Traci N. Bethea

ORCID: 0000-0003-3205-2078 · 5 papers in corpus
article 2023
·doi:10.1158/1538-7755.disp22-c105

Abstract PURPOSE: Women with endometriosis have a 2 to 3-fold greater risk of endometrioid and clear cell ovarian cancer than other women, based on estimates from studies predominantly of White women. Fibroids have not been consistently ass…

article 2023
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000005191

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate associations between endometriosis and uterine leiomyomas with ovarian cancer risk by race and the effect of hysterectomy on these associations. METHODS: We used data from four case-control studies and two case-contr…

2022
Chemosphere ·doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134447

Some studies indicate that Black women have higher exposure to multiple non-persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) than white women, but little is known about correlates of exposure to EDC mixtures. Using baseline data from a pros…

2021
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.33493

Family history (FH) of ovarian cancer and breast cancer are well-established risk factors for ovarian cancer, but few studies have examined this association in African American (AA) and white women by histotype. We assessed first- and secon…

2021
Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·doi:10.1093/jnci/djaa188

BackgroundThe causes of racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) incidence remain unclear. Differences in the prevalence of ovarian cancer risk factors may explain disparities in EOC incidence among African American (AA) and Wh…