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Genomic and mutational profiling to assess clonal relationships between multiple non-small cell lung cancers.

Girard N, Ostrovnaya I, Lau C, Park B, Ladanyi M, Finley D, Deshpande C, Rusch V, Orlow I, Travis WD, Pao W, Begg CB.

Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Aug 15;15(16):5184-90. Epub 2009 Aug 11.PMID: 19671847 [PubMed - in process]Related articles

Evaluation of the clonal origin of multiple primary melanomas using molecular profiling.

Orlow I, Tommasi DV, Bloom B, Ostrovnaya I, Cotignola J, Mujumdar U, Busam KJ, Jungbluth AA, Scolyer RA, Thompson JF, Armstrong BK, Berwick M, Thomas NE, Begg CB.

J Invest Dermatol. 2009 Aug;129(8):1972-82. Epub 2009 Mar 12.PMID: 19282844 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Alcohol intake and cigarette smoking and risk of a contralateral breast cancer: The Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study.

Knight JA, Bernstein L, Largent J, Capanu M, Begg CB, Mellemkjaer L, Lynch CF, Malone KE, Reiner AS, Liang X, Haile RW, Boice JD Jr; WECARE Study Collaborative Group, Bernstein JL.

Am J Epidemiol. 2009 Apr 15;169(8):962-8. Epub 2009 Feb 11.PMID: 19211621 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Meta-analysis methods for diagnostic accuracy.

Begg CB.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2008 Nov;61(11):1081-2; discussion 1083-4. No abstract available. PMID: 19208369 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Sun protection and skin self-examination in melanoma survivors.

Mujumdar UJ, Hay JL, Monroe-Hinds YC, Hummer AJ, Begg CB, Wilcox HB, Oliveria SA, Berwick M.

Psychooncology. 2009 Oct;18(10):1106-15.PMID: 19142859 [PubMed - in process]Related articlesFree article

Variants in the ATM gene associated with a reduced risk of contralateral breast cancer.

Concannon P, Haile RW, Børresen-Dale AL, Rosenstein BS, Gatti RA, Teraoka SN, Diep TA, Jansen L, Atencio DP, Langholz B, Capanu M, Liang X, Begg CB, Thomas DC, Bernstein L, Olsen JH, Malone KE, Lynch CF, Anton-Culver H, Bernstein JL; Women's Environment, Cancer, and Radiation Epidemiology Study Collaborative Group.

Cancer Res. 2008 Aug 15;68(16):6486-91.PMID: 18701470 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

DNA damage and repair capacity in patients with lung cancer: prediction of multiple primary tumors.

Orlow I, Park BJ, Mujumdar U, Patel H, Siu-Lau P, Clas BA, Downey R, Flores R, Bains M, Rizk N, Dominguez G, Jani J, Berwick M, Begg CB, Kris MG, Rusch VW.

J Clin Oncol. 2008 Jul 20;26(21):3560-6.PMID: 18640936 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Disenrollment from Medicare managed care among beneficiaries with and without a cancer diagnosis.

Elkin EB, Ishill N, Riley GF, Bach PB, Gonen M, Begg CB, Schrag D.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Jul 16;100(14):1013-21. Epub 2008 Jul 8.PMID: 18612131 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The use of hierarchical models for estimating relative risks of individual genetic variants: an application to a study of melanoma.

Capanu M, Orlow I, Berwick M, Hummer AJ, Thomas DC, Begg CB.

Stat Med. 2008 May 20;27(11):1973-92.PMID: 18335566 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Comparison of properties of tests for assessing tumor clonality.

Ostrovnaya I, Seshan VE, Begg CB.

Biometrics. 2008 Dec;64(4):1018-22. Epub 2008 Feb 11.PMID: 18266893 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Variation of breast cancer risk among BRCA1/2 carriers.

Begg CB, Haile RW, Borg A, Malone KE, Concannon P, Thomas DC, Langholz B, Bernstein L, Olsen JH, Lynch CF, Anton-Culver H, Capanu M, Liang X, Hummer AJ, Sima C, Bernstein JL.

JAMA. 2008 Jan 9;299(2):194-201.PMID: 18182601 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Estimating the empirical Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient in the presence of error with nested data.

Moskowitz CS, Seshan VE, Riedel ER, Begg CB.

Stat Med. 2008 Jul 20;27(16):3191-208.PMID: 18172873 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Effect of systemic adjuvant treatment on risk for contralateral breast cancer in the Women's Environment, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study.

Bertelsen L, Bernstein L, Olsen JH, Mellemkjaer L, Haile RW, Lynch CF, Malone KE, Anton-Culver H, Christensen J, Langholz B, Thomas DC, Begg CB, Capanu M, Ejlertsen B, Stovall M, Boice JD Jr, Shore RE; Women's Environment, Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study Collaborative Group, Bernstein JL.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2008 Jan 2;100(1):32-40. Epub 2007 Dec 25.PMID: 18159070 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Letter to the editor of Biometrics.

Begg CB.

Biometrics. 2007 Sep;63(3):964-5; author reply 965-6. No abstract available. PMID: 17825027 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Statistical tests for clonality.

Begg CB, Eng KH, Hummer AJ.

Biometrics. 2007 Jun;63(2):522-30.PMID: 17688504 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Number of nevi and early-life ambient UV exposure are associated with BRAF-mutant melanoma.

Thomas NE, Edmiston SN, Alexander A, Millikan RC, Groben PA, Hao H, Tolbert D, Berwick M, Busam K, Begg CB, Mattingly D, Ollila DW, Tse CK, Hummer A, Lee-Taylor J, Conway K.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 May;16(5):991-7.PMID: 17507627 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Reproductive history and risk of second primary breast cancer: the WECARE study.

Largent JA, Capanu M, Bernstein L, Langholz B, Mellemkaer L, Malone KE, Begg CB, Haile RW, Lynch CF, Anton-Culver H, Wolitzer A, Bernstein JL.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 May;16(5):906-11.PMID: 17507614 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Computed tomography screening and lung cancer outcomes.

Bach PB, Jett JR, Pastorino U, Tockman MS, Swensen SJ, Begg CB.

JAMA. 2007 Mar 7;297(9):953-61. Erratum in: JAMA. 2007 Aug 1;298(5):518. PMID: 17341709 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Multiple imputation for correcting verification bias by Ofer Harel and Xiao-Hua Zhou, Statistics in Medicine 2006; 25:3769-3786.

Hanley JA, Dendukuri N, Begg CB.

Stat Med. 2007 Jul 10;26(15):3046-7; author reply 3047-50. No abstract available. PMID: 17340672 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

CDKN2A germline mutations in individuals with cutaneous malignant melanoma.

Orlow I, Begg CB, Cotignola J, Roy P, Hummer AJ, Clas BA, Mujumdar U, Canchola R, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Kanetsky PA, Wilcox H, Busam K, From L, Berwick M; GEM Study Group.

J Invest Dermatol. 2007 May;127(5):1234-43. Epub 2007 Jan 11.PMID: 17218939 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Ambient UV, personal sun exposure and risk of multiple primary melanomas.

Kricker A, Armstrong BK, Goumas C, Litchfield M, Begg CB, Hummer AJ, Marrett LD, Theis B, Millikan RC, Thomas N, Culver HA, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Kanetsky PA, Busam K, From L, Mujumdar U, Zanetti R, Berwick M; for the GEM Study Group.

Cancer Causes Control. 2007 Apr;18(3):295-304. Epub 2007 Jan 6.PMID: 17206532 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Properties of analysis methods that account for clustering in volume-outcome studies when the primary predictor is cluster size.

Panageas KS, Schrag D, Russell Localio A, Venkatraman ES, Begg CB.

Stat Med. 2007 Apr 30;26(9):2017-35.PMID: 17016864 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Population-based study of natural variation in the melanocortin-1 receptor gene and melanoma.

Kanetsky PA, Rebbeck TR, Hummer AJ, Panossian S, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Culver HA, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Busam K, From L, Mujumdar U, Wilcox H, Begg CB, Berwick M.

Cancer Res. 2006 Sep 15;66(18):9330-7.PMID: 16982779 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The prevalence of CDKN2A germ-line mutations and relative risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma: an international population-based study.

Berwick M, Orlow I, Hummer AJ, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Kanetsky PA, Busam K, From L, Mujumdar U, Wilcox H, Begg CB; GEM Study Group.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Aug;15(8):1520-5.PMID: 16896043 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

A method for evaluating the impact of individual haplotypes on disease incidence in molecular epidemiology studies.

Venkatraman ES, Mitra N, Begg CB.

Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2004;3:Article27. Epub 2004 Oct 7.PMID: 16646806 [PubMed]Related articlesFree article

Marketing drugs too early in testing.

Begg CB, Brawley O, Califf RM, Demets DL, Ellenberg SS, Kaplan RS.

Science. 2006 Apr 14;312(5771):195. No abstract available. PMID: 16614197 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

A design for cancer case-control studies using only incident cases: experience with the GEM study of melanoma.

Begg CB, Hummer AJ, Mujumdar U, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Culver HA, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Busam K, From L, Berwick M; GEM Study Group.

Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Jun;35(3):756-64. Epub 2006 Mar 23.PMID: 16556646 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cancer survivorship--genetic susceptibility and second primary cancers: research strategies and recommendations.

Travis LB, Rabkin CS, Brown LM, Allan JM, Alter BP, Ambrosone CB, Begg CB, Caporaso N, Chanock S, DeMichele A, Figg WD, Gospodarowicz MK, Hall EJ, Hisada M, Inskip P, Kleinerman R, Little JB, Malkin D, Ng AK, Offit K, Pui CH, Robison LL, Rothman N, Shields PG, Strong L, Taniguchi T, Tucker MA, Greene MH.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2006 Jan 4;98(1):15-25. Review.PMID: 16391368 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Lifetime risk of melanoma in CDKN2A mutation carriers in a population-based sample.

Begg CB, Orlow I, Hummer AJ, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Mitra N, Busam K, From L, Berwick M; Genes Environment and Melanoma Study Group.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 Oct 19;97(20):1507-15.PMID: 16234564 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The effect of changes in tumor size on breast carcinoma survival in the U.S.: 1975-1999.

Elkin EB, Hudis C, Begg CB, Schrag D.

Cancer. 2005 Sep 15;104(6):1149-57.PMID: 16088887 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies require study by study examination: first for heterogeneity, and then for sources of heterogeneity.

Begg CB.

J Clin Epidemiol. 2005 Sep;58(9):865-6. No abstract available. PMID: 16085189 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reflections on publication criteria for genetic association studies.

Begg CB.

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Jun;14(6):1364-5. No abstract available. PMID: 15941941 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: patterns and outcomes of care in the Medicare population.

Schrag D, Mitra N, Xu F, Rabbani F, Bach PB, Herr H, Begg CB.

Urology. 2005 Jun;65(6):1118-25.PMID: 15922428 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Variations among high volume surgeons in the rate of complications after radical prostatectomy: further evidence that technique matters.

Bianco FJ Jr, Riedel ER, Begg CB, Kattan MW, Scardino PT.

J Urol. 2005 Jun;173(6):2099-103.PMID: 15879851 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

HER2 codon 655 polymorphism and breast cancer: results from kin-cohort and case-control analyses.

Millikan RC, Hummer AJ, Wolff MS, Hishida A, Begg CB.

Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2005 Feb;89(3):309-12.PMID: 15754131 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Benchmarking lung cancer mortality rates in current and former smokers.

Bach PB, Elkin EB, Pastorino U, Kattan MW, Mushlin AI, Begg CB, Parkin DM.

Chest. 2004 Dec;126(6):1742-9.PMID: 15596668 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Resurrecting treatment histories of dead patients: a study design that should be laid to rest.

Bach PB, Schrag D, Begg CB.

JAMA. 2004 Dec 8;292(22):2765-70.PMID: 15585737 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Familial aggregation of melanoma risks in a large population-based sample of melanoma cases.

Begg CB, Hummer A, Mujumdar U, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Klotz JB, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Berwick M; GEM Study Group.

Cancer Causes Control. 2004 Nov;15(9):957-65.PMID: 15577298 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reflections on the landmark studies of beta-carotene supplementation.

Duffield-Lillico AJ, Begg CB.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004 Dec 1;96(23):1729-31. No abstract available. PMID: 15572749 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Two-stage designs for gene-disease association studies with sample size constraints.

Satagopan JM, Venkatraman ES, Begg CB.

Biometrics. 2004 Sep;60(3):589-97.PMID: 15339280 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Estimating the relative risk of developing melanoma in INK4A carriers.

Berwick M, Orlow I, Mahabir S, Myskowski P, Coit D, Brady MS, Roy P, Song Y, Canchola R, Barz A, Halpern A, Bolognia J, Eng S, Elahi A, Begg CB.

Eur J Cancer Prev. 2004 Feb;13(1):65-70.PMID: 15075790 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Variations among individual surgeons in the rate of positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy specimens.

Eastham JA, Kattan MW, Riedel E, Begg CB, Wheeler TM, Gerigk C, Gonen M, Reuter V, Scardino PT.

J Urol. 2003 Dec;170(6 Pt 1):2292-5.PMID: 14634399 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

The effect of clustering of outcomes on the association of procedure volume and surgical outcomes.

Panageas KS, Schrag D, Riedel E, Bach PB, Begg CB.

Ann Intern Med. 2003 Oct 21;139(8):658-65.PMID: 14568854 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Surgeon volume compared to hospital volume as a predictor of outcome following primary colon cancer resection.

Schrag D, Panageas KS, Riedel E, Hsieh L, Bach PB, Guillem JG, Begg CB.

J Surg Oncol. 2003 Jun;83(2):68-78; discussion 78-9.PMID: 12772198 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Variation of serum prostate-specific antigen levels: an evaluation of year-to-year fluctuations.

Eastham JA, Riedel E, Scardino PT, Shike M, Fleisher M, Schatzkin A, Lanza E, Latkany L, Begg CB; Polyp Prevention Trial Study Group.

JAMA. 2003 May 28;289(20):2695-700.PMID: 12771116 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Adherence to surveillance among patients with superficial bladder cancer.

Schrag D, Hsieh LJ, Rabbani F, Bach PB, Herr H, Begg CB.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003 Apr 16;95(8):588-97.PMID: 12697851 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Kin-cohort evaluation of relative risks of genetic variants.

Saunders CL, Begg CB.

Genet Epidemiol. 2003 Apr;24(3):220-9.PMID: 12652526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Variations in lung cancer risk among smokers.

Bach PB, Kattan MW, Thornquist MD, Kris MG, Tate RC, Barnett MJ, Hsieh LJ, Begg CB.

J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003 Mar 19;95(6):470-8.PMID: 12644540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Taking stock of volume-outcome studies.

Begg CB, Scardino PT.

J Clin Oncol. 2003 Feb 1;21(3):393-4. No abstract available. PMID: 12560422 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Hospital and surgeon procedure volume as predictors of outcome following rectal cancer resection.

Schrag D, Panageas KS, Riedel E, Cramer LD, Guillem JG, Bach PB, Begg CB.

Ann Surg. 2002 Nov;236(5):583-92.PMID: 12409664 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article