DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Cancer Epidemiology

Research Abstract

Our projects focus on the role of sex steroids, including estrogen, progesterone and androgens in disease of the reproductive tract. A major focus of the laboratory is the role of estrogen in the development of breast cancer, endometriosis and uterine leiomyomata.

Publications

• Tworoger SS, Missmer SA, Eliassen AH, Spiegelman D, Folkerd E, Dowsett M, Barbieri RL, Hankinson SE.The association of plasma DHEA and DHEA sulfate with breast cancer risk in predominantly premenopausal women.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006 May;15(5
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• Page JH, Colditz GA, Rifai N, Barbieri RL, Willett WC, Hankinson SE.Plasma adrenal androgens and risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women.Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004 Jun;13(6):1032-6.
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• Barbieri RL, Gargiulo AR.Metformin for the treatment of the polycystic ovary syndrome.Minerva Ginecol 2004 Feb;56(1):63-79.
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• Cramer DW, Barbieri RL, Fraer AR, Harlow BL.Determinants of early follicular phase gonadotrophin and estradiol concentrations in women of late reproductive age.Hum Reprod 2002 Jan;17(1):221-7.
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• Hankinson SE, Willett WC, Manson JE, Colditz GA, Hunter DJ, Spiegelman D, Barbieri RL, Speizer FE.Plasma sex steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.J Natl Cancer Inst 1998 Sep 2;90(17):1292-9.
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• Ginsburg ES, Gao X, Shea BF, Barbieri RL.Half-life of estradiol in postmenopausal women.Gynecol Obstet Invest 1998;45(1):45-8.
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