Publications Using Our Data
Every year, a large number of researchers use data from the Utah Cancer Registry to engage in research. These research projects have led to a large number of publications. Here is a selection of publications from researchers using our data.
2021 Publications
Bowles TL, Sweeney C, Snyder J, Gygi J, Bott B, Wray D, Yeatman TJ, Sause WT. Impact of rurality on melanoma diagnosis in Utah. Melanoma Management. 2021;8(2). doi: 10.2217/mmt-2020-0023.
Cannon-Albright LA, Farnham JM, Stevens J, Teerlink CC, Palmer CA, Rowe K, Cessna MH, Blumenthal DT. Genome-wide analysis of high-risk primary brain cancer pedigrees identifies PDXDC1 as a candidate brain cancer predisposition gene. Neuro-Oncology. 2021;23(2):277-83. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa161.
De Angeli K, Gao S, Alawad M, Yoon HJ, Schaefferkoetter N, Wu XC, Durbin EB, Doherty J, Stroup A, Coyle L, Penberthy L, Tourassi G. Deep active learning for classifying cancer pathology reports. BMC Bioinformatics. 2021;22(1):113. Epub 20210309. doi: 10.1186/s12859-021-04047-1. PubMed PMID: 33750288; PMCID: PMC7941989.
Gao S, Alawad M, Young MT, Gounley J, Schaefferkoetter N, Yoon HJ, Wu XC, Durbin EB, Doherty J, Stroup A, Coyle L, Tourassi G. Limitations of Transformers on Clinical Text Classification. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2021;25(9):3596-607. Epub 20210903. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3062322. PubMed PMID: 33635801; PMCID: PMC8387496.
Grossman D, Sweeney C, Doherty JA. The rapid rise in cutaneous melanoma diagnoses. The New England journal of medicine. 2021;384(14):e54. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2101980. PubMed PMID: 33826834.
Hu Q, Chang CP, Rowe K, Snyder J, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Fraser A, Smith K, Gren LH, Porucznik C, Stanford JB, Gaffney D, Henry NL, Lopez I, Hashibe M. Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors in a Population-Based Cohort. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2021;5(2):pkab016. Epub 20210215. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkab016. PubMed PMID: 33889806; PMCID: PMC8052955.
Jacobs AC, Malhotra NR, Purnell SM, Lee YJ, Wolf L, Millar MM, Cartwright PC, Smith BK. Quality improvement education in surgical specialty training: A comparison of Vascular Surgery resident and Urology Resident experiences and attitudes. American journal of surgery. 2021;221(5):993-9. Epub 2020/10/10. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2020.09.036. PubMed PMID: 33032790.
Millar M, Yoder V, Jozwik D, Espinoza J, Lemons D, Jewell C, Sweeney C. Improving cancer registry surveillance through interstate data exchange of electronic pathology reports. Journal of Registry Management. 2021;48(2):59-63.
Yuan Y, Van Dyke AL, Petkov VI, Hussey S, Moravec R, Altekruse SF, Sandoval M, Cress RD, Mueller LM, Mogi A, Hernandez BY, Selk FR, Lynch CF, Tucker TC, Lynch MA, Lefante C, Wu XC, Sweeney C, Doherty JA, Penberthy LS. Pathology Laboratory Policies and Procedures for Releasing Diagnostic Tissue for Cancer Research. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine. 2021;145(2):222-6. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2019-0474-OA. PubMed PMID: 33501497; PMCID: PMC8135254.
2020 Publications
Anderson C, Kaddas HK, Ou JY, Ramsay JM, Trogdon JG, Kirchhoff AC, Nichols HB. Hospitalization after Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer: A population-based study in Utah. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2020;29(2):336-42. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-1229.
Aylward A, Park J, Abdelaziz S, Hunt JP, Buchmann LO, Cannon RB, Rowe K, Snyder J, Deshmukh V, Newman M, Wan Y, Fraser A, Smith K, Lloyd S, Hitchcock Y, Hashibe M, Monroe MM. Individualized prediction of late-onset dysphagia in head and neck cancer survivors. Head and Neck. 2020;42(4):708-18. doi: 10.1002/hed.26039.
Barocas DA, Penson DF. Functional Recovery Following Primary Treatment for Prostate Cancer: Update from the CEASAR Study. European Urology Focus. 2020;6(2):205-7. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2019.04.001.
Gallicchio L, Elena JW, Rogers S, S. F, Carter M, Hamilton AS, Hastert T, Hunter LL, Li L, Lynch CF, Milam J, Millar M, Modjeski D, Paddock LE, Reed AR, Moses L, Stroup AM, Sweeney C, Trapido EJ, West MM, Wu X-C, Helzlsouer KJ. Utilizing SEER cancer registries for population-based cancer survivor epidemiologic studies: a feasibility study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020;29(9):1699-709. Epub 2020/07/12. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-20-0153; PMCID: 7484198.
Hanson HA, Leiser CL, Madsen MJ, Gardner J, Knight S, Cessna M, Sweeney C, Doherty JA, Smith KR, Bernard PS, Camp NJ. Family study designs informed by tumor heterogeneity and multi-cancer pleiotropies: The power of the Utah population database. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2020;29(4):807-15. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-0912.
Huelster HL, Laviana AA, Joyce DD, Huang LC, Zhao Z, Koyama T, Hoffman KE, Conwill R, Goodman M, Hamilton AS, Wu XC, Paddock LE, Stroup A, Cooperberg M, Hashibe M, O'Neil BB, Kaplan SH, Greenfield S, Penson DF, Barocas DA. Radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy: Effect of timing of postprostatectomy radiation on functional outcomes. Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations. 2020;38(12):930.e23-.e32. doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2020.06.022.
Hyde MA, Grossman D, Wu YP, Buys S, Gren LH, Hashibe M. Vitamin D, melanoma risk, and tumor thickness in PLCO cancer screening trial patients. JAAPA : official journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 2020;33(6):35-41. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000662388.18867.42.
Ou JY, Hanson HA, Ramsay JM, Kaddas HK, Pope CA, Leiser CL, VanDerslice J, Kirchhoff AC. Fine particulate matter air pollution and mortality among pediatric, adolescent, and young adult cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2020;29(10):1929-39. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-1363.
Reisz PA, Laviana AA, Zhao Z, Huang LC, Koyama T, Conwill R, Hoffman K, Goodman M, Hamilton AS, Wu XC, Paddock LE, Stroup A, Cooperberg MR, Hashibe M, O'Neil BB, Kaplan SH, Greenfield S, Penson DF, Barocas DA. Assessing the Quality of Surgical Care for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer: Results from the CEASAR Study. The Journal of urology. 2020;204(6):1236-41. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001198.
Yoon HJ, Klasky HB, Gounley JP, Alawad M, Gao S, Durbin EB, Wu XC, Stroup A, Doherty J, Coyle L, Penberthy L, Blair Christian J, Tourassi GD. Accelerated training of bootstrap aggregation-based deep information extraction systems from cancer pathology reports. J Biomed Inform. 2020;110:103564. Epub 2020/09/13. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103564. PubMed PMID: 32919043.
2019 Publications
Aylward A, Abdelaziz S, Hunt JP, Buchmann LO, Cannon RB, Lloyd S, Hitchcock Y, Hashibe M, Monroe MM. Rates of Dysphagia-Related Diagnoses in Long-Term Survivors of Head and Neck Cancers. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States). 2019;161(4):643-51. doi: 10.1177/0194599819850154.
Curtin K, Cannon-Albright LA, VanDerslice J, Yu Z, Herget KA, Thota R, Neklason DW. Associations of Tobacco and Alcohol Use with Risk of Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Small Intestine in Utah. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 2019;28(12):1998-2004. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.Epi-19-0465.
Garvin JH, Herget KA, Hashibe M, Kirchhoff AC, Hawley CW, Bolton D, Sweeney C. Linkage between Utah All Payers Claims Database and Central Cancer Registry. Health Serv Res. 2019;54(3):707-13. Epub 2019/01/25. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13114. PubMed PMID: 30675913; PMCID: PMC6505409.Greenberg S, Buys SS, Edwards SL, Espinel W, Fraser A, Gammon A, Hafen B, Herget KA, Kohlmann W, Roundy C, Sweeney C. Population prevalence of individuals meeting criteria for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer testing. Cancer Med. 2019;8(15):6789-98. Epub 2019/09/19. doi: 10.1002/cam4.2534. PubMed PMID: 31531966; PMCID: PMC6825998.
Glenn MJ, Madsen MJ, Davis E, Garner CD, Curtin K, Jones B, Williams JA, Tomasson MH, Camp NJ. Elevated IgM and abnormal free light chain ratio are increased in relatives from high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia pedigrees. Blood Cancer Journal. 2019;9(3). doi: 10.1038/s41408-019-0186-8.
Hashibe M, Ou JY, Herget K, Bolton D, McPherson J, Hawley C, Garvin J, Doherty JA, Sweeney C. Feasibility of Capturing Cancer Treatment Data in the Utah All-Payer Claims Database. JCO clinical cancer informatics. 2019;3:1-10. Epub 2019/11/23. doi: 10.1200/CCI.19.00027. PubMed PMID: 31756128; PMCID: PMC6882521.
Kawakita D, Lee YCA, Gren LH, Buys SS, La Vecchia C, Hashibe M. Fiber intake and the risk of head and neck cancer in the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian (PLCO) cohort. International Journal of Cancer. 2019;145(9):2342-8. doi: 10.1002/ijc.32162.
Kohli DR, Smith KR, Wong J, Yu Z, Boucher K, Faigel DO, Pannala R, Burt RW, Curtin K, Samadder NJ. Familial pancreatic cancer risk: a population-based study in Utah. Journal of Gastroenterology. 2019;54(12):1106-12. doi: 10.1007/s00535-019-01597-3.
Millar MM, Elena JW, Gallicchio L, Edwards SL, Carter ME, Herget KA, Sweeney C. The feasibility of web surveys for obtaining patient-reported outcomes from cancer survivors: a randomized experiment comparing survey modes and brochure enclosures. BMC medical research methodology. 2019;19(1):208. Epub 2019/11/16. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0859-9. PubMed PMID: 31730474; PMCID: PMC6858678.
Millar MM, Kinney AY, Camp NJ, Cannon-Albright LA, Hashibe M, Penson DF, Kirchhoff AC, Neklason DW, Gilsenan AW, Dieck GS, Stroup AM, Edwards SL, Bateman C, Carter ME, Sweeney C. Predictors of Response Outcomes for Research Recruitment Through a Central Cancer Registry: Evidence From 17 Population-Based Studies. American journal of epidemiology. 2019;188(5):928-39. Epub 2019/01/29. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwz011. PubMed PMID: 30689685; PMCID: PMC6494669.
2018 Publications
Abdulsalam A, Garvin JH, Redd A, Carter ME, Sweeney C, Meystre SM. Automated Extraction and Classification of Cancer Stage Mentions fromUnstructured Text Fields in a Central Cancer Registry. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2018;2017:16-25. Epub 2018/06/12. PubMed PMID: 29888032; PMCID: 5961766.
Avila JC, Livingston JA, Rodriguez AM, Kirchhoff AC, Kuo YF, Kaul S. Disparities in adolescent and young adult sarcoma survival: Analyses of the Texas cancer registry and the National SEER Data. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 2018;7(6):681-7. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2018.0034.
Hashibe M, Kirchhoff AC, Kepka D, Kim J, Millar M, Sweeney C, Herget K, Monroe M, Henry NL, Lopez AM, Mooney K. Disparities in cancer survival and incidence by metropolitan versus rural residence in Utah. Cancer Med. 2018;7(4):1490-7. Epub 2018/03/14. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1382. PubMed PMID: 29533005; PMCID: 5911626.
Madsen MJ, Knight S, Sweeney C, Factor R, Salama M, Stijleman IJ, Rajamanickam V, Welm BE, Arunachalam S, Jones B, Rachamadugu R, Rowe K, Cessna MH, Thomas A, Kushi LH, Caan BJ, Bernard PS, Camp NJ. Reparameterization of PAM50 Expression Identifies Novel Breast Tumor Dimensions and Leads to Discovery of a Genome-Wide Significant Breast Cancer Locus at 12q15. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2018;27(6):644-52. Epub 2018/04/14. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-17-0887. PubMed PMID: 29650789; PMCID: 5984724.
Spraker-Perlman H, Smits-Seeman RR, Li H, Kirchhoff AC. Statewide treatment center referral patterns for adolescent and young adult patients with cancer in Utah. Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. 2018;7(6):688-91. doi: 10.1089/jayao.2018.0059.
2017 Publications
Albright FS, Stephenson RA, Agarwal N, Cannon-Albright LA. Relative Risks for Lethal Prostate Cancer Based on Complete Family History of Prostate Cancer Death. Prostate. 2017;77(1):41-8. doi: 10.1002/pros.23247. PubMed PMID: 27527734.
Connor AE, Visvanathan K, Baumgartner KB, Baumgartner RN, Boone SD, Hines LM, Wolff RK, John EM, Slattery ML. Pre-diagnostic breastfeeding, adiposity, and mortality among parous Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women with invasive breast cancer: the Breast Cancer Health Disparities Study. Breast cancer research and treatment. 2017;161(2):321-31. doi: 10.1007/s10549-016-4048-9. PubMed PMID: 27837379; PMCID: PMC5226868.
Herget KA, Stroup AM, Smith KR, Wen M, Sweeney C. Unstaged cancer: Long-term decline in incidence by site and by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Cancer Causes Control. 2017. doi:10.1007/s10552-017-0874-2.
Samadder JN, Valentine JF, Guthery S, Singh H, Bernstein CN, Wan Y, Wong J, Boucher K, Pappas L, Rowe K, Bronner M, Ulrich CM, Burt RW, Curtin K, Smith KR. Colorectal Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Population-Based Study in Utah. Digestive diseases and sciences. 2017:1-7. doi: 10.1007/s10620-016-4435-4.
Slattery ML, Herrick JS, Mullany LE, Stevens JR, Wolff RK. Diet and lifestyle factors associated with miRNA expression in colorectal tissue. Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. 2017;10:1-16. doi: 10.2147/PGPM.S117796. PubMed PMID: 28053552; PMCID: PMC5189704.
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