Graham A. Colditz

ORCID: 0000-0002-7307-0291 · 10 papers in corpus
other 2025
Does interdisciplinary group care for the treatment of endometriosis improve pain interference: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial at an urban academic medical centre
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097372

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis affects 10-15% of people assigned female at birth and can cause chronic pelvic pain and impair many domains of quality of life, such as fertility, mood and bladder, bowel and sexual function. Current treatments o…

2022
Associations of Oral Contraceptives with Mammographic Breast Density in Premenopausal 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-21-0853

BackgroundWe investigated the associations of oral contraceptives (OC) with percent breast density (PD), absolute dense area (DA), nondense area (NDA), and a novel image intensity variation (V) measure in premenopausal women.MethodsThis stu…

2020
Associations of aspirin and other anti-inflammatory medications with mammographic breast density and breast cancer risk.
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-020-01321-0

PurposeWe investigated the associations of aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs with mammographic breast density (MBD) and their interactions in relation to breast cancer risk.MethodsThis study included 3,675 cancer-free wo…

article 2019
A case-crossover analysis of weather as a urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome flare trigger in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network
article 2019
A longitudinal analysis of urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome flares in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain ( MAPP ) Research Network
·doi:10.1111/bju.14783

OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency, intensity and duration of urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptom exacerbations ('flares'), as well as risk factors for these features, in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic …

article 2018
MP39-12 CHANGES IN WHOLE BODY PAIN INTENSITY AND WIDESPREAD-NESS DURING UROLOGIC CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN SYNDROME SYMPTOM (UCPPS) FLARES – FINDINGS FROM ONE SITE OF THE MAPP STUDY
·doi:10.1016/j.juro.2018.02.1259

shift artifacts in the measurements of bladder wall thickness (BWT), CNR and T1 from 20 pixels. RESULTS: Subjects did not complain of any pain or discomfort from 50mL NCM instillation, beyond that caused by the catheterization process. Four…

2017
Pelvic inflammatory disease and the risk of ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis.
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-017-0873-3

PurposePrevious studies on pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and the risk of ovarian cancer have found inconsistent results. We performed an updated meta-analysis to summarize the evidence of this association.MethodsPubMed, Embase, and ISI …

2014
Oral contraceptive use and mortality after 36 years of follow-up in the Nurses' Health Study: prospective cohort study.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.g6356

ObjectiveTo determine whether use of oral contraceptives is associated with all cause and cause specific mortality.DesignProspective cohort study.SettingNurses' Health Study, data collected between 1976 and 2012.Population121,701 participan…

2011
Age at menopause: imputing age at menopause for women with a hysterectomy with application to risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
Annals of epidemiology ·doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.02.010

PurposeAge at menopause, a major marker in the reproductive life, may bias results for evaluation of breast cancer risk after menopause.MethodsWe followed 38,948 premenopausal women in 1980 and identified 2,586 who reported hysterectomy wit…

2010
Ensuring long-term sustainability of existing cohorts remains the highest priority to inform cancer prevention and control.
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-009-9498-5

The case for continued follow-up of existing cohorts arises from the key attributes of cohorts that are already meeting the goals proposed by Potter for the creation of a new cohort. These attributes include the basic nature of ongoing coho…