Kristin Wallace

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2017
Cigarette smoking and the association with serous ovarian cancer in African American women: African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES)
Cancer causes & control : CCC ·doi:10.1007/s10552-017-0899-6

BACKGROUND: Smoking is a risk factor for mucinous ovarian cancer (OvCa) in Caucasians. Whether a similar association exists in African Americans (AA) is unknown. METHODS: We conducted a population-based case-control study of incident OvCa …

observational 2016
The Association Between Body Mass Index and Presenting Symptoms in African American Women with Ovarian Cancer
Journal of women's health (2002) ·doi:10.1089/jwh.2015.5359

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer, the most lethal gynecologic malignancy, typically comes to clinical attention due to nonspecific gastrointestinal or pelvic symptoms. African Americans with ovarian cancer have a greater mortality burden than whi…

observational 2014
A multi-center population-based case-control study of ovarian cancer in African-American women: the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES)
BMC cancer ·doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-688

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer (OVCA) is the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer, with poorer survival for African American (AA) women compared to whites. However, little is known about risk factors for OVCA in AA. To study the epi…