DCEG News Updates
The latest news and research findings from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.
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2018 Representatives to Fellows' Committees
New representatives were appointed to DCEG fellows' committees for 2018.
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Megan Clarke Receives 2018 Coleman Research Innovation Award
DCEG postdoctoral fellow Megan Clarke, Ph.D., M.H.S., was selected for the 2018 William G. Coleman, Jr., Ph.D., Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Innovation Award for her proposal, “Evaluating the Associations of Symptom Appraisal and Barriers to Care with Endometrial Cancer Presentation and Outcomes in a Diverse Population.”
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Get 150 Minutes Per Week of Moderate Physical Activity: It Doesn’t Matter How
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have shown that people who engage in more minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity enjoy health benefits (measured here by likelihood of dying during the study period), but it does not matter how those minutes are accumulated.
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Manila Hada Selected for Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for 2018
Dr. Manila Hada was awarded the Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellowship for 2018. The SRK program is designed to better equip NCI female postdoctoral fellows to transition to independent biomedical research careers.
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Talia Wegman-Ostrosky Selected for Diversity Career Development Program for 2018
Dr. Talia Wegman-Ostrosky was selected for the Diversity Career Development Program for 2018.
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Laufey Amundadottir Presents NIH Director’s Seminar
Dr. Laufey Amundadottir presented a lecture titled “From germline genetics to function: Making sense of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for pancreatic cancer risk” for the prestigious NIH Director’s Seminar Series.
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Bondy Delivers 2018 Visiting Scholar Seminar on Glioma Etiology
In March 2018, Melissa Bondy, Ph.D., M.S., Professor in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, spent two days at DCEG as a Visiting Scholar.
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Cari Kitahara Explores Medical Radiation Exposures and Thyroid Cancer Etiology
Dr. Cari Kitahara has built a multidisciplinary research program to explore cancer risks from occupational and medical radiation exposures, and to investigate the etiology of radiosensitive tumors, including thyroid cancer.
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Of Microbes and Men: Advancing Epidemiologic Research on the Human Microbiome
DCEG investigators have developed a program to advance epidemiologic research on the microbiome.
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New study describes mortality risk associated with cigarette-, cigar-, or pipe-only use
New research from scientists at the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Tobacco Products, provides contemporary estimates of elevated risk of death from cancers known to be associated with tobacco among users of only cigars or pipes, as well as those who smoke only cigarettes.
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Communications and Office of Education Staff Lead Workshops
In February 2018, the DCEG communications team and Office of Education (OE) collaborated to deliver trainings to fellows on communicating with the media, designing and giving effective scientific posters, and giving scientific presentations.
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Fraumeni Recognized by NIH Scientific Directors
In February 2018, Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., M.D., received special recognition from his fellow Scientific Directors at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Prokunina-Olsson Named Acting Chief of LTG
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson, Ph.D., was appointed Acting Chief of the DCEG Laboratory of Translational Genomics (LTG) in February 2018.
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DCEG Mourns Biostatistician Jun-mo Nam
Mr. Jun-mo Nam, formerly a biostatistician in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, passed away on January 4, 2018.
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DCEG Mourns Charles Land, Internationally Acclaimed Statistician and Former Principal Investigator
Charles E. Land, Ph.D., an internationally acclaimed statistical expert on radiation risk assessment, died January 25, 2018. Dr. Land will be remembered not only for his pioneering work in modern radiation dose-response analysis and modeling of low-dose cancer risk, but also as a delightful humble man who loved his family, Japan, music, and his work.
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Sir David Cox Delivers Statistics Lecture Hosted by DCEG
DCEG hosted a lecture in late January by the eminent statistician Sir David Cox, Ph.D. Speaking to a large audience via videoconference from his office in Oxford, England, Sir David presented his thoughts on broad unifying principles and new challenges in statistics.
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Cervical Cancer Screening May Be Less Effective in Obese Women
In a population of 1,000,000 women undergoing state-of-the-art cervical cancer screening, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that overweight and obese women had an increased risk of cervical cancer compared to normal weight women, likely due to less effective cervical cancer screening.
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Detailed Study of Stomach Cancer Incidence Predicts Changes in “Typical” Patient
Noncardia gastric cancer incidence fell by about 2.3% per year in the United States, between 1995 and 2013. This seemingly favorable trend masks the 1.3% yearly increase in rates among Americans younger than 50. Extrapolating these trends, the team predicts higher incidence rates in women in the coming decades, a reversal of the current sex ratio, and an overall increase in noncardia cancer.
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Study finds risk of breast cancer among survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma varies by subtype of breast cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma treatment
In a new study of female survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma, researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) report on the subtypes of breast cancer most likely to develop in this high-risk population.
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Across many health behaviors, long-term oral contraceptive use lowers risk for ovarian and endometrial cancers
DCEG researchers investigated whether the relationship between oral contraceptive use and risks for ovarian, endometrial, breast, and colorectal cancers change when looking at groups of women who have different health behaviors in the years leading up to and during menopause (for example, smoking, alcohol use, BMI, and physical activity).