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Overview

Garnet L. Anderson is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with a concentration on Oncology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their work addresses multiple topics related to health and disease, including:

  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Anderson has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials (2020, JAMA)
  • Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial (2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for the prevention of cardiovascular disease events: the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) randomized clinical trial (2022, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials and Clinical Practice (2024, JAMA)
  • Overweight, obesity, and postmenopausal invasive breast cancer risk: A secondary analysis of the women's health initiative randomized clinical trials (2020, UNC Libraries)

Their frequent coauthors include JoAnn E. Manson, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Aaron K. Aragaki, and Ross L. Prentice.

Anderson's research has appeared in several publication venues, prominently featuring UNC Libraries, Cancer Research, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Cancer, and JAMA.

Best Publications

  • Risks and benefits of estrogen plus progestin in healthy postmenopausal women: Principal results from the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Jacques E. Rossouw;Garnet L. Anderson;Ross L. Prentice;Andrea Z. LaCroix

  • Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

    Garnet L. Anderson;Marian C. Limacher;Annlouise R. Assaf;Tamsen Bassford

  • Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Incidence of Cardiovascular Events in Women

    Kristin A. Miller;David S. Siscovick;Lianne Sheppard;Kristen Shepherd

  • Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

    Rebecca D. Jackson;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Margery Gass;Robert B. Wallace

  • Design of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational study

    G. Anderson;S. Cummings;L. S. Freedman;C. Furberg

  • Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the women's health initiative randomized trials

    Jo Ann E. Manson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Marcia L. Stefanick;Aaron K. Aragaki

  • Low-fat dietary pattern and risk of cardiovascular disease : The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Barbara V. Howard;Barbara V. Howard;Linda Van Horn;Judith Hsia;JoAnn E. Manson

  • THE CASE FOR EARLY DETECTION

    Ruth Etzioni;Nicole Urban;Scott Ramsey;Martin McIntosh

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Low-Fat dietary pattern and risk of invasive breast cancer: The women's health initiative randomized controlled dietary modification trial

    Ross L. Prentice;Bette Caan;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Ruth Patterson

  • 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

  • The women's health initiative recruitment methods and results

    Jennifer Hays;Julie R Hunt;F.Allan Hubbell;Garnet L Anderson

  • Effects of Conjugated Equine Estrogens on Breast Cancer and Mammography Screening in Postmenopausal Women With Hysterectomy

    Marcia L. Stefanick;Garnet L. Anderson;Karen L. Margolis;Susan L. Hendrix

  • Implementation of the Women's Health Initiative study design.

    Garnet L. Anderson;Joann Manson;Robert Wallace;Bernedine Lund

  • Estrogen plus progestin and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Garnet L. Anderson;Margery Gass;Dorothy S. Lane

  • Ethnicity and Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Differences in Incidence and Outcome

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Zhao Chen;Garnet L. Anderson;Thomas Rohan

  • Insulin, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

    Marc J. Gunter;Donald R. Hoover;Herbert Yu;Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

  • Effects of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Gynecologic Cancers and Associated Diagnostic Procedures: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial

    Garnet L. Anderson;Howard L. Judd;Andrew M. Kaunitz;David H. Barad

  • Overweight, Obesity, and Postmenopausal Invasive Breast Cancer Risk: A Secondary Analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials

    Marian L. Neuhouser;Aaron K. Aragaki;Ross L. Prentice;Jo Ann E. Manson

  • Breast cancer after use of estrogen plus progestin in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Lewis H. Kuller;Ross L. Prentice;Marcia L. Stefanick

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Ross L. Prentice
Ross L. Prentice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Rowan T. Chlebowski
Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center
Marcia L. Stefanick
Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University
Jean Wactawski-Wende
Jean Wactawski-Wende University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Karen C. Johnson
Karen C. Johnson University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Bette J. Caan
Bette J. Caan Kaiser Permanente
Lewis H. Kuller
Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh
Nicole Urban
Nicole Urban Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Thomas E. Rohan
Thomas E. Rohan Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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