Breast Cancer
Ahmed S, Thomas G, Ghoussaini M, et al. Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2. Nat Genet. 2009;41:585-590
Chang ET, Milne RL, Phillips KA, Figueiredo JC, Sangaramoorthy M, Keegan TH, Andrulis IL, Hopper JL, Goodwin PJ, O'Malley FP, Weerasooriya N, Apicella C, Southey MC, Friedlander ML, Giles GG, Whittemore AS, West DW, John EM. Family history of breast cancer and all-cause mortality after breast cancer diagnosis in the breast cancer family registry. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;117:167-176
Davis SR, Wolfe R, Farrugia H, Ferdinand A, Bell RJ. The incidence of invasive breast cancer among women prescribed testosterone for low libido. J Sex Med. 2009;6:1850-1856
Dunning AM, Healey CS, Baynes C, et al. Association of ESR1 gene tagging SNPs with breast cancer risk. Hum Mol Genet. 2009;18:1131-1139
Fehringer G, Boyd NF, Knight JA, Paterson AD, Dite GS, Giles GG, Southey MC, Andrulis IL, Hopper JL, Ozcelik H. Family-based genetic association study of insulin-like growth factor i microsatellite markers and premenopausal breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;118:415-424
Field KM, Jenkins MA, Friedlander ML, McKinley JM, Price MA, Weideman P, Keogh LA, McLachlan SA, Lindeman GJ, Hopper JL, Butow PN, Phillips KA. Predictors of the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by women at high risk for breast cancer. Eur J Cancer. 2009;45:551-560
Gaudet MM, Milne RL, Cox A, et al. Five polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: Results from the breast cancer association consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:1610-1616
Giles GG, Bell R, Farrugia H, Thursfield V. Decrease in breast cancer incidence following a rapid fall in use of hormone replacement therapy in Australia. Med J Aust. 2009;190:164; author reply 164-165
Johnatty SE, Beesley J, Chen X, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Giles GG, Goldgar DE, Chenevix-Trench G, Spurdle AB. The BARD1 Cys557Ser polymorphism and breast cancer risk: An australian case-control and family analysis. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;115:145-150
Johnatty SE, Couch FJ, Fredericksen Z, et al. No evidence that GATA3 rs570613 SNP modifies breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;117:371-379
Kiely BE, Jenkins MA, McKinley JM, Friedlander ML, Weideman P, Milne RL, McLachlan SA, Hopper JL, Phillips KA. Contralateral risk-reducing mastectomy in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and other high-risk women in the Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConFab). Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009
Lijovic M, Davis SR, Fradkin P, Bradbury J, La China M, Schwarz M, Wolfe R, Farrugia H, Bell RJ. The relationship between knowledge of family history and cancer characteristics at diagnosis in women newly-diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Fam Cancer. 2009;8:299-305 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19221894
Milne RL, Benitez J, Nevanlinna H, et al. Risk of estrogen receptor-positive and -negative breast cancer and single-nucleotide polymorphism 2q35-rs13387042. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2009;101:1012-1018
Osorio A, Milne RL, Pita G, et al. Evaluation of a candidate breast cancer associated SNP in ERCC4 as a risk modifier in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/BRCA2 (CIMBA). Br J Cancer. 2009;101:2048-2054
Phillips KA, Milne RL, West DW, Goodwin PJ, Giles GG, Chang ET, Figueiredo JC, Friedlander ML, Keegan TH, Glendon G, Apicella C, O'Malley FP, Southey MC, Andrulis IL, John EM, Hopper JL. Prediagnosis reproductive factors and all-cause mortality for women with breast cancer in the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:1792-1797
Rebbeck TR, Antoniou AC, Llopis TC, et al. No association of tgfb1 l10p genotypes and breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: A multi-centre cohort study. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;115:185-192
Colorectal Cancer
Kelsall HLB, L.; Muller, D.; Haydon, A. M.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G. The effect of socioeconomic status on survival from colorectal cancer in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Soc Sci Med. 2009;68:290-297
Keogh LA, van Vliet CM, Studdert DM, Maskiell JA, Macrae FA, St John DJ, Gaff CL, Young MA, Southey MC, Giles GG, Rosenthal DA, Hopper JL, Jenkins MA. Is uptake of genetic testing for colorectal cancer influenced by knowledge of insurance implications? Med J Aust. 2009;191:255-258
Prostate Cancer
Al Olama AA, Kote-Jarai Z, Giles GG, et al. Multiple loci on 8q24 associated with prostate cancer susceptibility. Nat Genet. 2009;41:1058-1060
Bolton D, Severi G, Millar JL, Kelsall H, Davidson AJ, Smith C, Bagnato M, Pedersen J, Giles G, Syme R. A whole of population-based series of radical prostatectomy in victoria, 1995 to 2000. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2009;33:527-533
Comstock CE, Augello MA, Benito RP, Karch J, Tran TH, Utama FE, Tindall EA, Wang Y, Burd CJ, Groh EM, Hoang HN, Giles GG, Severi G, Hayes VM, Henderson BE, Le Marchand L, Kolonel LN, Haiman CA, Baffa R, Gomella LG, Knudsen ES, Rui H, Henshall SM, Sutherland RL, Knudsen KE. Cyclin D1 splice variants: Polymorphism, risk, and isoform-specific regulation in prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2009;15:5338-5349
Eeles RA, Kote-Jarai Z, Al Olama AA, Giles GG, et al. Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study. Nat Genet. 2009;41:1116-1121
Guy M, Kote-Jarai Z, Giles GG, et al. Identification of new genetic risk factors for prostate cancer. Asian J Androl. 2009;11:49-55
Macinnis R, Antoniou AC, Eeles RA, Severi G, Guy M, McGuffog L, Hall AL, O'Brien LT, Wilkinson RA, Dearnaley DP, Ardern-Jones AT, Horwich A, Khoo VS, Parker CC, Huddart RA, McCredie MR, Smith C, Southey MC, Staples MP, English DR, Hopper JL, Giles GG, Easton D. Prostate cancer segregation analyses using 4390 families from uk and australian population-based studies. Genetic Epidemiology. 2009:1-9
Muller DCS, G.; Baglietto, L.; Krishnan, K.; English, D. R.; Hopper, J. L.; Giles, G. G. Dietary patterns and prostate cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:3126-3129
Other Cancer
Batty GD, Barzi F, Huxley R, Chang CY, Jee SH, Jamrozik K, Kim HC, Fang X, Lam TH, Woodward M. Obesity and liver cancer mortality in asia: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration. Cancer Epidemiol. 2009;33:469-472
Cust AE, Schmid H, Maskiell JA, Jetann J, Ferguson M, Holland EA, Agha-Hamilton C, Jenkins MA, Kelly J, Kefford RF, Giles GG, Armstrong BK, Aitken JF, Hopper JL, Mann GJ. Population-based, case-control-family design to investigate genetic and environmental influences on melanoma risk: Australian Melanoma Family Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2009;170:1541-1554
Dally M, Rosenthal M, Drummond K, Murphy M, Cher L, Ashley D, Thursfield V, Giles G. Radiotherapy management of patients diagnosed with glioma in Victoria (1998-2000): A retrospective cohort study. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2009;53:318-324
Genkinger JM, Spiegelman D, Anderson KE, Bergkvist L, Bernstein L, van den Brandt PA, English DR, Freudenheim JL, Fuchs CS, Giles GG, Giovannucci E, Hankinson SE, Horn-Ross PL, Leitzmann M, Mannisto S, Marshall JR, McCullough ML, Miller AB, Reding DJ, Robien K, Rohan TE, Schatzkin A, Stevens VL, Stolzenberg-Solomon RZ, Verhage BA, Wolk A, Ziegler RG, Smith-Warner SA. Alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk: A pooled analysis of fourteen cohort studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:765-776
Jayasekara H, Karahalios E, Thursfield V, Giles GG, English DR. Season of diagnosis has no effect on survival from malignant melanoma. Int J Cancer. 2009;125:488-490
Lee JE, Mannisto S, Spiegelman D, et al. Intakes of fruit, vegetables, and carotenoids and renal cell cancer risk: A pooled analysis of 13 prospective studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:1730-1739
Song H, Ramus SJ, Tyrer J, et al. A genome-wide association study identifies a new ovarian cancer susceptibility locus on 9p22.2. Nat Genet. 2009;41:996-1000
Terry MB, Howe G, Pogoda JM, Zhang FF, Ahlbom A, Choi W, Giles GG, Little J, Lubin F, Menegoz F, Ryan P, Schlehofer B, Preston-Martin S. An international case-control study of adult diet and brain tumor risk: A histology-specific analysis by food group. Ann Epidemiol. 2009;19:161-171
Other Conditions
Ansary-Moghaddam AM, A.; Lam, T. H.; Jamrozik, K.; Tamakoshi, A.; Fang, X.; Suh, I.; Barzi, F.; Huxley, R.; Woodward, M. Smoking and the risk of upper aero digestive tract cancers for men and women in the Asia-Pacific region. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2009;6:1358-1370
Asia Pacific Cohort Studies C. Impact of cigarette smoking on the relationship between body mass index and coronary heart disease: A pooled analysis of 3264 stroke and 2706 chd events in 378579 individuals in the Asia Pacific region. BMC Public Health. 2009;9:294
Aung KZR, L.; Chong, E. W.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Guymer, R. H. Non-mydriatic digital macular photography: How good is the second eye photograph? Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2009;16:254-261
Baglietto LE, D. R.; Hopper, J. L.; MacInnis, R. J.; Morris, H. A.; Tilley, W. D.; Krishnan, K.; Giles, G. G. Circulating steroid hormone concentrations in postmenopausal women in relation to body size and composition. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2009;115:171-179
Brazionis L, Rowley K, Itsiopoulos C, O'Dea K. Plasma carotenoids and diabetic retinopathy. The British journal of nutrition. 2009;101:270-277
Chen LT, A. M.; Moon, L.; Mitchell, P.; Dobson, A.; Giles, G.; Hobbs, M.; Phillips, P. J.; Shaw, J. E.; Simmons, D.; Simons, L. A.; Fitzgerald, A. P.; De Backer, G.; De Bacquer, D. Recalibration and validation of the SCORE risk chart in the australian population: The AusCORE chart. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2009;16:562-570
Chong EWR, L. D.; Simpson, J. A.; Hodge, A. M.; Aung, K. Z.; Dolphin, T. K.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Guymer, R. H. Fat consumption and its association with age-related macular degeneration. Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127:674-680
Chong EWS, J. A.; Robman, L. D.; Hodge, A. M.; Aung, K. Z.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Guymer, R. H. Red meat and chicken consumption and its association with age-related macular degeneration. Am J Epidemiol. 2009;169:867-876
Constantine CCA, G. J.; Vulpe, C. D.; McLaren, C. E.; Bahlo, M.; Yeap, H. L.; Gertig, D. M.; Osborne, N. J.; Bertalli, N. A.; Beckman, K. B.; Chen, V.; Matak, P.; McKie, A. T.; Delatycki, M. B.; Olynyk, J. K.; English, D. R.; Southey, M. C.; Giles, G. G.; Hopper, J. L.; Allen, K. J.; Gurrin, L. C. A novel association between a SNP in CYBRD1 and serum ferritin levels in a cohort study of HFE hereditary haemochromatosis. Br J Haematol. 2009;147:140-149
Davies-Tuck MLW, A. E.; Wang, Y.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Cicuttini, F. The natural history of bone marrow lesions in community-based adults with no clinical knee osteoarthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009;68:904-908
Davies-Tuck MLW, A. E.; Forbes, A.; Wang, Y.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Cicuttini, F. Smoking is associated with increased cartilage loss and persistence of bone marrow lesions over 2 years in community-based individuals. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2009;48:1227-1231
Dobbinson SJ, White V, Wakefield MA, Jamsen KM, Livingston PM, English DR, Simpson JA. Adolescents' use of purpose built shade in secondary schools: Cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2009;338:b95
Gurrin LCB, N. A.; Dalton, G. W.; Osborne, N. J.; Constantine, C. C.; McLaren, C. E.; English, D. R.; Gertig, D. M.; Delatycki, M. B.; Nicoll, A. J.; Southey, M. C.; Hopper, J. L.; Giles, G. G.; Anderson, G. J.; Olynyk, J. K.; Powell, L. W.; Allen, K. J. HFE C282Y/H63D compound heterozygotes are at low risk of hemochromatosis-related morbidity. Hepatology. 2009;50:94-101
Hanna FST, A. J.; Wluka, A. E.; Wang, Y.; Urquhart, D. M.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Cicuttini, F. M. Women have increased rates of cartilage loss and progression of cartilage defects at the knee than men: A gender study of adults without clinical knee osteoarthritis. Menopause. 2009;16:666-670
Hodge AMJ, A. J.; English, D. R.; O'Dea, K.; Giles, G. G. NMR-determined lipoprotein subclass profile predicts type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009;83:132-139
Hodge AMS, J. A.; Fridman, M.; Rowley, K.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Su, Q.; O'Dea, K. Evaluation of an FFQ for assessment of antioxidant intake using plasma biomarkers in an ethnically diverse population. Public Health Nutr. 2009;12:2438-2447
Huxley RRN, K.; Lam, T. H.; Barzi, F.; Batty, D.; Czernichow, S.; Ueshima, H.; Kim, H. C.; Wong, J. W.; Fang, X.; Feigin, V.; Woodward, M. Impact of cigarette smoking on the relationship between body mass index and coronary heart disease: A pooled analysis of 3264 stroke and 2706 chd events in 378579 individuals in the Asia Pacific region. BMC Public Health. 2009;9:294
Kandane-Rathnayake RK, Matheson MC, Simpson JA, Tang ML, Johns DP, Meszaros D, Wood-Baker R, Feather I, Morrison S, Jenkins MA, Giles GG, Hopper J, Abramson MJ, Dharmage SC, Walters EH. Adherence to asthma management guidelines by middle-aged adults with current asthma.Thorax. 2009;64:1025-1031
Kengne APN, K.; Barzi, F.; Lam, T. H.; Huxley, R.; Gu, D.; Patel, A.; Kim, H. C.; Woodward, M. Smoking, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in men in the Asia Pacific region. J Diabetes. 2009;1:173-181
Lee CMB, F.; Woodward, M.; Batty, G. D.; Giles, G. G.; Wong, J. W.; Jamrozik, K.; Lam, T. H.; Ueshima, H.; Kim, H. C.; Gu, D. F.; Schooling, M.; Huxley, R. R. Adult height and the risks of cardiovascular disease and major causes of death in the Asia-Pacific region: 21,000 deaths in 510,000 men and women. Int J Epidemiol. 2009;38:1060-1071
Matheson MC, Walters EH, Simpson JA, Wharton CL, Ponsonby AL, Johns DP, Jenkins MA, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Abramson MJ, Dharmage SC. Relevance of the hygiene hypothesis to early vs. Late onset allergic rhinitis. Clin Exp Allergy. 2009;39:370-378
Nakamura KB, F.; Huxley, R.; Lam, T. H.; Suh, I.; Woo, J.; Kim, H. C.; Feigin, V. L.; Gu, D.; Woodward, M. Does cigarette smoking exacerbate the effect of total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol on the risk of cardiovascular diseases? Heart. 2009;95:909-916
Nakamura KH, R.; Ansary-Moghaddam, A.; Woodward, M. The hazards and benefits associated with smoking and smoking cessation in Asia: A meta-analysis of prospective studies. Tob Control. 2009;18:345-353
Osborne NJ, Gurrin LC, Allen KJ, Constantine CC, Delatycki MB, McLaren CE, Gertig DM, Anderson GJ, Southey MC, Olynyk JK, Powell LW, Hopper JL, Giles GG, English DR. HFE C282Y homozygotes are at increased risk of breast and colorectal cancer. Hepatology. 2009;51
O'Seaghdha CMP, V.; Lam, T. H.; McGinn, S.; Barzi, F.; Gu, D. F.; Cass, A.; Suh, I.; Muntner, P.; Giles, G. G.; Ueshima, H.; Woodward, M.; Huxley, R. Blood pressure is a major risk factor for renal death: An analysis of 560 352 participants from the Asia-Pacific region. Hypertension. 2009;54:509-515
Stone J, Folkerd E, Doody D, Schroen C, Treloar SA, Giles GG, Pike MC, English DR, Southey MC, Hopper JL, Dowsett M. Familial correlations in postmenopausal serum concentrations of sex steroid hormones and other mitogens: A twins and sisters study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2009;94:4793-4800
Teichtahl AJD-T, M. L.; Wluka, A. E.; Jones, G.; Cicuttini, F. M. Change in knee angle influences the rate of medial tibial cartilage volume loss in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2009;17:8-11
Teichtahl AJW, A. E.; Forbes, A.; Wang, Y.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Cicuttini, F. M. Longitudinal effect of vigorous physical activity on patella cartilage morphology in people without clinical knee disease. Arthritis Rheum. 2009;61:1095-1102
Teichtahl AJW, A. E.; Wang, Y.; Hanna, F.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Cicuttini, F. M. Obesity and adiposity are associated with the rate of patella cartilage volume loss over 2 years in adults without knee osteoarthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009;68:909-913
Wang YD-T, M. L.; Wluka, A. E.; Forbes, A.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; O'Sullivan, R.; Cicuttini, F. M. Dietary fatty acid intake affects the risk of developing bone marrow lesions in healthy middle-aged adults without clinical knee osteoarthritis: A prospective cohort study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2009;11:R63
Wang YS, J. A.; Wluka, A. E.; Teichtahl, A. J.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Graves, S.; Cicuttini, F. M. Relationship between body adiposity measures and risk of primary knee and hip replacement for osteoarthritis: A prospective cohort study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2009;11:R31
Wang YS, J. A.; Wluka, A. E.; Urquhart, D. M.; English, D. R.; Giles, G. G.; Graves, S.; Cicuttini, F. M. Reduced rates of primary joint replacement for osteoarthritis in italian and Greek migrants to Australia: The Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. Arthritis Res Ther. 2009;11:R86
Yip LZ, S.; Irwin, D.; Severi, G.; Hopper, J.; Giles, G.; Harrap, S.; Sinclair, R.; Ellis, J. Gene-wide association study between the aromatase gene (CYP19A1) and female pattern hair loss. Br J Dermatol. 2009;161:289-294
Scientific Methods
Field K, Kosmider S, Johns J, Farrugia H, Hastie I, Croxford M, Chapman M, Harold M, Murigu N, Gibbs P. Linking data from hospital and cancer registry databases: Should this be standard practice? Intern Med J. 2009;40:566-573
Vrijheid M, Armstrong BK, Bedard D, Brown J, Deltour I, Iavarone I, Krewski D, Lagorio S, Moore S, Richardson L, Giles GG, McBride M, Parent ME, Siemiatycki J, Cardis E. Recall bias in the assessment of exposure to mobile phones. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2009;19:369-381
Vrijheid M, Mann S, Vecchia P, et al. Determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study: Implications for exposure assessment. Occup Environ Med. 2009;66:664-671
Vrijheid M, Richardson L, Armstrong BK, Auvinen A, Berg G, Carroll M, Chetrit A, Deltour I, Feychting M, Giles GG, Hours M, Iavarone I, Lagorio S, Lonn S, McBride M, Parent ME, Sadetzki S, Salminen T, Sanchez M, Schlehofer B, Schuz J, Siemiatycki J, Tynes T, Woodward A, Yamaguchi N, Cardis E. Quantifying the impact of selection bias caused by nonparticipation in a case-control study of mobile phone use. Ann Epidemiol. 2009;19:33-41