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Thomas E. Rohan is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on oncology and cancer research.

Rohan has published extensively in the fields of oncology, genetics, cancer research, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their principal research topics include:

  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism

The scientist has contributed frequently to key publication venues such as:

  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Cancer Research
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • JNCI Cancer Spectrum

Among the recent papers featuring Rohan's research are:

  • Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials (2020, JAMA)
  • Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial (2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • Insulin resistance and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative (2020, Cancer)
  • Body size and weight change over adulthood and risk of breast cancer by menopausal and hormone receptor status: a pooled analysis of 20 prospective cohort studies (2020, European Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Diabetes, Glycated Hemoglobin, and Risk of Cancer in the UK Biobank Study (2020, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

Rohan's frequent coauthors include:

  • JoAnn E. Manson
  • Rowan T. Chlebowski
  • Rita Peila
  • Kathy Pan
  • Aladdin H. Shadyab

The scientist's work reflects an interdisciplinary approach combining cancer epidemiology, metabolic studies, and hormone-related factors in cancer development and mortality. Their collaboration network and publishing history indicate active involvement in large cohort studies and clinical trials related to cancer incidence and outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Role of the insulin-like growth factor family in cancer development and progression

    Herbert Yu;Thomas Rohan

  • Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

    Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

  • Pooled Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies on Height, Weight, and Breast Cancer Risk

    Piet A. Van Den Brandt;Donna Spiegelman;Shiaw Shyuan Yaun;Hans Olov Adami

  • Dietary Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: Combined Analysis of 12 Case—Control Studies

    G. R. Howe;T. Hirohata;T. G. Hislop;J. M. Iscovich

  • Epidemiology of Acquisition and Clearance of Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection in Women from a High-Risk Area for Cervical Cancer

    Eduardo L. Franco;Luisa L. Villa;Joao P. Sobrinho;José M. Prado

  • 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

  • Persistent human papillomavirus infection as a predictor of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

    Nicolas F. Schlecht;Sophie Kulaga;Juliette Robitaille;Silvaneide Ferreira

  • Alcohol intake and colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of 8 cohort studies.

    Eunyoung Cho;Stephanie A. Smith-Warner;John Ritz;Piet A. Van Den Brandt

  • Estrogen plus progestin and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Garnet L. Anderson;Margery Gass;Dorothy S. Lane

  • Ethnicity and Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Differences in Incidence and Outcome

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Zhao Chen;Garnet L. Anderson;Thomas Rohan

  • Insulin, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I, and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

    Marc J. Gunter;Donald R. Hoover;Herbert Yu;Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

  • Dairy foods, calcium, and colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of 10 cohort studies.

    Eunyoung Cho;Stephanie A. Smith-Warner;Stephanie A. Smith-Warner;Donna Spiegelman;W. Lawrence Beeson

  • Dietary fiber intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies.

    Yikyung Park;Yikyung Park;David J. Hunter;Donna Spiegelman;Leif Bergkvist

  • Breast cancer after use of estrogen plus progestin in postmenopausal women

    Rowan T. Chlebowski;Lewis H. Kuller;Ross L. Prentice;Marcia L. Stefanick

  • Intake of Fruits and Vegetables and Risk of Breast Cancer A Pooled Analysis of Cohort Studies

    Stephanie A. Smith-Warner;Donna Spiegelman;Shiaw Shyuan Yaun;Hans Olov Adami

  • 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

  • Calcium Plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Breast Cancer

    Rowan T Chlebowski;Karen C Johnson;Charles Kooperberg;Mary Pettinger

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

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

  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapy induces breast cancer metastasis through a TMEM-mediated mechanism

    George S. Karagiannis;Jessica M. Pastoriza;Yarong Wang;Allison S. Harney

  • Alcohol Intake and Colorectal Cancer

    Eunyoung Cho;Stephanie A. Smith-Warner;John Ritz;Piet A. Van Den Brandt

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Rowan T. Chlebowski
Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center
Alicja Wolk
Alicja Wolk Karolinska Institute
Jean Wactawski-Wende
Jean Wactawski-Wende University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Anthony B. Miller
Anthony B. Miller University of Toronto
Julie E. Buring
Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller
Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jo L. Freudenheim
Jo L. Freudenheim University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University

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