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Alpa V. Patel is affiliated with the American Cancer Society in the United States and focuses primarily on medical research with a significant emphasis on oncology and genetics. The scope of their work spans multiple subfields including oncology, genetics, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Patel has contributed extensively to research in cancer risks and factors, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, physical activity and health, genetic associations and epidemiology, global cancer incidence and screening, nutritional studies and diet, as well as nutrition and health in aging. Their publication record includes 266 works categorized in medicine and 96 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Patel include Lauren R. Teras, Erika Rees-Punia, James V. Lacey, Christopher A. Haiman, and Marjorie L. McCullough, indicating an extensive network of partnerships within the cancer research community.

Patel's research has been published repeatedly in well-known scientific venues such as Cancer Research and Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, each with 14 publications; Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise with 12 publications; Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer, each with 9 publications.

Among recent key papers attributed to Patel's work are:

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer (2021, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • American Cancer Society guideline for diet and physical activity for cancer prevention (2020, CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians)
  • American Cancer Society nutrition and physical activity guideline for cancer survivors (2022, CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians)
  • Daily steps and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts (2022, The Lancet Public Health)

Patel also has a book publication titled INDIGENOUS ART AND CRAFT OF GUJARAT IN INTERIORS, scheduled for release in 2025 through Noble Science Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

    Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

  • Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable

    Kristin L. Campbell;Kerri M. Winters-Stone;Joachim Wiskemann;Anne M. May

  • American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention

    Lawrence H. Kushi;Colleen Doyle;Marji McCullough;Cheryl L. Rock

  • Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship

    Hannah Arem;Steven C. Moore;Alpa Patel;Patricia Hartge

  • Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States

    Farhad Islami;Ann Goding Sauer;Kimberly D. Miller;Rebecca L. Siegel

  • Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults

    Steven C. Moore;I-Min Lee;Elisabete Weiderpass;Peter T. Campbell

  • Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

    N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

  • Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults

    Alpa V. Patel;Leslie Bernstein;Anusila Deka;Heather Spencer Feigelson

  • Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis

    Steven C. Moore;Alpa V. Patel;Charles E. Matthews;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

  • American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable Report on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Cancer Prevention and Control.

    Alpa V Patel;Christine M Friedenreich;Steven C Moore;Sandra C Hayes

  • Exercise is medicine in oncology: Engaging clinicians to help patients move through cancer.

    Kathryn H. Schmitz;Anna M. Campbell;Martijn M. Stuiver;Martijn M. Stuiver;Martijn M. Stuiver;Bernardine M. Pinto

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

    Chunling Hu;Steven N Hart;Rohan Gnanaolivu;Hongyan Huang

  • American Cancer Society guideline for diet and physical activity for cancer prevention.

    Cheryl L. Rock;Cynthia Thomson;Ted Gansler;Susan M. Gapstur

  • Estrogen replacement therapy and ovarian cancer mortality in a large prospective study of US women.

    Carmen Rodriguez;Alpa V. Patel;Eugenia E. Calle;Eric J. Jacob

  • Ovarian Cancer Risk Factors by Histologic Subtype: An Analysis From the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium

    Nicolas Wentzensen;Elizabeth M. Poole;Britton Trabert;Emily White

  • A Pooled Analysis of Waist Circumference and Mortality in 650,000 Adults

    James R. Cerhan;Steven C. Moore;Eric J. Jacobs;Cari M. Kitahara

  • Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40-59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies

    Cari M. Kitahara;Alan J. Flint;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez;Leslie Bernstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Gapstur
Susan M. Gapstur American Cancer Society
Eric J. Jacobs
Eric J. Jacobs American Cancer Society
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital
Michael J. Thun
Michael J. Thun Emory University
Marjorie L. McCullough
Marjorie L. McCullough American Cancer Society
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eugenia E. Calle
Eugenia E. Calle American Cancer Society
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Harvard University
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte New York University

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