• Cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer mortality among 602,242 Norwegian males and females 

      Parajuli, Ranjan; Bjerkaas, Eivind; Tverdal, Aage; Le Marchand, Loïc; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Gram, Inger Torhild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the main cancer types, with high incidence and mortality in Norway. We examined the association between different measures of smoking exposure and CRC mortality overall and by subsite in a large Norwegian cohort. Methods: We followed 602,242 participants from four Norwegian health surveys, aged 19–67 years at enrollment between 1972 and 2003 by linkage ...
    • Smoking and breast cancer risk by race/ethnicity and oestrogen and progesterone receptor status: the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Maskarinec, Gertraud; Wilkens, Lynne R; Haiman, Christopher A.; Le Marchand, Loïc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-18)
      <i>Background</i> - The purpose of this study was to examine if the smoking-related higher breast cancer risk was similar for the five race/ethnicity groups in the Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study and by oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptor status.<p> <p><i>Methods</i> - From 1993 to 2013, we followed 67 313 women who were enrolled in the MEC study at 45–75 years of age. We identified ...
    • Smoking and pancreatic cancer: a sex-specific analysis in the Multiethnic Cohort study 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Le Marchand, Loïc; Setiawan, Veronica Wendy (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-17)
      Purpose To examine whether the detrimental smoking-related association with pancreatic cancer (PC) is the same for women as for men.<p> <p>Methods We analyzed data from 192,035 participants aged 45–75 years, enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort study (MEC) in 1993–1996. We identifed PC cases via linkage to the Hawaii and California Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program cancer registries ...
    • Smoking increases rectal cancer risk to the same extent in women as in men: results from a Norwegian cohort study 

      Parajuli, Ranjan; Bjerkaas, Eivind; Aage, Tverdal; Le Marchand, Loïc; Weiderpass, Elisabete; Gram, Inger Torhild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-06)
      Background: Smoking has recently been established as a risk factor for rectal cancer. We examined whether the smoking-related increase in rectal cancer differed by gender. Methods: We followed 602,242 participants (49% men), aged 19 to 67 years at enrollment from four Norwegian health surveys carried out between 1972 and 2003, by linkage to Norwegian national registries through December 2007. ...
    • Smoking-Related Risks of Colorectal Cancer by Anatomical Subsite and Sex 

      Gram, Inger Torhild; Park, Song-Yi; Wilkens, Lynne R; Haiman, Christopher A.; Le Marchand, Loïc (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-23)
      The purpose of this study was to examine whether the increased risk of colorectal cancer due to cigarette smoking differed by anatomical subsite or sex. We analyzed data from 188,052 participants aged 45–75 years (45% men) who were enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort Study in 1993–1996. During a mean follow-up period of 16.7 years, we identified 4,879 incident cases of invasive colorectal adenocarcinoma. ...