Research

Consultation and Collaboration

Descriptive Epidemiology

• William Anderson
  • Collaboration on descriptive epidemiologic studies of heterogeneity of breast cancer and other topics with investigators in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ( USUHS), the National Navel Medical Center, the George Washington University (GWU) Cancer Center, and Emory University
• Susan Devesa
  • Descriptive studies of cancer incidence and mortality patterns in the United States with investigators in DCEG, other NCI Divisions, the USUHS, and GWU
  • Descriptive studies of international patterns of cancer incidence and mortality with investigators at the International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC), the University of Oxford, the Cancer Registry of Norway, and the Shanghai Cancer Institute

Genetic Epidemiology

• Nilanjan Chatterjee
  • Genetic studies of prostate cancer and colon adenoma within the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO)
  • Familial aggregation of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Mitchell Gail
  • Effects of salpingo-oophorectomy on the risks of breast and ovarian cancer in carriers of BRCA 1 or BRCA2 mutation
• Ruth Pfeiffer
  • Familial aggregation of lymphoproliferative disorders from the Scandinavian family cancer database
  • Analyses of risk factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma from Taiwanese families ascertained for two or more cases
  • Laboratory methods
• Philip Rosenberg
  • The inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, including Fanconi Anemia and Severe Congenital Neutropenia/Kostmann’s Syndrome
  • Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and risk of cancer
  • Tamoxifen therapy and genetic modulation of the breast and endometrial cancer risk
  • Hereditary breast and ovary cancer
• Sholom Wacholder
  • Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium
  • Interlymph extramural-intramural collaboration of case-control studies of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Kai Yu
  • Population-based case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma hematotoxicity among workers exposed to benzene
  • Genetic studies of lung cancer
  • Collaboration with the Core Genotype Facility (CGF) on non-polyposis colorectal cancer risk estimation
  • Collaboration with CGF on genome wide association studies

Occupational and Environmental Exposures

• Jay Lubin
  • Cohort study of private and commercial pesticide applicators in Iowa and North Carolina
  • Study of lung cancer in Northern Italy
  • Case-control study of bladder cancer in northeastern U.S.
  • Cohort study of women in Shanghai

Nutritional Exposures

• Nilanjan Chatterjee
  • Dietary studies of prostate cancer and colon adenoma within the PLCO trial

Radiation Exposures

• Jay Lubin
  • Thyroid cancer in children exposed to 131I after the Chernobyl accident
  • Studies of childhood exposure to external beam radiation exposure and thyroid cancer
  • Pooling studies of radon exposure populations

Viral Exposures

• Mitchell Gail
  • Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and other risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma
• Ruth Pfeiffer
  • Epidemiology of natural history of HHV-8 and SEN-V infection
  • HLA alleles and HIV transmission
• Philip Rosenberg
  • Epidemiology and natural history of Hepatitis C Virus (HVC) infection
• Sholom Wacholder
  • Studies of human papilloma virus (HPV)
  • Randomized trial of vaccine to prevent HPV infection
  • Natural history of infection and progression to cervical neoplasia, pre-cancer and cancer
  • Clinical epidemiology of screening to prevent cervical cancer