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Laure Dossus is a researcher affiliated with the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France. Their academic work spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad domains, Dossus has concentrated on oncology, genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, cancer research, and molecular biology as specific subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their research include cancer risks and factors, nutritional studies and diet, cancer related to lipids and metabolism, diet and metabolism studies, estrogen and related hormone effects, genetic associations and epidemiology, and metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies.

Frequent publication venues for Dossus include the International Journal of Cancer, BMC Medicine, bioRxiv, UNC Libraries, and the British Journal of Cancer. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work, bridging clinical, molecular, and epidemiological perspectives.

Their recent significant research contributions include:

  • "Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis" (2022, BMC Medicine)
  • "Breast cancer risk after recent childbirth: A pooled analysis of 15 prospective studies" (2024, PubMed)
  • "Nutritional Factors during and after Cancer: Impacts on Survival and Quality of Life" (2022, Nutrients)
  • "Identifying molecular mediators of the relationship between body mass index and endometrial cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis" (2022, BMC Medicine)
  • "The Risk of Ovarian Cancer Increases with an Increase in the Lifetime Number of Ovulatory Cycles: An Analysis from the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3)" (2020, Cancer Research)

Dossus has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Marc J. Gunter, Rudolf Kaaks, Anne Tjønneland, Elisabete Weiderpass, and Matthias B. Schulze, reflecting a multidisciplinary and networked approach to cancer research.

Best Publications

  • Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers?

    Isabelle Romieu;Laure Dossus;Simón Barquera;Hervé M. Blottière

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Postmenopausal serum androgens, oestrogens and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition

    R. Kaaks;S. Rinaldi;T.J. Key;F. Berrino

  • Serum Sex Steroids in Premenopausal Women and Breast Cancer Risk Within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Rudolf Kaaks;Franco Berrino;Timothy Key;Sabina Rinaldi

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

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

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • Body mass index, circulating levels of sex-steroid hormones, IGF-I and IGF-binding protein-3: a cross-sectional study in healthy women.

    A. Lukanova;A. Lukanova;E. Lundin;A. Zeleniuch-Jacquotte;P. Muti

  • Sex hormones and risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women: a collaborative reanalysis of individual participant data from seven prospective studies.

    Endogenous Hormones;T J Key;P N Appleby

  • Reproductive risk factors and endometrial cancer: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

    Laure Dossus;Naomi Allen;Rudolf Kaaks;Kjersti Bakken

  • Endogenous sex hormones and endometrial cancer risk in women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Naomi E. Allen;Timothy J. Key;Laure Dossus;Sabina Rinaldi

  • Combined impact of healthy lifestyle factors on colorectal cancer: a large European cohort study

    Krasimira Aleksandrova;Tobias Pischon;Mazda Jenab;H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita;H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

  • Association of Body Mass Index and Age With Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk in Premenopausal Women.

    Minouk J. Schoemaker;Hazel B. Nichols;Lauren B. Wright;Mark N. Brook

  • Plasma adiponectin levels and endometrial cancer risk in pre- and postmenopausal women.

    Anne E. Cust;Anne E. Cust;Anne E. Cust;Rudolf Kaaks;Christine Friedenreich;Fabrice Bonnet;Fabrice Bonnet

  • Oral contraceptive use and reproductive factors and risk of ovarian cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

    K K Tsilidis;N E Allen;T J Key;L Dossus

  • Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study

    Marc J Gunter;Neil Murphy;Amanda J Cross;Laure Dossus

  • Obesity related hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia and cancer development.

    Susen Becker;Laure Dossus;Rudolf Kaaks

  • Inflammatory and metabolic biomarkers and risk of liver and biliary tract cancer

    Krasimira Aleksandrova;Heiner Boeing;Ute Nöthlings;Mazda Jenab

  • IGF-I, IGFBP-3 and breast cancer risk in women: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).

    S. Rinaldi;P. H.M. Peeters;F. Berrino;L. Dossus

  • Diet, serum insulin-like growth factor-I and IGF-binding protein-3 in European women

    T. Norat;L. Dossus;S. Rinaldi;S. Rinaldi;K. Overvad

  • Serum Sex Steroids in Premenopausal Women and Breast Cancer Risk Within the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    R. Kaaks;F. Berrino;T. Key;S. Rinaldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut Gustave Roussy
Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Harvard University

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