Valerie McCormack

ORCID: 0000-0001-7397-3442
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Research Areas
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
  • Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Male Breast Health Studies
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Viral-associated cancers and disorders
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer
2016-2025

Alberta Health Services
2025

World Health Organization
2019-2024

Hudson Institute
2023

John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016-2023

World Health Organization - Pakistan
2019-2022

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2003-2020

National Art Gallery of Namibia
2019

Federal Medical Centre
2019

Abia State University
2019

Breast cancer has distinct causes, prognoses, and outcomes effects in patients at premenopausal postmenopausal ages. We sought to assess the global burden trends breast by menopausal status.

10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30215-1 article EN cc-by-nc-nd The Lancet Global Health 2020-07-22

When breast cancer is detected and treated early, the chances of survival are very high. However, women in many settings face complex barriers to early detection, including social, economic, geographic, other interrelated factors, which can limit their access timely, affordable, effective health care services. Previously, Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) developed resource‐stratified guidelines for detection diagnosis cancer. In this consensus article from sixth BHGI Summit held...

10.1002/cncr.32887 article EN Cancer 2020-04-29

Epidemiological evidence suggests that the Mediterranean diet (MD) could reduce risk of breast cancer (BC). As from prospective studies remains scarce and conflicting, we investigated association between adherence to MD BC among 335,062 women recruited 1992 2000, in ten European countries, followed for 11 years on average. Adherence was estimated through an adapted relative (arMED) score excluding alcohol. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used while adjusting factors. A total...

10.1002/ijc.27958 article EN International Journal of Cancer 2012-11-26

Abstract Introduction Mammographic density is a strong breast cancer risk factor and major determinant of screening sensitivity. However, there currently no validated estimation method for full-field digital mammography (FFDM). Methods The performance three area-based approaches (BI-RADS, the semi-automated Cumulus, fully-automated ImageJ-based approach) volumetric methods (Volpara, Quantra single energy x-ray absorptiometry (SXA)) were assessed in 3168 FFDM images from 414 cases 685...

10.1186/s13058-014-0439-1 article EN cc-by Breast Cancer Research 2014-09-19

BackgroundBreast cancer is the second leading cause of death from in women sub-Saharan Africa, yet there are few well characterised large-scale survival studies with complete follow-up data. We aimed to provide robust estimates this setting and apportion gaps.MethodsThe African Breast Cancer-Disparities Outcomes (ABC-DO) prospective cohort study was done at eight hospitals across five countries (Namibia, Nigeria, South Uganda, Zambia). prospectively recruited (aged ≥18 years) who attended...

10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30261-8 article EN cc-by-nc-nd The Lancet Global Health 2020-08-19

Valentina Gallo and colleagues provide detailed guidance to authors help more accurately report the findings of epidemiological studies involving biomarkers. Their covers issues regarding collection, handling storage biological samples; laboratory methods, validity reliability biomarkers; specificities study design; ethical considerations.

10.1371/journal.pmed.1001117 article EN cc-by PLoS Medicine 2011-10-25

To clarify the role of previous lung diseases (chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, and tuberculosis) in development cancer, authors conducted a pooled analysis studies International Lung Cancer Consortium. Seventeen including 24,607 cases 81,829 controls (noncases), mainly Europe North America, were included (1984–2011). Using self-reported data on diagnoses diseases, derived study-specific effect estimates by means logistic regression models or Cox proportional hazards adjusted for...

10.1093/aje/kws151 article EN American Journal of Epidemiology 2012-09-17

Isobel dos Santos Silva and Bianca De Stavola colleagues reanalyzed individual participant data from 32 published unpublished studies to obtain precise estimates of the association between birth size breast cancer risk.

10.1371/journal.pmed.0050193 article EN cc-by PLoS Medicine 2008-09-26

Recent cohort studies suggest that increased breast cancer risks were associated with longer smoking duration, higher pack-years and a dose-response relationship increasing of between menarche first full-term pregnancy (FFTP). Studies comprehensive quantitative life-time measures passive an association dose risk. We conducted study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer Nutrition to examine active risk invasive possible effect modification by known factors. Among 322,988...

10.1002/ijc.28508 article EN International Journal of Cancer 2014-01-13
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