Joshu CE

ORCID: 0000-0002-5100-172X · 3 papers in corpus
2021
Association of Oophorectomy and Fat and Lean Body Mass: Evidence from a Population-Based Sample of U.S. Women.
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-20-1849

BackgroundBilateral oophorectomy during a nonmalignant hysterectomy is frequently performed for ovarian cancer prevention in premenopausal women. Oophorectomy before menopause leads to an abrupt decline in ovarian hormones that could advers…

2021
Uptake and Predictors of Opportunistic Salpingectomy for Ovarian Cancer Risk Reduction in the United States.
Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) ·doi:10.1158/1940-6207.capr-21-0121

Evidence suggesting that high-grade serous ovarian cancers originate in the fallopian tubes has led to the emergence of opportunistic salpingectomy (OS) as an approach to reduce ovarian-cancer risk. In the U.S., some national societies now …

2019
Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer.
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0286-6

To further dissect the genetic architecture of colorectal cancer (CRC), we performed whole-genome sequencing of 1,439 cases and 720 controls, imputed discovered sequence variants and Haplotype Reference Consortium panel variants into genome…