Editorials:

Children and Increased Susceptibility to Environmental Carcinogens: Evidence or Empathy?

Christopher Paul Wild and Jos Kleinjans
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1389-1394 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research Articles:

Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms and Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis

Christos Ntais, Anastasia Polycarpou, and John P. A. Ioannidis
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1395-1402 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Prospective Study of Cruciferous Vegetables and Prostate Cancer

Edward Giovannucci, Eric B. Rimm, Yan Liu, Meir J. Stampfer, and Walter C. Willett
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1403-1409 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Endogenous Sex Hormones and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study Nested within the Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial

Chu Chen, Noel S. Weiss, Frank Z. Stanczyk, S. Kay Lewis, Dante DiTommaso, Ruth Etzioni, Matt J. Barnett, and Gary E. Goodman
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1410-1416 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Body Size and Composition and Prostate Cancer Risk

Robert J. MacInnis, Dallas R. English, Dorota M. Gertig, John L. Hopper, and Graham G. Giles
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1417-1421 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fatty Acids and Risk of Prostate Cancer in a Nested Case-Control Study in Male Smokers

Satu Männistö, Pirjo Pietinen, Mikko J. Virtanen, Irma Salminen, Demetrius Albanes, Edward Giovannucci, and Jarmo Virtamo
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1422-1428 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Comprehensive Assessment of Candidate Genes and Serological Markers for the Detection of Prostate Cancer

Robert K. Nam, William W. Zhang, John Trachtenberg, Michael A. S. Jewett, Marjan Emami, Danny Vesprini, William Chu, Minnie Ho, Joan Sweet, Andrew Evans, Ants Toi, Michael Pollak, and Steven A. Narod
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1429-1437 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meningioma: Is There an Association with Human Leukocyte Antigens?

Helmut K. G. Machulla, Frank Steinborn, Michail Tschigrjai, Jürgen Langner, and Nikolai G. Rainov
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1438-1442 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cancer in First-Degree Relatives and Risk of Glioma in Adults

Deirdre A. Hill, Peter D. Inskip, William R. Shapiro, Robert G. Selker, Howard A. Fine, Peter M. Black, and Martha S. Linet
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1443-1448 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immune Profiling of Plasma and Cervical Secretions Using Recycling Immunoaffinity Chromatography

Philip E. Castle, Terry M. Phillips, Allan Hildesheim, Rolando Herrero, M. Concepcion Bratti, Ana Cecilia Rodríguez, Lidia Ana Morera, Ruth Pfeiffer, Martha L. Hutchinson, Ligia A. Pinto, and Mark Schiffman
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1449-1456 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Free Estradiol and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women: Comparison of Measured and Calculated Values

Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1457-1461 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Population-Based Case-Control Study of the Arg399Gln Polymorphism in DNA Repair Gene XRCC1 and Risk of Breast Cancer

Xiao-Ou Shu, Qiuyin Cai, Yu-Tang Gao, Wanqing Wen, Fan Jin, and Wei Zheng
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1462-1467 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Effect of Raloxifene on Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-3, and Leptin in Premenopausal Women at High Risk for Developing Breast Cancer

Jennifer Eng-Wong, Stephen D. Hursting, David Venzon, Susan N. Perkins, and Jo Anne Zujewski
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1468-1473 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adipose Concentrations of Organochlorine Compounds and Breast Cancer Recurrence in Long Island, New York

Joshua E. Muscat, Julie A. Britton, Mirjana V. Djordjevic, Marc L. Citron, Margaret Kemeny, Erna Busch-Devereaux, Brian Pittman, and Steven D. Stellman
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1474-1478 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Modeling Familial Clustered Breast Cancer Using Published Data

M. A. Jonker, C. E. Jacobi, W. E. Hoogendoorn, N. J. D. Nagelkerke, Geertruida H. de Bock, and Johannes C. van Houwelingen
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1479-1485 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor, Celecoxib, Prevents the Development of Mammary Tumors in HER-2/neu Mice

Susan Lanza-Jacoby, Sheldon Miller, John Flynn, Kathleen Gallatig, Constantine Daskalakis, Jaime L. Masferrer, Ben S. Zweifel, Harjeet Sembhi, and Irma H. Russo
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1486-1491 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Subsequent Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Middle-Aged and Elderly Japanese Men and Women: Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study

Tetsuya Otani, Motoki Iwasaki, Seiichiro Yamamoto, Tomotaka Sobue, Tomoyuki Hanaoka, Manami Inoue, and Shoichiro Tsugane
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1492-1500 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

r-1,t-2,3,c-4-Tetrahydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene in Human Urine: A Potential Biomarker for Assessing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolic Activation

Stephen S. Hecht, Menglan Chen, Haruhiko Yagi, Donald M. Jerina, and Steven G. Carmella
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1501-1508 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meta- and Pooled Analyses of GSTM1, GSTT1, GSTP1, and CYP1A1 Genotypes and Risk of Head and Neck Cancer

Mia Hashibe, Paul Brennan, Richard C. Strange, Rajani Bhisey, Ingolf Cascorbi, Philip Lazarus, Michael B. Oude Ophuis, Simone Benhamou, William D. Foulkes, Takahiko Katoh, Christiane Coutelle, Marjorie Romkes, Laura Gaspari, Emanuela Taioli, and Paolo Boffetta
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1509-1517 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Short Communications:

Loss of Aurora A/STK15/BTAK Overexpression Correlates with Transition of in Situ to Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Breast

Ashraful Hoque, Jennifer Carter, Weiya Xia, Mien-Chie Hung, Aysegul A. Sahin, Subrata Sen, and Scott M. Lippman
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1518-1522 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geographic Excess of Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer

Christopher C. Benz, Christina A. Clarke, and Dan H. Moore, II
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1523-1527 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The HRAS1 Variable Number of Tandem Repeats and Risk of Breast Cancer

Rulla M. Tamimi, Susan E. Hankinson, Shaofeng Ding, Virgilio Gagalang, Garry P. Larson, Donna Spiegelman, Graham A. Colditz, Theodore G. Krontiris, and David J. Hunter
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1528-1530 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Serum Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

Alan A. Arslan, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Eva Lundin, Andrea Micheli, Annekatrin Lukanova, Yelena Afanasyeva, Per Lenner, Vittorio Krogh, Paola Muti, Sabina Rinaldi, Rudolf Kaaks, Franco Berrino, Göran Hallmans, and Paolo Toniolo
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1531-1535 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Urinary Isothiocyanate Excretion, Brassica Consumption, and Gene Polymorphisms among Women Living in Shanghai, China

Jay H. Fowke, Xiao-Ou Shu, Qi Dai, Ayumi Shintani, C. Clifford Conaway, Fung-Lung Chung, Qiuyin Cai, Yu-Tang Gao, and Wei Zheng
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1536-1539 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Risk of Basal Cell Carcinoma in Relation to Alcohol Intake and Smoking

D. Michal Freedman, Alice Sigurdson, Michele Morin Doody, Kiyohiko Mabuchi, and Martha S. Linet
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1540-1543 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Metabolites of a Tobacco-Specific Lung Carcinogen in Nonsmoking Casino Patrons

Kristin E. Anderson, Jen Kliris, Lois Murphy, Steven G. Carmella, Shaomei Han, Carrie Link, Robin L. Bliss, Susan Puumala, Sharon E. Murphy, and Stephen S. Hecht
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1544-1546 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter to the Editor:

Correspondence re: C. R. Jonas et al., Dietary glycemic index, glycemic load, and risk of incident breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomark. Prev., 12: 573–577, 2003

Aaron R. Folsom, Zewditu Demissie, and Lisa Harnack
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1547 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Acknowledgment to Reviewers:

Acknowledgment to Reviewers

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 1548-1549 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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