Steroid Contraceptives and Neoplasia

Thomas, David B.

Abstract

Provide for the analyses and interpretation of data from the World Health Organization Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives about the relationship between use of steroid contraceptives, primary depomedroxyprogesterone(DMPA) and oral contraceptives, and the occurrence in women of cancer of the breast and reproductive tract.

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
• Type: Research and Development Contracts (N01)
• Project #: N01HD052901-007
• Application #: 2315531
• Project Start: 1985-01-01
• Project End: 1990-02-28
• Budget Start: 1990-04-01
• Budget End: 1990-12-31
• Fiscal Year: 1990

Institution

• Name: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• DUNS #: 075524595
• City: Seattle
• State: WA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 98109

Publications

Thomas, David B; Ray, Roberta M; Qin, Qin et al. (2002) Risk factors for progression of squamous cell cervical carcinoma in-situ to invasive cervical cancer: results of a multinational study. Cancer Causes Control 13:683-90

Morabia, A; Costanza, M C; WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives (2000) Reproductive factors and incidence of breast cancer: an international ecological study. Soz Praventivmed 45:247-57

Morabia, A; Costanza, M C (1998) International variability in ages at menarche, first livebirth, and menopause. World Health Organization Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Am J Epidemiol 148:1195-205

Skegg, D C; Noonan, E A; Paul, C et al. (1995) Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate and breast cancer. A pooled analysis of the World Health Organization and New Zealand studies. JAMA 273:799-804

Thomas, D B; Noonan, E A (1993) Breast cancer and prolonged lactation. The WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Int J Epidemiol 22:619-26

Thomas, D B; Noonan, E A (1992) Breast cancer and specific types of combined oral contraceptives. The WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Br J Cancer 65:108-13

(1991) Breast cancer and depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate: a multinational study. WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Lancet 338:833-8

Thomas, D B; Noonan, E A (1991) Risk of breast cancer in relation to use of combined oral contraceptives near the age of menopause. WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Cancer Causes Control 2:389-94

(1990) Breast cancer and combined oral contraceptives: results from a multinational study. The WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Br J Cancer 61:110-9

(1989) Combined oral contraceptives and gallbladder cancer. The WHO Collaborative Study of Neoplasia and Steroid Contraceptives. Int J Epidemiol 18:309-14