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Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Featured Publications

Merchan JR, Rodon J, Venkat S, Donahue A, Thomassen A, Accomando WP, Rodriguez-Aguirre M, Kwon D, Bentley C, Hogan DJ, Rodrigues OR, Yavrom S, Ostertag D, Shorr J, Falchook GS. A phase 1B trial of vocimagene amiretrorepvec in patients with advanced solid tumors: Safety, tumor homing, and immune modulatory effects. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy. 2025 Nov;33(11):5505-5515. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2025.08.027. PMID: 40842153; PMCID: PMC12628180.

Mahashabde RV, Bhatti SA, Martin BC, Painter JT, Patel M, Rodriguez A, Ying J, Li C. Survival Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Conjunction with Cranial Radiation for Older Adults with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Synchronous Brain Metastasis. Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.). 2025 Sep;32(9). doi: 10.3390/curroncol32090499. PMID: 41002569; PMCID: PMC12468429.

Delhey L, Joshua C, Allen JL, Delongchamp R, Amick BC, Nembhard W. Risk of Mortality From Esophageal Cancer Among US Poultry Workers, 1950-2019. American journal of industrial medicine. 2025 Aug;68(8):711-723. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23742. PMID: 40495311; PMCID: PMC12242096.

Soule EK, Jones DM, Heym M, Coffey AM, Guy MC, Cornell CE, Fagan P. Translating Health Equity Research Findings Into Meaningful Community- and Systems-Level Change, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2022-2023. American journal of public health. 2025 Jul;115(S2):S116-S119. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308145. PMID: 40561400; PMCID: PMC12199674.

Hsu CJ, Schraw JM, Desrosiers TA, Janitz AE, Kirby RS, Nestoridi E, Nembhard WN, Salemi JL, Shumate C, Tanner JP, Yazdy MM, Scheurer ME, Rabin KR, Lupo PJ. All genetic subtypes of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia exhibit increased incidence rates in children with Down syndrome. Leukemia. 2025 Jun;39(6):1516-1519. doi: 10.1038/s41375-025-02602-w. PMID: 40217070; PMCID: PMC12715847.

DelNero P, Schootman M, Peng C, Saini M, Hallgren E, Laryea J, Li C. Colorectal cancer survival disparities in persistent poverty areas. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association. 2025 Jun;41(3):e70045. doi: 10.1111/jrh.70045. PMID: 40629554; PMCID: PMC12466537.

Singh A, Bakhtyar M, Jun SR, Boerma M, Lan RS, Su LJ, Makhoul S, Hsu PC. A narrative review of metabolomics approaches in identifying biomarkers of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity. Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society. 2025 May;21(3):68. doi: 10.1007/s11306-025-02258-8. PMID: 40381141; PMCID: PMC12085340.

Allen JL, Rogers LQ, Martin MY, Amick BC 3rd. The mediating role of physical activity on cognitive disparities in cancer survivors. JNCI cancer spectrum. 2025 Apr;9(3). doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkaf023. PMID: 40036790; PMCID: PMC12042741.

Rathod R, Beauchamp A, Shahan K, Lin K, Henry K, Shariff-Marco S, Pruitt SL, Hughes A. Neighborhood Factors Related to Cancer Screening in Texas: A Spatioecological Study. American journal of preventive medicine. 2025 Apr;68(4):695-706. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.12.012. PMID: 39722303; PMCID: PMC11996198.

Thoenen E, Ranjan A, Parrales A, Nishikawa S, Dixon DA, Oka S, Iwakuma T. Suppression of stress granule formation is a vulnerability imposed by mutant p53. Nature communications. 2025 Mar;16(1):2365. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57539-6. PMID: 40064891; PMCID: PMC11894096.

Jung W, Park YM, Yu J, Yoo JE, Cho IY, Han K, Shin DW. Weight Changes and Heart Failure Risk After Breast Cancer Development. JAMA oncology. 2025 Mar;11(3):342-345. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.5803. PMID: 39786741; PMCID: PMC11926620.

Ellis ET, Young SG, Carroll R, Stahr SD, Runnells GA, Grasmuck EA, Su LJ, Park YM, Hsu PC. Carcinogenic air pollutants and breast cancer risk in the Arkansas rural community health study: A nested case-control study. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 2025 Mar;368:125709. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.125709. PMID: 39828205; PMCID: PMC12347715.

Soule EK, Mayne S, Snipes W, Guy MC, Breland A, Fagan P. Reactions to a Hypothetical Ban of Open-System Electronic Cigarettes Among People Who Currently Use Electronic Cigarettes. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2025 Jan;27(2):308-316. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntae020. PMID: 38408200; PMCID: PMC11750733.

Schootman M, Ying J, Li C, Amick B, Laryea J, Orcutt S. Impact of a minimally invasive approach for colon cancer surgery on outcomes in patients with functional limitations. Colorectal cancer. 2025 Jan;14(1). doi: 10.1080/1758194x.2025.2545749. PMID: 40855881; PMCID: PMC12376876.

Chen AY, Matich EK, Laryea J, Hsu PC, Su LJ. A Case-Control Study of Dietary Choline Intake and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Modified by Dietary B-Vitamin Intake. Nutrients. 2024 Dec;16(23). doi: 10.3390/nu16234200. PMID: 39683593; PMCID: PMC11644455.

Willis DE, Moore R, Selig JP, Shafeek Amin N, Li J, Watson D, Brimberry RK, McElfish PA. Pediatric HPV vaccination: Provider recommendations matter among hesitant parents. Vaccine. 2024 Nov;42(25):126166. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126166. PMID: 39079809; PMCID: PMC11401755.

Songiso M, Nuñez O, Cabanes A, Mutale M, Munalula J, Pupwe G, Henry-Tillman R, Parham GP. Three-year survival of breast cancer patients attending a one-stop breast care clinic nested within a primary care health facility in sub-Saharan Africa-Zambia. International journal of cancer. 2024 Jul;155(2):261-269. doi: 10.1002/ijc.34920. PMID: 38525795; PMCID: PMC11096003.

van der Plas E, Darji H, Srivastava DK, Schapiro M, Jeffe D, Perkins S, Howell R, Leisenring W, Armstrong GT, Oeffinger K, Krull K, Edelstein K, Hayashi RJ. Risk factors for neurocognitive impairment, emotional distress, and poor quality of life in survivors of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Cancer. 2024 Jun;130(12):2224-2236. doi: 10.1002/cncr.35236. PMID: 38373075; PMCID: PMC11139574.

Park YM, Jung W, Yeo Y, Park SH, Fradley MG, Malapati SJ, Tarun T, Raj V, Lee HS, Naqvi TZ, Henry-Tillman RS, Mehta JL, Schootman M, Amick BC 3rd, Han K, Shin DW. Mid- and long-term risk of atrial fibrillation among breast cancer surgery survivors. BMC medicine. 2024 Feb;22(1):88. doi: 10.1186/s12916-024-03308-z. PMID: 38419017; PMCID: PMC10903065.

Bradley CJ, Kitchen S, Owsley KM. Much work to do about measuring work. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2024 Feb;116(2):194-199. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djad258. PMID: 38070483; PMCID: PMC10852620.

Narcisse MR, Shah SK, Hallgren E, Felix HC, Schootman M, McElfish PA. Factors associated with breast cancer screening services use among women in the United States: An application of the Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use. Preventive medicine. 2023 Aug;173:107545. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107545. PMID: 37201597; PMCID: PMC10773561.

Bradley CJ, Kitchen S, Owsley KM. Working, Low Income, and Cancer Caregiving: Financial and Mental Health Impacts. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2023 Jun;41(16):2939-2948. doi: 10.1200/JCO.22.02537. PMID: 37043714; PMCID: PMC10414725.

Jackson A, Fleischli ME, Haeny A, Rose SW, Fagan P, Krishnan-Sarin S, Gerrard M, Gibbons FX. Association of Non-Cigarette Tobacco Advertisements and Racial Discrimination With Non-Cigarette Tobacco Product Use Among Black Adults. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2023 Mar;25(4):781-787. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntac226. PMID: 36169563; PMCID: PMC10032198.

Pujari SS, Jokipii Krueger CC, Chao C, Hutchins S, Hurben AK, Boysen G, Tretyakova N. DEB-FAPy-dG Adducts of 1,3-Butadiene: Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Formation in 1,2,3,4-Diepoxybutane Treated DNA. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2022 Jan;28(3):e202103245. doi: 10.1002/chem.202103245. PMID: 34767297; PMCID: PMC10603587.

Kresovich JK, Park YM, Keller JA, Sandler DP, Taylor JA. Healthy eating patterns and epigenetic measures of biological age. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 2022 Jan;115(1):171-179. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqab307. PMID: 34637497; PMCID: PMC8754996.

Choi YH, Park YM, Hur KJ, Ha US, Hong SH, Lee JY, Kim SW, Han K, Ko SH, Park YH. Duration of diabetes mellitus and risk of kidney and bladder cancer: a longitudinal nationwide cohort study. American journal of cancer research. 2022 Jan;12(8):4050-4061. PMID: 36119837; PMCID: PMC9441993.

Park YM, Sandler DP. Making sense of associations between type 2 diabetes, metformin, and breast cancer risk. British journal of cancer. 2021 Sep;125(7):909-910. doi: 10.1038/s41416-021-01372-3. PMID: 33911196; PMCID: PMC8476566.

Jones D, Guy MC, Soule E, Sakuma KK, Pokhrel P, Orloff M, Trinidad D, Smith D, Browley S, Walker AP, Bullock S, Eissenberg T, Fagan P. Characterization of Electronic Cigarette Warning Statements Portrayed in YouTube Videos. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2021 Aug;23(8):1358-1366. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa272. PMID: 33400781; PMCID: PMC8360626.

Park YM, Shivappa N, Petimar J, Hodgson ME, Nichols HB, Steck SE, Hébert JR, Sandler DP. Dietary inflammatory potential, oxidative balance score, and risk of breast cancer: Findings from the Sister Study. International journal of cancer. 2021 Aug;149(3):615-626. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33581. PMID: 33783833; PMCID: PMC8256885.

Matich EK, Laryea JA, Seely KA, Stahr S, Hsu PC, Su J. Association between pesticide exposure and colorectal cancer risk and incidence: A systematic review. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety. 2021 Aug;219:112327. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2021.112327. PMID: 34029839; PMCID: PMC8694176.

Adkins D, Ley J, Atiq O, Powell S, Spanos WC, Gitau M, Rigden C, Palka K, Oppelt P. Nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel with cetuximab and carboplatin as first-line therapy for recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer: A single-arm, multicenter, phase 2 trial. Oral oncology. 2021 Apr;115:105173. doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2020.105173. PMID: 33548860; PMCID: PMC8579485.

Park YM, Bookwalter DB, O’Brien KM, Jackson CL, Weinberg CR, Sandler DP. A prospective study of type 2 diabetes, metformin use, and risk of breast cancer. Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology. 2021 Mar;32(3):351-359. doi: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.12.008. PMID: 33516778; PMCID: PMC7995619.

Shibata T, Shah S, Evans T, Coleman H, Lieblong BJ, Spencer HJ, Quick CM, Sasagawa T, Stephens OW, Peterson E, Johann D Jr, Lu YC, Nakagawa M. Expansion of Human Papillomavirus-Specific T Cells in Periphery and Cervix in a Therapeutic Vaccine Recipient Whose Cervical High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion Regressed. Frontiers in immunology. 2021 Jan;12:645299. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.645299. PMID: 34659195; PMCID: PMC8515132.

Leung YK, Biesiada J, Govindarajah V, Ying J, Kendler A, Medvedovic M, Ho SM. Low-Dose Bisphenol A in a Rat Model of Endometrial Cancer: A CLARITY-BPA Study. Environmental health perspectives. 2020 Dec;128(12):127005. doi: 10.1289/EHP6875. PMID: 33296240; PMCID: PMC7725436.

Schraw JM, Desrosiers TA, Nembhard WN, Langlois PH, Meyer RE, Canfield MA, Rasmussen SA, Chambers TM, Spector LG, Plon SE, Lupo PJ. Cancer diagnostic profile in children with structural birth defects: An assessment in 15,000 childhood cancer cases. Cancer. 2020 Aug;126(15):3483-3492. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32982. PMID: 32469081; PMCID: PMC8485389.

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