Michael Hauptmann

TL;DR: Despite uncertainty in the estimates of occupational red bone marrow absorbed doses, good general agreement is found between the doses and translocation frequencies, lending support to the credibility of the dose assessment for this large cohort of U.S. radiologic technologists.

TL;DR: The proposed approaches provide useful strategies for data collection and confounder assessment for general retrospective record-linkage studies, particular those using hospital databases on radiological procedures for the assessment of exposure to ionizing or non-ionizing radiation.

TL;DR: A tensor product spline model is proposed for describing exposure-response relationships for protracted time-dependent occupational exposure histories in epidemiologic studies and suggests that, at low exposure levels risk increased at short latencies followed by a slow decline for longer latency periods, and, on the other hand, risk was higher but did not change much by latency for higher exposure levels.

TL;DR: A flexible, yet parsimonious, spline function model is demonstrated to investigate latency patterns for radon progeny exposure and lung cancer in the Colorado Plateau uranium miners cohort, and extends a previously proposed bilinear model.

TL;DR: The data suggest that low alcohol intake is not related to increased breast cancer risk in Asian-American women and that neither alcohol nor cigarette use contributed to the elevated risks inAsian- American women associated with migration patterns and Westernization.