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

Recent Publications

Barnholtz-Sloan J, Patel N, Rollison D, Kortepeter K, Mackinnon J, Giuliano A. Incidence trends of invasive cervical cancer in the United States by combined race and ethnicity. Cancer Causes Control. In press, 2009.

McKean-Cowdin R, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Inskip P, Ruder A, Butler M, Rajaraman P, Razavi P, Patoka J, Wiencke J, Bondy M, Wrensch M. Associations between polymorphisms in DNA repair genes and glioblastoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. In press, 2009.

Hernandez BY, Barnholtz-Sloan J, German RR, Giuliano A, Goodman MT, King JB, Negoita S, Villalon-Gomez JM. Burden of invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the penis in the United States, 1998-2003. Cancer 113 (10 Suppl):2883-2891, 2008.

Bondy ML, Scheurer ME, Malmer B, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Davis FG, Il'yasova D, Kruchko C, McCarthy BJ, Rajaraman P, Schwartzbaum JA, Sadetzki S, Schlehofer B, Tihan T, Wiemels JL, Wrensch M, Buffler PA; Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. Brain tumor epidemiology: consensus from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium. Cancer 113(7 Suppl):1953-1968, 2008.

Barnholtz-Sloan J, Sloan AE, Land S, Kupsky W, Monteiro AN. Somatic alterations in brain tumors. Oncol Rep 20:203-210, 2008.

Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Williams VL, Maldonado JL, Shahani D, Stockwell HG, Chamberlain M, Sloan AE. Patterns of care and outcomes among elderly individuals with primary malignant astrocytoma. J Neurosurg 108:642-648, 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.

Tiwari HK, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Wineinger N, Padilla MA, Vaughan LK, Allison DB. Review and evaluation of methods correcting for population stratification with a focus on underlying statistical principles. Hum Hered 66:67-86, 2008.