This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Activity Details

312 * Tue, 8/3/2010, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-206 (West)
Epidemiologic Studies of Obesity and Cancer — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Biometrics Section
Chair(s): Min Chen, Yale University
8:35 AM Plausible 'Nuisance' Contributor to Decreasing Deleterious Association of Overweight and Obese on Mortality Rate Over Calendar Time Tapan Mehta, The University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Nicholas Pajewski, The University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Scott Keith, Thomas Jefferson University ; Kevin Fontaine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ; David B. Allison, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
8:50 AM Estimating Reduction in Absolute Breast Cancer Risk in Individuals and Populations from Modifying Risk Factors Elisabetta Petracci, Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry ; Adriano Decarli, Institute of Medical Statistics and Biometry ; Domenico Palli, Scientific Institute of Tuscany ; Giovanna Masala, Scientific Institute of Tuscany ; David Pee, Information Management Service Inc. ; Ruth Pfeiffer, National Cancer Institute ; Catherine Schairer, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics ; Mitchell H. Gail, National Cancer Institute
9:05 AM Estimating Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Presence of Missing Data in a Population with a Resistant Subset and Multiple Observations Yolanda Cecile Hagar, University of California, Davis ; Laurel Beckett, University of California, Davis ; Danielle Harvey, University of California, Davis School of Medicine ; Joshua Fenton, University of California, Davis School of Medicine
9:20 AM An Assessment of Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors in Punjab Using Ordinal Regression Shahid Kamal, University of the Punjab ; Ghausia Masood Gilani, University of the Punjab ; Rehan Ahmad Khan, University of the Punjab ; Afza Rasul, University of the Punjab
9:35 AM Modeling Treatment Efficacy Under Screening Shih-Yuan Lee, University of Michigan ; Alexander Tsodikov, University of Michigan
9:50 AM BMI, Alcohol, Prostate Cancer, and Mortality Follow-Up Negasi T. Beyene, CDC ; Peter Meyer, National Center for Health Statistics
10:05 AM Floor Discussion



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