Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

anderson_k@epi.umn.edu
612-626-8568 — office

Research Interests

Epidemiology with a biological/laboratory emphasis; etiology and early detection of adult solid tumors, including pancreatic, colorectal, lung, endometrial, and breast.

Selected Publications

Anderson KE, Kadlubar FF, Kulldorff M, Harnack L, Gross M, Lang NP, Barber C. Rothman N, Sinha R. Dietary intake of heterocyclic amines and benzo(a)pyrene: Associations with pancreatic cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005.

Thyagarajan B, Anderson KE, Kong F, Selk FR, Lynch CF, Gross M. New approaches for genotyping paraffin embedded breast tissue from cancer patients: The Iowa Women's Health Study. J Clin Pathol. 2005: 58:955-61.

Limburg PJ, Anderson KE, Johnson TW, Jacobs DR Jr, Lazovich D, Hong CP, Nicodemus KK, Folsom AR. Diabetes mellitus and subsite-specific colorectal cancer risks in the Iowa Women's Health Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005; 14:133-7.

Sweeney C, Blair CK, Anderson KE, Lazovich D, Folsom AR. Risk factors for breast cancer in elderly women. Am J Epidemiol. 2004;160:868-75.

Folsom AR, Anderson KE, Sweeney C, Jacobs DR Jr. Diabetes as a risk factor for death following endometrial cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2004; 94:740-5.