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Overview

Robert W. Haile is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their primary research areas center around medicine, with a specific focus on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They have contributed extensively to oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, genetics, cancer research, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work engages closely with several key topics related to colorectal cancer, including genetic factors in colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening and detection, and colorectal cancer treatments and studies. Additional topics of interest include cancer genomics and diagnostics, global cancer incidence and screening, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Their publication record includes several recent papers covering diverse aspects of cancer genetics and surveillance:

  • Deciphering colorectal cancer genetics through multi-omic analysis of 100,204 cases and 154,587 controls of European and east Asian ancestries, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Mortality by age, gene and gender in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair gene variants receiving surveillance for early cancer diagnosis and treatment: a report from the prospective Lynch syndrome database, 2023, EClinicalMedicine
  • Expanded Parameters in Active Surveillance for Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Genetic architectures of proximal and distal colorectal cancer are partly distinct, 2021, Gut
  • Circulating bilirubin levels and risk of colorectal cancer: serological and Mendelian randomization analyses, 2020, BMC Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert W. Haile include:

  • Polly A. Newcomb
  • Mark A. Jenkins
  • John L. Hopper
  • Loïc Le Marchand
  • Noralane M. Lindor

Common venues for their published work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

  • CpG island methylator phenotype underlies sporadic microsatellite instability and is tightly associated with BRAF mutation in colorectal cancer.

    Daniel J Weisenberger;Kimberly D Siegmund;Mihaela Campan;Joanne Young

  • A randomized trial of aspirin to prevent colorectal adenomas

    John A. Baron;Bernard F. Cole;Robert S. Sandler;Robert W. Haile

  • Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives : collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53.297 women with breast cancer and 100.239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies

    E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;H. L. Miracle-McMahill;R. J. Coates

  • Folic acid for the prevention of colorectal adenomas: a randomized clinical trial.

    Bernard F. Cole;John A. Baron;Robert S. Sandler;Robert W. Haile

  • Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

    N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

  • Calcium Supplements for the Prevention of Colorectal Adenomas

    Baron Ja;Beach M;Beach M;Mandel Js;van Stolk Ru

  • Mammographic Features and Breast Cancer Risk: Effects With Time, Age, and Menopause Status

    Celia Byrne;Catherine Schairer;John Wolfe;Navin Parekh

  • 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

  • A Clinical Trial of Antioxidant Vitamins to Prevent Colorectal Adenoma

    E. Robert Greenberg;John A. Baron;Tor D. Tosteson;Daniel H. Freeman

  • Association of Prostate Cancer Risk With Genetic Polymorphisms in Vitamin D Receptor and Androgen Receptor

    S A Ingles;R K Ross;M C Yu;R A Irvine

  • Lower Cancer Incidence in Amsterdam-I Criteria Families Without Mismatch Repair Deficiency: Familial Colorectal Cancer Type X

    Noralane M. Lindor;Kari Rabe;Gloria M. Petersen;Robert Haile

  • Identification of Lynch syndrome among patients with colorectal cancer

    Leticia Moreira;Francesc Balaguer;Noralane Lindor;Albert De La Chapelle

  • A Collaborative Survey of 80 Mutations in the BRCA1 Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Gene: Implications for Presymptomatic Testing and Screening

    Donna Shattuck Eidens;Melody Mcclure;Jacques Simard;Fernand Labrie

  • Type and timing of menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis of the worldwide epidemiological evidence

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

  • Colorectal Cancer in Patients Under Close Colonoscopic Surveillance

    Douglas J. Robertson;Douglas J. Robertson;E. Robert Greenberg;Michael Beach;Robert S. Sandler

  • Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Mev Dominguez-Valentin;Julian R. Sampson;Toni T. Seppälä;Sanne W. ten Broeke

  • Vitamin D, calcium supplementation, and colorectal adenomas: Results of a randomized trial

    Maria V. Grau;John A. Baron;Robert S. Sandler;Robert W. Haile

  • Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database

    Bryony A Thompson;Bryony A Thompson;Amanda B Spurdle;John-Paul Plazzer;Marc S Greenblatt

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Polly A. Newcomb
Polly A. Newcomb Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Mark A. Jenkins
Mark A. Jenkins University of Melbourne
John A. Baron
John A. Baron University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa
Graham Casey
Graham Casey University of Virginia
Daniel D. Buchanan
Daniel D. Buchanan University of Melbourne

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