Faculty

Polly A. Newcomb

Research Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology

206-667-3476

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1986
MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1982

Contact

206-667-3476

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Box 358080 (M4-B402)
1100 Fairview Avenue N., M4-B402
Seattle, WA 98109

Research Areas

Research Interests

My interests are the identification of modifiable risk factors for common cancers--colorectal, breast, and endometrium. Increasingly, my work has focused on better characterizing individuals at risk because of the joint presentation of environmental and genetic factors. Over the past 20 years, I have conducted several large population based case-control studies of cancer etiology. Cases enrolled in these studies now form the basis for cohorts to examine factors associated with survivorship. I am also interested in the observational evaluations of screening efficacy.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Cannabis use after a cancer diagnosis in a population-based sample of cancer survivors.
(2024 Mar 22)
Cancer Causes Control
Ton M, Newcomb PA, Jones S, Malen RC, Heffner JL

Body size and risk of colorectal cancer molecular defined subtypes and pathways: Mendelian randomization analyses.
(2024 Mar)
EBioMedicine 101(): 105010
Papadimitriou N, Qu C, Harrison TA, Bever AM, Martin RM, Tsilidis KK, Newcomb PA, Thibodeau SN, Newton CC, Um CY, Obón-Santacana M, Moreno V, Brenner H, Mandic M, Chang-Claude J, Hoffmeister M, Pellatt AJ, Schoen RE, Harlid S, Ogino S, Ugai T, Buchanan DD, Lynch BM, Gruber SB, Cao Y, Hsu L, Huyghe JR, Lin Y, Steinfelder RS, Sun W, Van Guelpen B, Zaidi SH, Toland AE, Berndt SI, Huang WY, Aglago EK, Drew DA, French AJ, Georgeson P, Giannakis M, Hullar M, Nowak JA, Thomas CE, Le Marchand L, Cheng I, Gallinger S, Jenkins MA, Gunter MJ, Campbell PT, Peters U, Song M, Phipps AI, Murphy N

Dietary Factors Differ Between Young-Onset and Older-Onset Colorectal Cancer Patients.
(2024)
Nutr Cancer 76(4): 352-355
Burnett-Hartman AN, Ton M, He Q, Malen RC, Potter JD, Reedy AM, Phipps AI, Newcomb PA

Colorectal cancer pre-diagnostic symptoms are associated with anatomic cancer site.
(2024 Feb 6)
BMC Gastroenterol 24(1): 65
Briggs NL, Ton M, Malen RC, Reedy AM, Cohen SA, Phipps AI, Burnett-Hartman AN, Newcomb PA

Association between circulating inflammatory markers and adult cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis.
(2024 Feb)
EBioMedicine 100(): 104991
Yarmolinsky J, Robinson JW, Mariosa D, Karhunen V, Huang J, Dimou N, Murphy N, Burrows K, Bouras E, Smith-Byrne K, Lewis SJ, Galesloot TE, Kiemeney LA, Vermeulen S, Martin P, Albanes D, Hou L, Newcomb PA, White E, Wolk A, Wu AH, Le Marchand L, Phipps AI, Buchanan DD, International Lung Cancer Consortium, PRACTICAL Consortium, Zhao SS, Gill D, Chanock SJ, Purdue MP, Davey Smith G, Brennan P, Herzig KH, Järvelin MR, Amos CI, Hung RJ, Dehghan A, Johansson M, Gunter MJ, Tsilidis KK, Martin RM

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