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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Health Sciences T-739
3:30 to 4:50pm

Randomized Trial of Breast Self-Examination in Shanghai

David B. Thomas, MD, DrPH   Professor of Epidemiology Dr. Thomas is a member in the Program of Epidemiology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Dr. Thomas received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Washington in 1963 and his Doctor of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1972.  He was head of the Program in Epidemiology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle from 1983-2000, and head of the Breast Cancer Program at that institution from 1994-98.  He has conducted epidemiologic studies of cancer etiology and prevention during much of his professional career.  From 1978 to 1992, he coordinated for the World Health Organization a multinational study of the role of steroid contraceptives as possible causes of breast, gynecologic and liver cancers.  In the United States, he conducted a study of the value of calcifications and densities in mammograms from women under the age of 50 years for predicting risk of subsequent breast cancer.  With Chinese colleagues, he conducted a randomized trial of breast self examination in Shanghai; and he utilized the resources developed for that trial to also study the possible roles of dietary, genetic and hormonal factors in the etiology of breast cancer and benign breast conditions in Chinese women, and to investigate possible risks of multiple cancers   in relation to occupational exposures in the textile, and in relation to use of steroid contraceptives and other factors.  He was a member of the working groups that produced the IARC Handbook on Breast Cancer Screening in 2002, and the IARC monograph on combined estrogen-progestogen contraceptives and menopausal therapy in 2007.    

Suggested Reading Material: Randomized Trail of Breast Self-/Examination in Shanghai: Final Results

 

Light refreshments will be served.

For more information - please contact Ann Vander Stoep, PhD

 

Updated on September 3, 2009