• Smoking and breast cancer risk by race/ethnicity and oestrogen and progesterone receptor status: the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Maskarinec, Gertraud; Wilkens, Lynne R; Haiman, Christopher A.; Le Marchand, Loïc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-18)
      <i>Background</i> - The purpose of this study was to examine if the smoking-related higher breast cancer risk was similar for the five race/ethnicity groups in the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study and by oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptor status.<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - From 1993 to 2013, we followed 67 313 women who were enrolled in the MEC study at 45–75 years of age. We identified ...
    • Smoking and pancreatic cancer: a sex-specific analysis in the Multiethnic Cohort study 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Le Marchand, Loïc; Setiawan, Veronica Wendy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-17)
      Purpose To examine whether the detrimental smoking-related association with pancreatic cancer (PC) is the same for women as for men.<p> <p>Methods We analyzed data from 192,035 participants aged 45–75 years, enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort study (MEC) in 1993–1996. We identifed PC cases via linkage to the Hawaii and California Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program cancer registries ...
    • Smoking-Related Risks of Colorectal Cancer by Anatomical Subsite and Sex 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Wilkens, Lynne R; Haiman, Christopher A.; Le Marchand, Loïc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-23)
      The purpose of this study was to examine whether the increased risk of colorectal cancer due to cigarette smoking differed by anatomical subsite or sex. We analyzed data from 188,052 participants aged 45–75 years (45% men) who were enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort Study in 1993–1996. During a mean follow-up period of 16.7 years, we identified 4,879 incident cases of invasive colorectal adenocarcinoma. ...