Miles to go before we sleep: Racial inequities in health

DR Williams - Journal of health and social behavior, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Large, pervasive, and persistent racial inequalities exist in the onset, courses, and outcomes
of illness. A comprehensive understanding of the patterning of racial disparities indicates …

How many etiological subtypes of breast cancer: two, three, four, or more?

WF Anderson, PS Rosenberg, A Prat… - Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, divisible into a variable number of clinical
subtypes. A fundamental question is how many etiological classes underlie the clinical …

Human papillomavirus and rising oropharyngeal cancer incidence in the United States

AK Chaturvedi, EA Engels, RM Pfeiffer… - Journal of clinical …, 2011 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Recent increases in incidence and survival of oropharyngeal cancers in the United
States have been attributed to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, but empirical evidence …

A web tool for age–period–cohort analysis of cancer incidence and mortality rates

PS Rosenberg, DP Check, WF Anderson - Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers …, 2014 - AACR
Abstract Background: Age–period–cohort (APC) analysis can inform registry-based studies
of cancer incidence and mortality, but concerns about statistical identifiability and …

Race, socioeconomic status, and health: complexities, ongoing challenges, and research opportunities

DR Williams, SA Mohammed, J Leavell… - Annals of the new …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in
socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities …

Age-specific trends in incidence of noncardia gastric cancer in US adults

WF Anderson, MC Camargo, JF Fraumeni, P Correa… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context For the last 50 years, overall age-standardized incidence rates for noncardia gastric
cancer have steadily declined in most populations. However, overall rates are summary …

Male breast cancer: a population-based comparison with female breast cancer

WF Anderson, I Jatoi, J Tse… - Journal of Clinical …, 2010 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Because of its rarity, male breast cancer is often compared with female breast
cancer. Patients and Methods To compare and contrast male and female breast cancers, we …

Trends in incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in India over past three decades: a joinpoint and age–period–cohort analysis

D Dhamnetiya, P Patel, RP Jha, N Shri, M Singh… - BMC pulmonary …, 2021 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis, as a communicable disease, is an ongoing global epidemic that
accounts for high burden of global mortality and morbidity. Globally, with an estimated 10 …

Incidence of breast cancer in the United States: current and future trends

WF Anderson, HA Katki… - Journal of the National …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background The incidence of breast cancer increased in the United States until circa 2000
then decreased, mostly among women with estrogen receptor (ER)–positive cancers. Time …

Age-specific incidence of breast cancer subtypes: understanding the black–white crossover

CA Clarke, THM Keegan, J Yang… - Journal of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Breast cancer incidence is higher among black women than white women
before age 40 years, but higher among white women than black women after age 40 years …