Point/Counterpoint:

Point: Surrogate End Point Biomarkers Are Likely To Be Limited in Their Usefulness in the Development of Cancer Chemoprevention Agents against Sporadic Cancers

William B. Armstrong, Thomas H. Taylor, and Frank L. Meyskens, Jr.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 589-592 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Counterpoint: Because Some Surrogate End Point Biomarkers Measure the Neoplastic Process They Will Have High Utility in the Development of Cancer Chemopreventive Agents against Sporadic Cancers

Gary J. Kelloff, Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, Gary B. Gordon, Ernest T. Hawk, and Caroline C. Sigman
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 593-596 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hypothesis:

Calcium, Dairy Products, and Risk of Prostate Cancer in a Prospective Cohort of United States Men

Carmen Rodriguez, Marjorie L. McCullough, Alison M. Mondul, Eric J. Jacobs, Dorna Fakhrabadi-Shokoohi, Edward L. Giovannucci, Michael J. Thun, and Eugenia E. Calle
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 597-603 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research Articles:

Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Prostate Cancer in Middle-Aged Men

Lora A. Plaskon, David F. Penson, Thomas L. Vaughan, and Janet L. Stanford
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 604-609 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cancer Worry Is Associated with Abnormal Prostate-specific Antigen Levels in Men Participating in a Community Screening Program

Lorenzo Cohen, Rachel T. Fouladi, Richard J. Babaian, Viju A. Bhadkamkar, Patricia A. Parker, Cindy Carmack Taylor, Murray A. Smith, Ellen R. Gritz, and Karen Basen-Engquist
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 610-617 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SRD5A2 Gene Polymorphisms and the Risk of Prostate Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Christos Ntais, Anastasia Polycarpou, and John P. A. Ioannidis
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 618-624 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Detection of Change in Mammographic Density

J. Stone, A. Gunasekara, L. J. Martin, M. Yaffe, S. Minkin, and N. F. Boyd
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 625-630 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Calcium, Vitamin D, and Risk for Colorectal Adenoma: Dependency on Vitamin D Receptor BsmI Polymorphism and Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use?

Sonia M. Boyapati, Roberd M. Bostick, Katherine A. McGlynn, Michael F. Fina, Walter M. Roufail, Kim R. Geisinger, Michael Wargovich, Ann Coker, and James R. Hebert
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 631-637 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Incidence of Anal Cytological Abnormalities in a Cohort of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Women

Amanda J. Durante, Ann B. Williams, Maria Da Costa, Teresa M. Darragh, Kaveh Khoshnood, and Joel M. Palefsky
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 638-642 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maternal Lung Cancer and Testicular Cancer Risk in the Offspring

Magnus Kaijser, Olof Akre, Sven Cnattingius, and Anders Ekbom
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 643-646 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Short Communications:

Pregnancy Hormones, Pre-eclampsia, and Implications for Breast Cancer Risk in the Offspring

Rulla Tamimi, Pagona Lagiou, Lars J. Vatten, Lorelei Mucci, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Susan Hellerstein, Anders Ekbom, Hans-Olov Adami, and Chung-Cheng Hsieh
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 647-650 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The Effects of Colorectal Cancer Screening on Health Attitudes and Practices

Anne Miles, Jane Wardle, Kirsten McCaffery, Sara Williamson, and Wendy Atkin
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 651-655 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Comparison of Self-reported Colorectal Cancer Screening with Medical Records

Lisa Madlensky, John McLaughlin, and Vivek Goel
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 656-659 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Increased Phospho-AKT (Ser⁴⁷³) Expression in Bronchial Dysplasia: Implications for Lung Cancer Prevention Studies

Anne S. Tsao, Timothy McDonnell, Stephen Lam, Joe B. Putnam, Nebiyou Bekele, Waun Ki Hong, and Jonathan M. Kurie
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 660-664 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soy and Isoflavone Consumption in Relation to Prostate Cancer Risk in China

Marion M. Lee, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Jeffrey S. Chang, Mercy Wey, Run-Tian Wang, and Ann W. Hsing
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 665-668 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Body Size at Birth and Adulthood and the Risk for Germ-cell Testicular Cancer

Lorenzo Richiardi, Johan Askling, Fredrik Granath, and Olof Akre
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 669-673 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Combination of DNA Repair Gene Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Increased Levels of DNA Adducts in a Population-based Study

Giuseppe Matullo, Marco Peluso, Silvia Polidoro, Simonetta Guarrera, Armelle Munnia, Vittorio Krogh, Giovanna Masala, Franco Berrino, Salvatore Panico, Rosario Tumino, Paolo Vineis, and Domenico Palli
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 674-677 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

The N314D Polymorphism of Galactose-1-Phosphate Uridyl Transferase Does Not Modify the Risk of Ovarian Cancer

W. L. Alan Fung, Harvey Risch, John McLaughlin, Barry Rosen, David Cole, Danny Vesprini, and Steven A. Narod
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 678-680 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Null Results in Brief:

No Modifying Effect of NAT1, GSTM1, and GSTT1 on the Relation between Smoking and Colorectal Cancer Risk

Olga L. van der Hel, H. Bas Bueno de Mesquita, Mark Roest, Barbara Slothouber, Carla van Gils, Paulus A. H. van Noord, Diederick E. Grobbee, and Petra H. M. Peeters
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 681-682 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Correspondence re: Feyler et al., Point: Myeloperoxidase ^-463G A Polymorphism and Lung Cancer Risk. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomark. Prev., 11: 1550–1554, 2002, and Xu et al., Counterpoint: The Myeloperoxidase ^-463G A Polymorphism Does Not Decrease Lung Cancer Susceptibility in Caucasians. 11: 1555–1559, 2002

Heike Dally, Helmut Bartsch, and Angela Risch
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 683 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correspondence re: Simon et al., Do Thyroid Disorders Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer? 11: 1574–1578, 2002

Andrea Altieri, Alessandra Tavani, Silvano Gallus, Cristina Bosetti, Renato Talamini, Silvia Franceschi, Fabio Levi, Carlo La Vecchia, Michael S. Simon, and Mei-Tzu C. Tang
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2003 12: 684-686 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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