Cancers Under Investigation
Research of the Cancer Epidemiology Program and the Cancer Prevention and Control Program is impacting the current understanding and treatment of a number of cancers. For example, their work has confirmed the hormonal aspects of thyroid cancer etiology and identified goiter and diet as major factors explaining ethnic variation in this disease. Current studies are looking at whether treatment of Helicobacter Pylori infection can prevent gastric adenocarcinoma and at how the underreporting of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic patient data by physicians has impacted current estimates of the melanoma epidemic.
Cancers under investigation include:- Bladder
- Studies: Stanford Urologic/Genitourinary Cancers; Validation Study of Test to Detect Recurrence of Bladder Cancer, NCI, Multicenter ; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Rudy Rull, Dee West
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Joseph Presti, Rudy Rull, Samuel So
- Brain
- Studies: Survey to measure effect of children's brain tumor treatment, Brain Tumors and the Environment, Novel genomic technology to classify and risk stratify pediatric gliomas, Clinical Trials, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Central Brain Tumour Registry (CBTRUS), Stanford Tissue Bank, Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Paul Fisher, Gary Friedman, Peggy Reynolds
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford
- Breast
- Studies: Etiology; California Teachers Study; Psychosocial Treatment Lab/Breast Cancer Studies; Breast Cancer Prevention Studies; Effects of Soy; NLBI WHI Breast Cancer Outcomes; Cancer-related Health Behaviors and Screening Practices Among Latinos; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies; Breast Cancer Risk in Nail Salon Workers; Breast Cancer and Epstein-Barr Virus; Breast Cancer and HLA/Immune Function; Breast Cancer and Hygiene Hypothesis; Multiethnic Case-Control Study of Breast Cancer; Breast Cancer Treatment Choices; Breast Cancer and Early Life Exposures; Growth and Lifestyle Study; Survival in High-risk Breast Cancer Families; Young Breast Cancer Survivors 10 Years Later; Bone Health in Young Breast Cancer Survivors; Breast Cancer Risk Modifiers BRCA Mutation Carriers; Women's Healthy Living and Eating (WHEL) Study; New Project Test 123; Expanding Rural Access: Distance Delivery of Support Groups
- Registries/Repositories: Breast Cancer Family Registry, California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, Stanford Tissue Bank, Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Christina Clarke, Sally Glaser, Scarlett Gomez, Pamela Horn-Ross, Esther John, Theresa Keegan, Allison Kurian, Douglas Owens, Sylvia Plevritis, Peggy Reynolds, Kim Rhoads, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Robert Carlson, James Ford, Christopher Gardner, Cheryl Koopman, Helena Kraemer, Bang Nguyen, Ingrid-Oakley-Girvan, David Spiegel, Marcia Stefanick, Todd Wagner
- Cervical
- Studies: Detection of Cervical and Breast Cancer, Cancer-related Health Behaviors and Screening Practices Among Latinos, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Ellen Chang, Christina Clarke, Sally Glaser, Dee West
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Cheryl Koopman, Bang Nguyen, Marilyn Winkleby
- Colon
- Studies: Etiology; NLBI WHI Colon Cancer Outcomes; Cancer-related Health Behaviors and Screening Practices Among Latinos; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies; Colorectal Screening in Vietnamese
- Registries: Colon Cancer Family Registry, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Gary Friedman, Douglas Owens, Kim Rhoads, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford, Bang Nguyen, Kim Rhoads
- Endometrial
- Studies: Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies; UCSF Stanford Joint health care studies; California Teachers Study
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Scarlett Gomez, Pamela Horn-Ross, Esther John, Douglas Owens, Peggy Reynolds, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford, Marcia Stefanick
- Esophageal
- Studies: Stanford Gastrointestinal and Colon - Esophagus
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Gary Friedman, Douglas Owens, Julie Parsonnet
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Abbey King, Marilyn Winkleby
- Gastrointestinal
- Studies: Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies, General Clinical Research Center Programs
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Julie Parsonnet
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford, Samuel So
- General Cancer Prevention
- Studies: Cancer Risk Factor Prevention for High Risk Youth; Effects of Soy Isoflavones on the Prostate, Breast and Bone; National Black Women's Health Project; FOCUS study:Breast, Colorectal, Endometrial, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Progression and Survival; ECOG Cancer in Sibling; APEC Trends in Cancer Mortality; Assessment of Patients' Experience of Cancer Care (APECC) Study: Bladder Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, and Leukemia
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Christopher Gardner, Joel Killen, Abby King
- Kidney
- Studies: Urology Department Studies
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Rudy Rull
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Stephen Fortmann, Joseph Presti
- Leukemia
- Studies: Northern California Childhood Leukemia Study; Leukemia and Exposure Insights with GIS; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Stanford Tissue Bank, Stanford Stem Cell Bank, Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Cooperative Tissue Repository,
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Russ Altman, Christina Clarke, Sally Glaser, Peggy Reynolds, Rudy Rull
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Ingrid Oakley-Girvan
- Liver
- Studies: Liver Cancer Prevention Studies, Liver drug-related phenotyping project; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Centers: Asian Liver Cancer Center
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Russ Altman, Ellen Chang, Douglas Owens
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Samuel So
- Lung
- Studies: Cancer Prevention Studies, ECOG Cancer in Siblings, Teen Tobacco Use Prevention, Behavioral Maintenance Treatment for Smoking Cessation; Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Russ Altman, Lisa Henricksen, Theresa Keegan, Douglas Owens, Sylvia Plevritis, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Stephen Fortmann, Michael Gould, Joel Killen, Matthew Kohrman, Thomas Robinson, Marcia Stefanick, Todd Wagner, Heather Wakelee, Marilyn Winkleby
- Lymphomas
- Studies: Developmental Project on Lymphoma, Etiology, California Teachers Study, EBV and Hodgkins Lymphoma, Genetic Susceptibility and Hodgkins Lymphoma, Etologic Study of Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lumphoma in Scandinavia, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Stanford Tissue Bank, Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Ellen Chang, Christina Clarke, Ron Davis, Sally Glaser, Scarlett Gomez, Pamela Horn-Ross, Theresa Keegan, Sylvia Plevritis, Peggy Reynolds, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Robert Carlson, Richard Olshen, Marily Winkleby
- Melanoma
- Studies: California Teachers Study, Stanford Melanoma Clinic, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Christina Clarke, Theresa Keegan, Peggy Reynolds
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Christina Clarke, Theresa Keegan, Peggy Reynolds
- Ovarian
- Studies: Etiology, California Teachers Study, Gene Environment Interactions in Ovarian Cancer, Diet and Risk of Ovarian Cancer, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), Stanford Stem Cell Bank
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Ellen Chang, Christina Clarke, Ronald Davis, Gary Friedman, Pamela Horn-Ross, Esther John, Allison Kurian, Valerie McGuire, Peggy Reynolds, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford, Cheryl Koopman, Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Todd Wagner, Marilyn Winkleby
- Pancreatic
- Studies: Gene Expression Profiling
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford
- Prostate
- Studies: Etiology, Psychosocial Treatment Lab/Prostate Studies, Risk Factors for Advanced Prostate Cancer, Treatment Choice and Quality of Life for Men with Localized Prostate Cancer, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Registries/Repositories: International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG)
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Ellen Chang, Christina Clarke, Gary Friedman, Scarlett Gomez, Esther John, Valerie McGuire, Weiva Sieh, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: Christopher Gardner, Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Joseph Presti, Marcia Stefanick, Todd Wagner
- Thoracic
- Studies: Thoracic Cancer Trials
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Phil Lavori
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program Members: James Ford, Heather Wakelee
- Thyroid
- Studies: Iodine and Thyroid Cancer Risk, California Teachers Study, Cancer Prevention Institute of California Studies
- Cancer Epidemiology Program Members: Gary Friedman, Peggy Reynolds, Pamela Horn-Ross, Dee West, Alice Whittemore
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