Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Breast Cancer: 21st Century Advances, Gaps to Address through Interdisciplinary Science.
Terry MB, Colditz GA.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2023 Sep 01. 13(9). PMID: 36781224
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
Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship
Harvard University
Raine Visiting Professor
University of Western Australia
Rotan Lecture
MD Anderson Cancer Center
DeWitt Goodman Memorial Lectureship
AACR
Clinical Research Professor
American Cancer Society
Distinguished Achievement Award
American Society Preventive Oncology
Cassel Distinguished Lecture
UNC Chapel Hill
Member
Institute of Medicine
David B Kaner Memorial Lecture
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth College
Medal of Honor
American Cancer Society
Award for Excellence in cancer epidemiology and prevention
AACR-ACS
Terry MB, Colditz GA.
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. 2023 Sep 01. 13(9). PMID: 36781224
Chen S, Tamimi RM, Colditz GA, Jiang S.
Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2023 Sep 01. 16(9):531-537. PMID: 37428020
Wang X, Tian R, Zong X, Jeon MS, Luo J, Colditz GA, Wang JS, Tsilidis KK, Ju YS, Govindan R, Puri V, Cao Y.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2023 Aug 01. 32(8):1079-1086. PMID: 37195052
Ji M, Huber JH, Schoen MW, Sanfilippo KM, Colditz GA, Wang SY, Chang SH.
JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jul 27. PMID: 37498610
Strand SH, Rivero-Gutiérrez B, Houlahan KE, Seoane JA, King LM, Risom T, Simpson LA, Vennam S, Khan A, Cisneros L, Hardman T, Harmon B, Couch F, Gallagher K, Kilgore M, We S, DeMichele A, King T, McAuliffe PF, Nangia J, Lee J, Tseng J, Storniolo AM, Thompson AM, Gupta GP, Burns R, Veis DJ, DeSchryver K, Zhu C, Matusiak M, Wang J, Zhu SX, Tappenden J, Ding DY, Zhang D, Luo J, Jiang S, Varma S, Anderson L, Straub C, Srivastava S, Curtis C, Tibshirani R, Angelo RM, Hall A, Owzar K, Polyak K, Maley C, Marks JR, Colditz GA, Hwang ES, West RB.
Cancer Cell. 2023 Jul 10. 41(7):1381. PMID: 37433282
Lan T, Wang M, Ehrhardt MJ, Jiang S, Lanctot JQ, Armstrong GT, Hudson MM, Colditz GA, Robison LL, Park Y.
BMC Med. 2023 07 03. 21(1):242. PMID: 37400811
Anandarajah A, Chen Y, Stoll C, Hardi A, Jiang S, Colditz GA.
Cancer Causes Control. 2023 Jun 20. PMID: 37340148
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Stat Methods Med Res. 2023 Jul. 32(7):1420-1441. PMID: 37284817
Jiang S, Bennett DL, Rosner BA, Colditz GA.
JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jun 01. 9(6):808-814. PMID: 37103922
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Breast Cancer Res. 2023 04 24. 25(1):45. PMID: 37095519