Graham A. Colditz

ORCID: 0000-0002-7307-0291 · 10 papers in corpus
other 2025
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…

observational 2022
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

BACKGROUND: We 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. METHODS: Th…

observational 2020
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-020-01321-0

PURPOSE: We 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. METHODS: This study included 3,675 cancer-f…

2019
observational 2019
BJU international ·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 …

2018
·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…

meta-analysis 2017
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-017-0873-3

PURPOSE: Previous 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. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, an…

observational 2014
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) ·doi:10.1136/bmj.g6356

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether use of oral contraceptives is associated with all cause and cause specific mortality. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Nurses' Health Study, data collected between 1976 and 2012. POPULATION: 121,…

observational 2011
Annals of epidemiology ·doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.02.010

PURPOSE: Age at menopause, a major marker in the reproductive life, may bias results for evaluation of breast cancer risk after menopause. METHODS: We followed 38,948 premenopausal women in 1980 and identified 2,586 who reported hysterecto…

other 2010
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…