Cohorts with Unique Exposures Studied in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch

Evaluating lifestyle factors (called exposures) and cancer risk sometimes requires identifying population subgroups (called cohorts) that have the exposure to be studied. MEB researchers investigate the relationship between less common, or unique, exposures and cancer risk in the following cohort studies:

Follow-up Studies of Women Evaluated and Treated for Infertility

Retrospective cohort studies of women treated for infertility with ovulation-stimulating drugs to evaluate risk of breast and gynecologic cancers

Bone Density and Cancer Risk: A Follow-Up Study of Women in the Fracture Intervention Trial (BFIT)

A retrospective cohort study that uses data from the FIT clinical trial to evaluate how bone mineral density of the hip is related to subsequent cancer risk; including a nested case-cohort study of circulating sex steroid hormones in relation to breast, endometrial, ovarian, and colorectal cancer risk