Effect of screening on ovarian cancer mortality: the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening randomized controlled trial

SS Buys, E Partridge, A Black, CC Johnson… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Screening for ovarian cancer with cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) and transvaginal
ultrasound has an unknown effect on mortality. Objective To evaluate the effect of screening …

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in the 2011–2012 season: protection against each circulating virus and the effect of prior vaccination on estimates

SE Ohmit, MG Thompson, JG Petrie… - Clinical infectious …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. Each year, the US Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network examines the
effectiveness of influenza vaccines in preventing medically attended acute respiratory …

[PDF][PDF] Racial disparities in treatment and survival among women with early-stage breast cancer

D Hershman, R McBride, JS Jacobson… - Journal of Clinical …, 2005 - academia.edu
Purpose Black women with breast cancer are known to have poorer survival than white
women. Suboptimal treatment may compromise the survival benefits of adjuvant …

Race and colorectal cancer disparities: health-care utilization vs different cancer susceptibilities

AO Laiyemo, C Doubeni, PF Pinsky… - Journal of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background It is unclear whether the disproportionately higher incidence and mortality from
colorectal cancer among blacks compared with whites reflect differences in health-care …

Noninvasive serum fibrosis markers for screening and staging chronic hepatitis C virus patients in a large US cohort

SD Holmberg, M Lu, LB Rupp… - Clinical infectious …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background. Liver biopsy remains critical for staging liver disease in hepatitis C virus (HCV)–
infected persons, but is a bottleneck to evaluation, follow-up, and treatment of HCV. Our …

Natural history of skeletal-related events in patients with breast, lung, or prostate cancer and metastases to bone: a 15-year study in two large US health systems

G Oster, L Lamerato, AG Glass, KE Richert-Boe… - Supportive Care in …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose To document the risk of skeletal complications in patients with bone metastases
from breast cancer (BC), lung cancer (LC), or prostate cancer (PC) in routine clinical …

Cumulative incidence of false-positive results in repeated, multimodal cancer screening

JM Croswell, BS Kramer, AR Kreimer… - The Annals of Family …, 2009 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Multiple cancer screening tests have been advocated for the general population;
however, clinicians and patients are not always well-informed of screening burdens. We …

Antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus infection and development of hepatocellular carcinoma in a US population

SC Gordon, LE Lamerato, LB Rupp, J Li… - Clinical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Antiviral therapy could reduce the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) among persons with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. We evaluated the …

Building a virtual cancer research organization

MC Hornbrook, G Hart, JL Ellis, DJ Bachman… - JNCI …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background: The Cancer Research Network (CRN) comprises the National Cancer
Institute and 11 nonprofit research centers affiliated with integrated health care delivery …

Mortality among persons in care with hepatitis C virus infection: the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS), 2006–2010

R Mahajan, J Xing, SJ Liu, KN Ly… - Clinical infectious …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Background. The number of deaths in hepatitis C virus (HCV)–infected persons recorded on
US death certificates has been increasing, but actual rates and causes of death in these …