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Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

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Medicine

D-Index
72
Citations
41371
World Ranking
19743
National Ranking
9833

Overview

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, and genetics. Their work also touches on pulmonary and respiratory medicine as well as cancer research.

The scientist's major areas of study include global cancer incidence and screening, radiation dose and imaging, cancer risks and factors, breast cancer treatment studies, effects of radiation exposure, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, and colorectal cancer screening and detection.

Frequent publication venues for their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Causes & Control, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, and UNC Libraries.

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, including Neal D. Freedman, Montserrat García-Closas, Jacqueline B. Vo, Gretchen L. Gierach, and Meredith S. Shiels.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Risk of hematological malignancies from CT radiation exposure in children, adolescents and young adults, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Brain cancer after radiation exposure from CT examinations of children and young adults: results from the EPI-CT cohort study, 2022, The Lancet Oncology
  • Trends in Alcohol-Induced Deaths in the United States, 2000-2016, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Epidemiological Studies of Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation and Cancer: Summary Bias Assessment and Meta-Analysis, 2020, JNCI Monographs
  • Radiation-related genomic profile of papillary thyroid carcinoma after the Chernobyl accident, 2021, Science

Best Publications

  • Radiation exposure from CT scans in childhood and subsequent risk of leukaemia and brain tumours: a retrospective cohort study

    Mark S Pearce;Jane A Salotti;Mark P Little;Kieran McHugh

  • Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

    Amy Berrington De Gonzalez;Patricia Hartge;James R. Cerhan;Alan J. Flint

  • Radiation dose associated with common computed tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable risk of cancer.

    Rebecca Smith-Bindman;Jafi Lipson;Ralph Marcus;Kwang Pyo Kim

  • 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

  • Projected cancer risks from computed tomographic scans performed in the United States in 2007.

    Amy Berrington De González;Mahadevappa Mahesh;Kwang Pyo Kim;Mythreyi Bhargavan;Mythreyi Bhargavan

  • Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays: estimates for the UK and 14 other countries.

    Amy Berrington de González;Sarah Darby

  • HPV in the etiology of human cancer

    Nubia Munoz;Xavier Castellsague;Amy Berrington De Gonzalez;Lutz Gissmann

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cervical cancer and use of hormonal contraceptives: a systematic review

    Jennifer S Smith;Jane Green;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez;Paul Appleby

  • Cervical cancer and hormonal contraceptives: Collaborative reanalysis of individual data for 16 573 women with cervical cancer and 35 509 women without cervical cancer from 24 epidemiological studies

    P Appleby;V Beral;A Berrington de González

  • Benefits and Harms of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Strategies: A Comparative Modeling Study for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

    Harry J. de Koning;Rafael Meza;Sylvia K. Plevritis;Kevin ten Haaf

  • Proportion of second cancers attributable to radiotherapy treatment in adults: a cohort study in the US SEER cancer registries.

    Amy Berrington de Gonzalez;Rochelle E Curtis;Stephen F Kry;Ethel Gilbert

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

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

  • Duration and magnitude of the postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism in middle aged women: prospective cohort study

    Siân Sweetland;Jane Green;Bette Liu;Amy Berrington de González

  • 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

  • Cancer risks associated with external radiation from diagnostic imaging procedures

    Martha S. Linet;Thomas L. Slovis;Donald L. Miller;Ruth Kleinerman

  • Total Cholesterol and Cancer Risk in a Large Prospective Study in Korea

    Cari M. Kitahara;Amy Berrington de González;Neal D. Freedman;Rachel Huxley

  • Comparison of risk factors for invasive squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the cervix: collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 8,097 women with squamous cell carcinoma and 1,374 women with adenocarcinoma from 12 epidemiological studies.

    Amy Berrington De Gonzalez;Jane Green

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha S. Linet
Martha S. Linet National Institutes of Health
Patricia Hartge
Patricia Hartge National Institutes of Health
Hans-Olov Adami
Hans-Olov Adami Karolinska Institute
Catherine Schairer
Catherine Schairer National Institutes of Health
Alpa V. Patel
Alpa V. Patel American Cancer Society
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer
Howard D. Sesso
Howard D. Sesso Harvard Medical School
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Mark P. Purdue
Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital

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