Epidemiology

It has been shown that dietary patterns promoting chronic inflammation, including the empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP), are associated with risk of weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. Empirical dietary inflammatory pattern (EDIP) score is a food-based dietary index that can be used to...

Lung cancer survivors are at significant risk of developing second primary lung cancer (SPLC), with an incidence of four to six times greater than that of developing initial primary lung cancer (IPLC) in the general population. While prior studies have shown racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence and mortality of initial lung cancer,...

Black men are at two times higher risk of getting prostate cancer than their white counterparts. While the American Urologic Association recommends screening as early as 40 years of age if risk factors are present, disparities in prostate cancer incidence persist.