905, 2006

Collaborators

DCEG Collaborators

• Nilanjan Chatterjee PhD; Susan S. Devesa, PhD; Mitch Gail, MD, PhD; Montserrat Garcia-Closas, MD DrPH; Ruth Pfeiffer, PhD; Phil Rosenberg, PhD; Mark Sherman, MD

Other NCI Collaborators

• Graca Dores, MD, MPH; Stephen Hewitt, MD, PhD

Other Scientific Collaborators

• Phil Grimley, MD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• Don Henson, MD, The George Washington University Cancer Center
• Ismail Jatoi, MD, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• Paul H. Levine, MD, The George Washington University Cancer Center
• Arnold M. Schwartz, MD, PhD, George Washington University Medical Center