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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
121
Citations
72978
World Ranking
520
National Ranking
307

Medicine

D-Index
125
Citations
80089
World Ranking
3023
National Ranking
1667

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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Susan M. Gapstur is affiliated with the American Cancer Society in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these areas, the scientist has extensively contributed to Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Molecular Biology.

Their research centers on topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Cancer Risks and Factors, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Graham G. Giles
  • Christopher A. Haiman (13 publications)
  • Stig E. Bojesen (13 publications)
  • Hoda Anton-Culver (12 publications)
  • Mia M. Gaudet (12 publications)

They have published multiple papers in notable journals, with some recent works including:

  • "A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Combined Associations of a Polygenic Risk Score and Classical Risk Factors With Breast Cancer Risk," 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "The IARC Perspective on Alcohol Reduction or Cessation and Cancer Risk," 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as the New England Journal of Medicine, UNC Libraries, Nature Genetics, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and Annals of Oncology.

Best Publications

  • Diabetes and Cancer: A consensus report

    Edward L. Giovannucci;David M. Harlan;Michael C. Archer;Richard M. Bergenstal

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

    Richard Burnett;Hong Chen;Mieczysław Szyszkowicz;Neal Fann

  • Surrogate end-point biomarkers as measures of colon cancer risk and their use in cancer chemoprevention trials.

    Janine G. Einspahr;David S. Alberts;Susan M. Gapstur;Roberd M. Bostick

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Richard T. Burnett;C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Casey Olives

  • American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention

    Lawrence H. Kushi;Colleen Doyle;Marji McCullough;Cheryl L. Rock

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

  • Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States

    Farhad Islami;Ann Goding Sauer;Kimberly D. Miller;Rebecca L. Siegel

  • 50-Year Trends in Smoking-Related Mortality in the United States

    Michael J. Thun;Brian D. Carter;Diane Feskanich;Neal D. Freedman

  • 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

  • Colon Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiology

    John D. Potter;Martha L. Slattery;Roberd M. Bostick;Susan M. Gapstur

  • Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality in a Large Prospective Study

    Michelle C. Turner;Michael Jerrett;C. Arden Pope;Daniel Krewski

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

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

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults

    Alpa V. Patel;Leslie Bernstein;Anusila Deka;Heather Spencer Feigelson

  • Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationships

    C. Arden Pope;Richard T. Burnett;Michelle C. Turner;Aaron Cohen

  • Human oral microbiome and prospective risk for pancreatic cancer: a population-based nested case-control study

    Xiaozhou Fan;Alexander V Alekseyenko;Jing Wu;Brandilyn A Peters

  • Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis

    Steven C. Moore;Alpa V. Patel;Charles E. Matthews;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

  • Alcohol and Breast Cancer: Review of Epidemiologic and Experimental Evidence and Potential Mechanisms

    Keith W. Singletary;Susan M. Gapstur

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Alpa V. Patel
Alpa V. Patel American Cancer Society
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Eric J. Jacobs
Eric J. Jacobs American Cancer Society
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Alicja Wolk
Alicja Wolk Karolinska Institute
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
Christopher A. Haiman
Christopher A. Haiman University of Southern California
Mark P. Purdue
Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health

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