Epidemiologia Del Cancer
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Publicado: 7 de octubre de 2011
UC Davis epidemiologists are also investigating:
- Cervical Cancer.
Hispanic women in California have a higher risk of cervical cancer than other women in California. Schenker has a proposalbefore the NCI now for a study to determine why. Potential factors to be investigated include a lack of access to screening tests.
- Breast Cancer.
Mary Haan, assistance professor in theDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and director of the Center for Aging and Health, is principal investigator of the Women’s Health Eating and Living (WHEL) Trial, funded by a $1.2 million statewide grant awarded by the Wal ton Fami ly Foundation. The randomized, controlled trial will study the effect of a plant-based diet on breast cancer recurrence in 18-to 70-year-old women whohave had stages I, II and IIIA breast cancer in the four years before enrollment in the study.
- Childhood cancers.
Ellen B Gold, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and PreventiveMedicine, has been investigating factors that might explain a rise in certain childhood cancers between 1973 and 1988. During that 15-year period, the incidence among children of acute lymphocytic leukemiaincreased 10.7 percent; the incidence of non Hodgkins lymphoma increased 19.2 percent; and cancers of the brain and nervous system increased 30.5 percent.
- Cancers associated with exposures topesticides.
James J Beaumont, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine is planning an ambitious epidemiologic study of cancer and agricultural chemicals inCalifornia. The study would make use of data from the statewide California Tumor Registry and state pesticide use reports, which have been mandatory since 1974. It would examine cancers associated withexposures to agricultural chemicals, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer, breast cancer, non Hodgkin’s lumphoma, soft tissue sarcoma and Hodgkin’s disease.
The cervix is the lower part of the...
- Cervical Cancer.
Hispanic women in California have a higher risk of cervical cancer than other women in California. Schenker has a proposalbefore the NCI now for a study to determine why. Potential factors to be investigated include a lack of access to screening tests.
- Breast Cancer.
Mary Haan, assistance professor in theDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and director of the Center for Aging and Health, is principal investigator of the Women’s Health Eating and Living (WHEL) Trial, funded by a $1.2 million statewide grant awarded by the Wal ton Fami ly Foundation. The randomized, controlled trial will study the effect of a plant-based diet on breast cancer recurrence in 18-to 70-year-old women whohave had stages I, II and IIIA breast cancer in the four years before enrollment in the study.
- Childhood cancers.
Ellen B Gold, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and PreventiveMedicine, has been investigating factors that might explain a rise in certain childhood cancers between 1973 and 1988. During that 15-year period, the incidence among children of acute lymphocytic leukemiaincreased 10.7 percent; the incidence of non Hodgkins lymphoma increased 19.2 percent; and cancers of the brain and nervous system increased 30.5 percent.
- Cancers associated with exposures topesticides.
James J Beaumont, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine is planning an ambitious epidemiologic study of cancer and agricultural chemicals inCalifornia. The study would make use of data from the statewide California Tumor Registry and state pesticide use reports, which have been mandatory since 1974. It would examine cancers associated withexposures to agricultural chemicals, including prostate cancer, testicular cancer, breast cancer, non Hodgkin’s lumphoma, soft tissue sarcoma and Hodgkin’s disease.
The cervix is the lower part of the...
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