Ross L. Prentice

TL;DR: Oral contraceptives reduce the rate of endometrial cancer, provided protection against ovarian cancer, and do not seem to increase breast cancer incidence, although the relative risk of cervical cancer is elevated, and Mortality risks with older OCs outweigh the benefits.

TL;DR: The incidence of VZV infection in marrow transplant recipients who survive at least 6 months develop varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection was not influenced by graftversus-host disease or predicted by the results of dinitrochlorobenzene skin testing.

TL;DR: Overall, the association of most CRC susceptibility loci identified in initial GWAS seems to be invariant to the other risk factors considered; however, the results suggest potential modification of the rs16892766 effect by vegetable consumption.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed a large, diverse database of total expenditure measured by the doubly labeled water method for males and females aged 8 days to 95 years and found that fat-free mass-adjusted expenditure accelerates rapidly in neonates to ~50% above adult values at ~1 year; declines slowly to adult levels by ~20 years; remains stable in adulthood (20 to 60 years), even during pregnancy; then declines in older adults.

TL;DR: Combined trial and observational study data support an adverse effect on breast cancer risk, and women who initiate use soon after menopause, and continue for many years, appear to be at particularly high risk.