Search Results - "Pfeiffer, M R"

Risks of myeloid malignancies in patients with autoimmune conditions by Anderson, L A, Pfeiffer, R M, Landgren, O, Gadalla, S, Berndt, S I, Engels, E A

“…Autoimmune conditions are associated with an elevated risk of lymphoproliferative malignancies, but few studies have investigated the risk of myeloid…”
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Determinants of Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric cancer: an international pooled analysis by Camargo, M C, Murphy, G, Koriyama, C, Pfeiffer, R M, Kim, W H, Herrera-Goepfert, R, Corvalan, A H, Carrascal, E, Abdirad, A, Anwar, M, Hao, Z, Kattoor, J, Yoshiwara-Wakabayashi, E, Eizuru, Y, Rabkin, C S, Akiba, S

“…Background: Meta-analyses of the published literature indicate that about 9% of gastric cancers contain Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), with consistent and…”
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Two Criteria for Evaluating Risk Prediction Models by Pfeiffer, R. M., Gail, M. H.

“…We propose and study two criteria to assess the usefulness of models that predict risk of disease incidence for screening and prevention, or the usefulness of…”
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Iodine-131 dose-dependent gene expression: alterations in both normal and tumour thyroid tissues of post-Chernobyl thyroid cancers by Abend, M, Pfeiffer, R M, Ruf, C, Hatch, M, Bogdanova, T I, Tronko, M D, Hartmann, J, Meineke, V, Mabuchi, K, Brenner, A V

“…Background: A strong, consistent association between childhood irradiation and subsequent thyroid cancer provides an excellent model for studying radiation…”
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Hormonal risk factors and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer risk by parity by Bodelon, C, Wentzensen, N, Schonfeld, S J, Visvanathan, K, Hartge, P, Park, Y, Pfeiffer, R M

“…Background: Recent studies have suggested that several ovarian cancer risk factors differ by parity status, but these findings have not been confirmed. We…”
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Risk of lymphoma subtypes after solid organ transplantation in the United States by CLARKE, C. A, MORTON, L. M, CHANG, E. T, ENGELS, E. A, LYNCH, C, PFEIFFER, R. M, HALL, E. C, GIBSON, T. M, WEISENBURGER, D. D, MARTINEZ-MAZA, O, HUSSAIN, S. K, YANG, J

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Common genetic variants in the 9p21 region and their associations with multiple tumours by Gu, F, Pfeiffer, R M, Bhattacharjee, S, Han, S S, Taylor, P R, Berndt, S, Yang, H, Sigurdson, A J, Toro, J, Mirabello, L, Greene, M H, Freedman, N D, Abnet, C C, Dawsey, S M, Hu, N, Qiao, Y-L, Ding, T, Brenner, A V, Garcia-Closas, M, Hayes, R, Brinton, L A, Lissowska, J, Wentzensen, N, Kratz, C, Moore, L E, Ziegler, R G, Chow, W-H, Savage, S A, Burdette, L, Yeager, M, Chanock, S J, Chatterjee, N, Tucker, M A, Goldstein, A M, Yang, X R

“…Background: The chromosome 9p21.3 region has been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple cancers. Methods: We systematically examined up to 203 tagging…”
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Low to moderate alcohol consumption on serum vitamin D and other indicators of bone health in postmenopausal women in a controlled feeding study by Mahabir, S, Baer, D J, Pfeiffer, R M, Li, Y, Watkins, B A, Taylor, P R

“…The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of 8 weeks of no alcohol, low (1 drink or 15 g/day) and moderate (2 drinks or 30 g/day) alcohol…”
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Cancers Among US Organ Donors: A Comparison of Transplant and Cancer Registry Diagnoses by Engels, E. A., Castenson, D., Pfeiffer, R. M., Kahn, A., Pawlish, K., Goodman, M. T., Nalesnik, M. A., Israni, A. K., Snyder, J., Kasiske, B.

“…Transmission of cancer is a life‐threatening complication of transplantation. Monitoring transplantation practice requires complete recording of donor cancers…”
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Plasma Cell Neoplasms in US Solid Organ Transplant Recipients by Engels, E. A., Clarke, C. A., Pfeiffer, R. M., Lynch, C. F., Weisenburger, D. D., Gibson, T. M., Landgren, O., Morton, L. M.

“…Transplant recipients have elevated risk for plasma cell neoplasms (PCNs, comprising multiple myeloma and plasmacytoma), but little is known about risk factors…”
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Time-dependent association of total serum cholesterol and cancer incidence in a cohort of 172 210 men and women: a prospective 19-year follow-up study by Strasak, A. M., Pfeiffer, R. M., Brant, L. J., Rapp, K., Hilbe, W., Oberaigner, W., Lang, S., Borena, W., Concin, H., Diem, G., Ruttmann, E., Glodny, B., Pfeiffer, K. P., Ulmer, H.

“…Background: The relationship between serum cholesterol and cancer incidence remains controversial. Patients and methods: We investigated the association of…”
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Breast cancer risk in elderly women with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases: a population-based case-control study by Gadalla, S M, Amr, S, Langenberg, P, Baumgarten, M, Davidson, W F, Schairer, C, Engels, E A, Pfeiffer, R M, Goedert, J J

“…Systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are chronic inflammatory and immuno-modulatory conditions that have been suggested to affect cancer risk. Using…”
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On estimating average effects for multiple treatment groups by Landsman, V., Pfeiffer, R.M.

“…We propose to estimate average exposure (or treatment) effects from observational data for multiple exposure groups by fitting an approximation of the marginal…”
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Sex steroid hormones in relation to Barrett's esophagus: an analysis of the FINBAR Study by Cook, M. B., Wood, S., Hyland, P. L., Caron, P., Drahos, J., Falk, R. T., Pfeiffer, R. M., Dawsey, S. M., Abnet, C. C., Taylor, P. R., Guillemette, C., Murray, L. J., Anderson, L. A.

“…Summary Previously, we observed strong positive associations between circulating concentrations of free testosterone and free dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in…”
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Prolactin serum levels and breast cancer: relationships with risk factors and tumour characteristics among pre- and postmenopausal women in a population-based case-control study from Poland by Faupel-Badger, J M, Sherman, M E, Garcia-Closas, M, Gaudet, M M, Falk, R T, Andaya, A, Pfeiffer, R M, Yang, X R, Lissowska, J, Brinton, L A, Peplonska, B, Vonderhaar, B K, Figueroa, J D

“…Background: Previous prospective studies have found an association between prolactin (PRL) levels and increased risk of breast cancer. Using data from a…”
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Brain tumors in patients with myotonic dystrophy: a population-based study by Gadalla, S. M., Pfeiffer, R. M., Kristinsson, S. Y., Björkholm, M., Landgren, O., Greene, M. H.

“…Background and purpose Patients with myotonic dystrophy (DM) are at high risk of brain cancer. This study describes the spectrum of brain neoplasms in DM…”
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Non-parametric estimation of the age-at-onset distribution from a cross-sectional sample by Mandal, S, Qin, J, Pfeiffer, R M

“…We propose and study a simple and innovative non-parametric approach to estimate the age-of-onset distribution for a disease from a cross-sectional sample of…”
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Elevated risk of venous but not arterial thrombosis in Waldenström macroglobulinemia/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma by Hultcrantz, M., Pfeiffer, R. M., Björkholm, M., Goldin, L. R., Turesson, I., Schulman, S., Landgren, O., Kristinsson, S. Y.

“…Summary Background Many malignancies, including multiple myeloma and its precursor, monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significant, are associated with an…”
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On the use and misuse of scalar scores of confounders in design and analysis of observational studies by Pfeiffer, R. M., Riedl, R.

“…We assess the asymptotic bias of estimates of exposure effects conditional on covariates when summary scores of confounders, instead of the confounders…”
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Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma Among Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States by Karami, S., Yanik, E. L., Moore, L. E., Pfeiffer, R. M., Copeland, G., Gonsalves, L., Hernandez, B. Y., Lynch, C. F., Pawlish, K., Engels, E. A.

“…Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignancy following kidney transplantation. We describe RCC risk and examine RCC risk factors among US kidney…”
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