GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES (ONCOLOGY)

JILL S. BARNHOLTZ-SLOAN, PhD Assistant Professor General Medical Sciences (Oncology) Phone: 216/368-1506 Fax: 216/844-7832 email: jsb42@case.edu

Research Interests

Cancer epidemiology
Brain Tumor molecular/genetic epidemiology
Health disparities
Population genetics – estimating genetic ancestry
Cancer outcomes

Selected Publications

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Williams VL, Maldonado J, Stockwell H, Shahani D, Chamberlain MC, Sloan AE. Age at diagnosis, type of treatment and survival in elderly patients with anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma. J Neurosurg. In press, 2008.

Davis FG, Malmer BS, Aldape K, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Bondy ML, Brannstrom T, Bruner JM, Burger PC, Collins VP, Inskip PD, Kruchko C, McCarthy BJ, McLendon RE, Sadetzki S, Tihan T, Wrensch MR, Buffler PA. Issues of diagnostic review in brain tumor studies: from the brain tumor epidemiology consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:484-489, 2008.

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, McEvoy B, Shriver MD, Rebbeck TR. Ancestry estimation and correction for population stratification in molecular epidemiologic association studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:471-477, 2008.

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Kruchko C. Meningiomas: causes and risk factors. Neurosurg Focus 23:E2, 2007.

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Maldonado JL, Williams VL, Curry WT, Rodkey EA, Barker FG 2nd, Sloan AE. Racial/ethnic differences in survival among elderly patients with a primary glioblastoma. J Neurooncol 85:171-180, 2007.

Malmer B, Adatto P, Armstrong G, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Bernstein JL, Claus E, Davis F, Houlston R, Il'yasova D, Jenkins R, Johansen C, Lai R, Lau C, McCarthy B, Nielsen H, Olson SH, Sadetzki S, Shete S, Wiklund F, Wrensch M, Yang P, Bondy M. GLIOGENE an international consortium to understand familial glioma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:1730-1734, 2007.

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Maldonado JL, Pow-Sang J, Guiliano AR. Incidence trends in primary malignant penile cancer. Urol Oncol 25:361-367, 2007.