Alice Whittemore

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2013-2018

Study types

  • meta-analysis 1
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
other 2018
Racial/ethnic differences in the epidemiology of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of 12 case-control studies
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 …

meta-analysis 2013
Combined and interactive effects of environmental and GWAS-identified risk factors in ovarian cancer
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…