Whittemore A

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
other 2018
International journal of epidemiology ·doi:10.1093/ije/dyx252

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer incidence differs substantially by race/ethnicity, but the reasons for this are not well understood. Data were pooled from the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES) and 11 case-control studies in the …

2014
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000000061

ObjectiveTo estimate ovarian and peritoneal cancer rates after hysterectomy with and without salpingo-oophorectomy for benign conditions.MethodsAll patients after hysterectomy for benign disease from 1988 to 2006 in Kaiser Permanente Northe…

meta-analysis 2013
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology ·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-1030-T

BACKGROUND: There are several well-established environmental risk factors for ovarian cancer, and recent genome-wide association studies have also identified six variants that influence disease risk. However, the interplay between such risk…