How does weight gain since the age of 18 years affect breast cancer risk in later life? A meta-analysis.
Han Y, Otegbeye EE, Stoll C, Hardi A, Colditz GA, Toriola AT.
Breast Cancer Res. 2024 Mar 07. 26(1):39. PMID: 38454466
Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and from 1999 to 2006 was Principal Investigator of the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study located at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This cohort, founded by Frank Speizer, M.D., follows 121,700 U.S. women with questionnaire assessment of lifestyle factors and the use of biomarkers to assess risk of chronic diseases among women (http://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/). He also led studies based on tissue samples from participants with prior biopsies for benign breast disease to evaluate changes that predict future risk of breast cancer.
He served as Principal Investigator of an ongoing cohort study of 16,000 adolescents relating lifestyle to weight gain in youth from its inception in 1996 to 2006. The focus of this study has been diet, physical activity, smoking, and weight gain among adolescents. His public health practice activities have included collaborations through the WIC program to improve diet assessment and nutrition education in the service delivery setting, and work with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the American Cancer Society to prevent cancer.
Within the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, Dr. Colditz served as the Director to 2006, and took a leadership role in the development of the Center’s website, http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/, which provides information to the public on the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer incidence and the potential for prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and osteoporosis.
In 2003, Dr. Colditz was the recipient of the ACS Clinical Research Professorship award. He was also awarded the DeWitt S. Goodman Lectureship by AACR on 2003. Since 2004, he has been funded by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to further evaluate risk factors for breast cancer and the potential for prevention. He is a Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the Royal Australian College of Physicians and was elceted to membership in teh Insitute of Medicine in 2006.
He currently serves as the Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis”
MBBS, 1979
University of Queensland, Australia
1986
Harvard University
M.D., 1998
University of Queensland, Australia
Award for Excellence in cancer epidemiology and prevention
AACR-ACS
Medal of Honor
American Cancer Society
David B Kaner Memorial Lecture
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth College
Member
Institute of Medicine
Cassel Distinguished Lecture
UNC Chapel Hill
Distinguished Achievement Award
American Society Preventive Oncology
DeWitt Goodman Memorial Lectureship
AACR
Clinical Research Professor
American Cancer Society
Rotan Lecture
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Raine Visiting Professor
University of Western Australia
Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship
Harvard University
Han Y, Otegbeye EE, Stoll C, Hardi A, Colditz GA, Toriola AT.
Breast Cancer Res. 2024 Mar 07. 26(1):39. PMID: 38454466
Jiang S, Colditz GA.
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Lan T, Wang M, Ehrhardt MJ, Lanctot JQ, Jiang S, Armstrong GT, Ness KK, Hudson MM, Colditz GA, Robison LL, Park Y.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Mar. 119(3):639-648. PMID: 38278365
Wang M, Lan T, Williams AM, Ehrhardt MJ, Lanctot JQ, Jiang S, Krull KR, Armstrong GT, Hudson MM, Colditz GA, Robison LL, Ness KK, Park Y.
J Clin Oncol. 2024 Jan 23. JCO2301260. PMID: 38261979
Chang ET, Clarke CA, Colditz GA, Kurian AW, Hubbell E.
Cancer Causes Control. 2024 Jan 18. PMID: 38238615
Wang R, Neparidze N, Ma X, Colditz GA, Chang SH, Wang SY.
Cancer Med. 2024 Feb. 13(3):e6915. PMID: 38234237
Jiang S, Colditz GA.
JAMA Oncol. 2023 Dec 01. 9(12):1734. PMID: 37796487
Sereda Y, Alarid-Escudero F, Bickell NA, Chang SH, Colditz GA, Hur C, Jalal H, Myers ER, Layne TM, Wang SY, Yeh JM, Trikalinos TA.
J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr. 2023 11 08. 2023(62):219-230. PMID: 37947329
Iglesia MD, Jayasinghe RG, Chen S, Terekhanova NV, Herndon JM, Storrs E, Karpova A, Zhou DC, Al Deen NN, Shinkle AT, Lu RJ, Caravan W, Houston A, Zhao Y, Sato K, Lal P, Street C, Rodrigues FM, Southard-Smith AN, Targino da Costa ALN, Zhu H, Mo CK, Crowson L, Fulton RS, Wyczalkowski MA, Fronick CC, Fulton LA, Sun H, Davies SR, Appelbaum EL, Chasnoff SE, Carmody M, Brooks C, Liu R, Wendl MC, Oh C, Bender D, Cruchaga C, Harari O, Bredemeyer A, Lavine K, Bose R, Margenthaler J, Held JM, Achilefu S, Ademuyiwa F, Aft R, Ma C, Colditz GA, Ju T, Oh ST, Fitzpatrick J, Hwang ES, Shoghi KI, Chheda MG, Veis DJ, Chen F, Fields RC, Gillanders WE, Ding L.
bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 02. PMID: 37961519
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