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Shelia Hoar Zahm is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on cancer research.

The scientist has contributed to work across several subfields including cancer research, economics and econometrics, environmental chemistry, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and atmospheric science.

Main research topics covered in their publications include carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, health systems and economic evaluations related to quality of life, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, chemical safety and risk management, and pesticide exposure and toxicity.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Shelia Hoar Zahm include:

  • Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, 2023, The Lancet Oncology
  • Risk of Bias Assessments and Evidence Syntheses for Observational Epidemiologic Studies of Environmental and Occupational Exposures: Strengths and Limitations, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Pesticide use and risk of Hodgkin lymphoma: results from the North American Pooled Project (NAPP), 2020, Cancer Causes & Control
  • Insecticide use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: A subset meta-analysis of the North American Pooled Project, 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • Letter: Robins-E risk of bias tool, 2025, Environment International

The primary publication venues for their work include The Lancet Oncology, Environmental Health Perspectives, Cancer Causes & Control, International Journal of Cancer, and Environment International.

Shelia Hoar Zahm frequently collaborates with several researchers including Kyle Steenland, Mary K. Schubauer-Berigan, Roel Vermeulen, Whitney D. Arroyave, and Neil Pearce.

Best Publications

  • The Agricultural Health Study.

    Michael C. R. Alavanja;Dale P. Sandler;Suzanne B. McMaster;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • Pesticides and cancer

    Jan Dich;Shelia Hoar Zahm;Annika Hanberg;Hans Olov Adami

  • Be the fairest of them all: Challenges and recommendations for the treatment of gender in occupational health research

    Karen Messing;Laura Punnett;Meg Bond;Kristina Alexanderson

  • A case-control study of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in eastern Nebraska.

    Shelia Hoar Zahm;Dennis D. Weisenburger;Paula A. Babbitt;Robert C. Saal

  • Mortality and cancer incidence in a pooled cohort of US firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950–2009)

    Robert D Daniels;Travis L Kubale;James H Yiin;Matthew M Dahm

  • Drinking Water Nitrate and the Risk of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

    Mary H. Ward;Steven D. Mark;Kenneth P. Cantor;Dennis D. Weisenburger

  • Agricultural exposures and cancer.

    Aaron Blair;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • A Quantitative Approach for Estimating Exposure to Pesticides in the Agricultural Health Study

    Mustafa Dosemeci;Michael C. R. Alavanja;Andrew S. Rowland;David Mage

  • A nested case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and serum organochlorine residues

    Nathaniel Rothman;Kenneth P Cantor;Aaron Blair;David Bush

  • Risk of adenocarcinoma of the stomach and esophagus with meat cooking method and doneness preference

    Mary H. Ward;Rashmi Sinha;Ellen F. Heineman;Nathaniel Rothman

  • Cytokine polymorphisms in the Th1/Th2 pathway and susceptibility to non-Hodgkin lymphoma

    Qing Lan;Tongzhang Zheng;Nathaniel Rothman;Yawei Zhang

  • Increased risk of colorectal cancer among smokers: results of a 26-year follow-up of US veterans and a review.

    Ellen F. Heineman;Shelia Hoar Zahm;Joseph K. McLaughlin;Jimmie B. Vaught

  • Etiologic heterogeneity among non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes

    Lindsay M. Morton;Sophia S. Wang;Wendy Cozen;Martha S. Linet

  • Physical activity and breast cancer: evaluation of physical activity assessment methods.

    Barbara E. Ainsworth;Barbara Sternfeld;Martha L. Slattery;Virginie Daguisé

  • Dietary factors and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Nebraska (United States)

    Mary H. Ward;Shelia Hoar Zahm;Dennis D. Weisenburger;Gloria Gridley

  • Genome-wide association study of follicular lymphoma identifies a risk locus at 6p21.32

    Lucia Conde;Eran Halperin;Nicholas K. Akers;Kevin M. Brown

  • Prior medical conditions and medication use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Connecticut United States women.

    Yawei Zhang;Theodore R. Holford;Brian Leaderer;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • Patterns of Pesticide Use among Farmers: Implications for Epidemiologic Research

    Aaron Blair;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • Epidemiology of lymphomas.

    Dalsu Baris;Shelia Hoar Zahm

  • Agricultural use of organophosphate pesticides and the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among male farmers (United States).

    Barry L. Waddell;Shelia Hoar Zahm;Dalsu Baris;Dennis D. Weisenburger

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Blair
Aaron Blair National Institutes of Health
Tongzhang Zheng
Tongzhang Zheng Brown University
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Theodore R. Holford
Theodore R. Holford Yale University
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle University of Edinburgh
Kenneth P. Cantor
Kenneth P. Cantor National Institutes of Health
Katherine A. McGlynn
Katherine A. McGlynn National Institutes of Health
Qing Lan
Qing Lan National Institutes of Health
Dennis D. Weisenburger
Dennis D. Weisenburger University of Nebraska Medical Center
Patricia Hartge
Patricia Hartge National Institutes of Health

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