Julie A. Ross, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Research Interests:

Molecular epidemiology; childhood cancer; adult leukemia

Recent Publications:

Folsom AR, Anderson JP, Ross JA. Hormone replacement therapy and ovarian cancer: The Iowa Women’s Health Study. Epidemiology 2004; 15: 100-104.

Kiffmeyer WR, Kastel E, Davies SM, Envall J, Robison LL, Ross JA. Genetic polymorphisms in the Hmong population: implications for cancer etiology and survival. Cancer 2004; 100:411-417.

Anderson J, Ross JA, Folsom AR. Anthropometric variables, physical activity, and incidence of ovarian cancer: The Iowa Women’s Health Study. Cancer 2004; 100:1515-21.

Shu XO, Perentesis JP, Wen WQ, Buckley JD, Boyle E, Ross JA, Robison LL. Parental exposure to medications and hydrocarbons and ras mutations in children with ALL. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004; 13:1230-1235.

Ross JA. Inherited cancer in children: practical/ethical problems and challenges. Invited Commentary for European Journal of Cancer 2004; 40:2471-2472.

Ross JA, Spector LG, Olshan AO, Bunin GR. Birth certificates: a best control scenario? Invited peer-reviewed commentary, Am J of Epidemiology 2004; 159:922-924.

Ross JA, Oeffinger K, Davies SM, Mertens AC, Langer E, Sklar C, Stovall M, Yasui Y, Robison LL. Genetic variation in the leptin receptor gene and obesity in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivors Study. J Clin Oncol 2004; 22:3358-62.

Ross JA, Blair C, Parker E, Cerhan JR, Folsom AF. Body mass index and risk of leukemia in older women. Cancer Epi Biom Prev 2004; 13:1810-1813.

Spector LG, Feusner J, Ross JA. Rising incidence of hepatoblastoma and its relation to low birth weight in the United States, 1975-1999. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2004; 43:206. (letter)

Ross JA, Spector LG, Robison LL, Olshan AF. Epidemiology of leukemia in children with Down syndrome. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2004; 43:1-5.

Canfield K, Spector LG, Robison LL, Roesler M, Olshan AF, Smith FO, Heerema N, Barnard D, Blair CK, Lazovitch D, Ross JA. Childhood and maternal infections and risk of acute leukemia in children with Down syndrome: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Br J Cancer. Br J Cancer 2004; 91:1866-1872.

Ross JA, Olshan AF. Pediatric cancer in the United States: The Children’s Oncology Group Epidemiology Research Program. Cancer Epi Biom Prev 2004;13:1552-1554.

Spector LG, Xie Y, Robison LL, Heerema N, Hilden JH, Lange B, Felix C, Davies SM, Slavin J, Potter JD, Reaman GH, Blair CK, Ross JA. Maternal diet and infant leukemia: the DNA topoisomerase II inhibitor hypothesis. Cancer Epi Biom Prev, in press.

Ross JA, Sinner P, Blair CK, Cerhan JR, Folsom AR. Estrogen replacement therapy is not associated with adult leukemia. Cancer Causes and Control, in press.

Blair C, Cerhan JR, Folsom AF, Ross JA. Anthropometric factors and multiple myeloma in post-menopausal women. Epidemiology, in press.




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Mailing Address:
Division of Pediatric Epidemiology
MMC 422, 420 Delaware St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455 55455

Phone (Work): (612) 626-2902

Email: ross@epi.umn.edu