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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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Overview

Susan E. Hankinson is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's studies explore a range of topics including Cancer Risks and Factors, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors, as well as Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Prolactin levels and breast cancer risk by tumor expression of prolactin-related markers (2023, Breast Cancer Research)
  • A Multi-State Survival Model for Time to Breast Cancer Mortality among a Cohort of Initially Disease-Free Women (2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)
  • Is Alcohol Consumption Associated With Risk of Early Menopause? (2021, American Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Association of body mass index and inflammatory dietary pattern with breast cancer pathologic and genomic immunophenotype in the nurses' health study (2022, Breast Cancer Research)
  • Loss of PTEN Expression, PIK3CA Mutations, and Breast Cancer Survival in the Nurses' Health Studies (2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

Frequent co-authors with whom Susan E. Hankinson has collaborated include:

  • A. Heather Eliassen
  • Rulla M. Tamimi
  • Yujing J. Heng
  • Gabrielle M. Baker
  • Tianyi Huang

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Research
  • Breast Cancer Research
  • American Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Body weight and mortality among women

    JoAnn E. Manson;Walter C. Willett;Meir J. Stampfer;Graham A. Colditz

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • The use of estrogens and progestins and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

    Graham A. Colditz;Susan E. Hankinson;David J. Hunter;Walter C. Willett

  • Circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor I and risk of breast cancer

    Susan E Hankinson;Walter C Willett;Walter C Willett;Graham A Colditz;Graham A Colditz;David J Hunter;David J Hunter

  • Insulin-like growth factors and neoplasia.

    Michael N. Pollak;Eva S. Schernhammer;Susan E. Hankinson

  • A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer

    David J Hunter;David J Hunter;Peter Kraft;Kevin B Jacobs;David G Cox

  • Postmenopausal hormone therapy and mortality.

    Francine Grodstein;Meir J. Stampfer;Graham A. Colditz;Walter C. Willett

  • Inflammatory markers and the risk of coronary heart disease in men and women.

    Jennifer K Pai;Tobias Pischon;Jing Ma;JoAnn E Manson

  • Body mass index, serum sex hormones, and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women.

    T J Key;P N Appleby;G K Reeves;A Roddam

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Dual Effects of Weight and Weight Gain on Breast Cancer Risk

    Zhiping Huang;Susan E. Hankinson;Graham A. Colditz;Meir J. Stampfer

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • 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

  • Birth weight and risk of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of women followed up since 1976.

    Janet W. Rich-Edwards;Meir J. Stampfer;Jo Ann E. Manson;Bernard Rosner

  • Alcohol consumption and mortality among women

    C. S. Fuchs;M. J. Stampfer;G. A. Colditz;E. L. Giovannucci

  • The Nurses' Health Study: 20-Year Contribution to the Understanding of Health Among Women

    Graham A. Colditz;Joann E. Manson;Susan E. Hankinson

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • The use of Estrogens and Progestins and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

    Graham A. Colditz;Susan E. Hankinson;David J. Hunter;Walter C. Willet

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Bernard Rosner
Bernard Rosner Harvard University
Graham A. Colditz
Graham A. Colditz Washington University in St. Louis
Shelley S. Tworoger
Shelley S. Tworoger Harvard University
A. Heather Eliassen
A. Heather Eliassen Harvard University
Rulla M. Tamimi
Rulla M. Tamimi Cornell University
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Immaculata De Vivo
Immaculata De Vivo Harvard University

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