Elaine Ron

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PhD Epidemiology Johns Hopkins University

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According to Wikipedia, Elaine Straus Ron was an American epidemiologist specializing in radiation and thyroid cancer. She was a senior investigator in the radiation epidemiology branch at the National Cancer Institute. Ron was an advocate for women in science.

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Cancer risks attributable to low doses of ionizing radiation: Assessing what we really know (2003) (1653)
Solid Cancer Incidence in Atomic Bomb Survivors: 1958–1998 (2007) (1603)
Thyroid cancer after exposure to external radiation: a pooled analysis of seven studies. (1995) (1158)
Tumors of the brain and nervous system after radiotherapy in childhood. (1988) (853)
Cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors. Part II: Solid tumors, 1958-1987. (1994) (805)
Cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors. Part III. Leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma, 1950-1987. (1994) (782)
Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer – collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease (2002) (781)
Rising Thyroid Cancer Incidence in the United States by Demographic and Tumor Characteristics, 1980-2005 (2009) (760)
Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies (2012) (745)
Second malignancies in prostate carcinoma patients after radiotherapy compared with surgery (2000) (612)
New malignancies among cancer survivors: SEER Cancer Registries, 1973-2000. (2006) (544)
Proportion of second cancers attributable to radiotherapy treatment in adults: a cohort study in the US SEER cancer registries. (2011) (385)
CANCER RISKS FROM MEDICAL RADIATION (2003) (366)
A population-based case-control study of thyroid cancer. (1987) (350)
Cancer Mortality Following Treatment for Adult Hyperthyroidism (1998) (332)
A pooled analysis of case–control studies of thyroid cancer: cigarette smoking and consumption of alcohol, coffee, and tea (2003) (296)
Cancer incidence in a cohort of infertile women. (1987) (293)
Cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors. Part IV: Comparison of cancer incidence and mortality. (1994) (289)
Thyroid neoplasia following low-dose radiation in childhood. (1989) (285)
Tumors of the nervous system and pituitary gland associated with atomic bomb radiation exposure. (2002) (280)
Cancer risks among radiologists and radiologic technologists: review of epidemiologic studies. (2004) (263)
Dose-response relationships for radiation-induced thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules: evidence for the prolonged effects of radiation on the thyroid. (1993) (253)
Thyroid cancer: a lethal endocrine neoplasm. (1991) (247)
Acromegaly and gastrointestinal cancer (1991) (245)
A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the chornobyl accident: thyroid cancer in Ukraine detected during first screening. (2006) (245)
Cancer consequences of the Chernobyl accident: 20 years on (2006) (244)
Dose Reconstruction for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Radiation Exposures: Use in Epidemiological Studies (2006) (218)
Exposing the thyroid to radiation: a review of its current extent, risks, and implications. (2010) (198)
Body mass index and all-cause mortality in a nationwide US cohort (2006) (197)
I-131 Dose Response for Incident Thyroid Cancers in Ukraine Related to the Chornobyl Accident (2011) (196)
Thyroid cancer after exposure to external radiation: a pooled analysis of seven studies. 1995. (2012) (193)
Second solid cancers after radiotherapy for breast cancer in SEER cancer registries (2009) (188)
Thyroid cancer risk in Belarus among children and adolescents exposed to radioiodine after the Chornobyl accident (2010) (181)
Nonradiation risk factors for thyroid cancer in the US Radiologic Technologists Study. (2010) (174)
A pooled analysis of case-control studies of thyroid cancer ¶II. Menstrual and reproductive factors (1999) (173)
A pooled analysis of case–control studies of thyroid cancer. IV. Benign thyroid diseases (1999) (173)
Cancer incidence in the U.S. radiologic technologists health study, 1983–1998 (2003) (171)
Acromegaly and cancer risk: a cohort study in Sweden and Denmark (2002) (168)
Cancer Mortality Risk among Workers at the Mayak Nuclear Complex (2003) (160)
Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives: further results (1996) (158)
Ionizing radiation and cancer risk: evidence from epidemiology (2002) (158)
Radiation-induced skin carcinomas of the head and neck. (1991) (158)
Oral calcium suppresses increased rectal epithelial proliferation of persons at risk of colorectal cancer. (1989) (146)
Excess lifetime cancer mortality risk attributable to radiation exposure from computed tomography examinations in children. (2007) (143)
A pooled analysis of thyroid cancer studies. V. Anthropometric factors (2000) (142)
Protracted Radiation Exposure and Cancer Mortality in the Techa River Cohort (2005) (138)
Mortality after radiotherapy for ringworm of the scalp. (1988) (137)
Cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors. Part I: Use of the tumor registries in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for incidence studies. (1994) (137)
Ionizing radiation and cancer risk: evidence from epidemiology. (1998) (135)
Influence of death certificate errors on cancer mortality trends. (1993) (132)
Cancer incidence in the US radiologic technologists health study, 1983-1998. (2002) (131)
Cancer mortality following treatment for adult hyperthyroidism. Cooperative Thyrotoxicosis Therapy Follow-up Study Group. (1998) (129)
Skin tumor risk among atomic-bomb survivors in Japan (1998) (129)
A pooled analysis of case-control studies of thyroid cancer¶ III. Oral contraceptives, menopausal replacement therapy and other female hormones (1999) (122)
The mortality risk of smoking and obesity combined. (2006) (121)
Lung, liver and bone cancer mortality in Mayak workers (2008) (121)
A pooled analysis of case–control studies of thyroid cancer. VII. Cruciferous and other vegetables (International) (2002) (118)
Thyroid cancer and multiple primary tumors in the SEER cancer registries 1 (2005) (117)
Cancer and other causes of mortality among radiologic technologists in the United States (2003) (117)
Thyroid cancer following scalp irradiation. (1977) (110)
Benign and malignant thyroid neoplasms after childhood irradiation for tinea capitis. (1980) (106)
The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: III. Radiation Risks (2008) (106)
Risk of subsequent cancer following breast cancer in men. (2002) (105)
Thyroid cancer incidence patterns in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the U.S. SEER program, 1997-2008. (2013) (104)
Iodine supplementation in Sweden and regional trends in thyroid cancer incidence by histopathologic type (1996) (104)
Thyroid cancer incidence among people living in areas contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl accident. (2007) (104)
Proliferative activity of human thyroid cells in various age groups and its correlation with the risk of thyroid cancer after radiation exposure. (2006) (103)
Multiple primary breast and thyroid cancer. (1984) (102)
Thyroid cancer incidence (1992) (102)
The Chernobyl disaster: cancer following the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (2005) (100)
A Pooled Analysis of Thyroid Cancer Incidence Following Radiotherapy for Childhood Cancer (2012) (95)
Diabetes and thyroid cancer risk in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study. (2011) (94)
Early life exposure to diagnostic radiation and ultrasound scans and risk of childhood cancer: case-control study (2011) (93)
Prospective study of body mass index, physical activity and thyroid cancer (2010) (93)
Dose-response relationships for radiation-induced hyperparathyroidism. (1995) (89)
Breast cancer incidence in U.S. radiologic technologists (2006) (86)
A Pooled Analysis of Case–Control Studies of Thyroid Cancer. VI. Fish and Shellfish Consumption (2001) (85)
Nonmelanoma skin cancer in relation to ionizing radiation exposure among U.S. radiologic technologists (2005) (83)
Mental function following scalp irradiation during childhood. (1982) (83)
Gastrointestinal tumors in acromegalic patients. (1985) (80)
DOSE RESPONSE AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF RADIATION-ASSOCIATED SOLID CANCER RISKS (2003) (79)
Salivary gland tumors after childhood radiation treatment for benign conditions of the head and neck: dose-response relationships. (1998) (76)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN DEATH CERTIFICATE AND AUTOPSY DIAGNOSES AMONG ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS (1994) (75)
Male breast cancer incidence among atomic bomb survivors. (2005) (73)
A screening study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases among individuals exposed in utero to iodine-131 from Chernobyl fallout. (2009) (73)
Cosmic Radiation Exposure and Cancer Risk Among Flight Crew (2004) (72)
Lung Cancer in Mayak Workers (2004) (71)
Combined oral contraceptives and liver cancer (1989) (71)
Randomized trial of financial incentives and delivery methods for improving response to a mailed questionnaire. (2003) (68)
A cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: dose-response analysis of thyroid follicular adenomas detected during first screening in Ukraine (1998-2000). (2007) (67)
Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of first primary tumors of the central nervous system and related organs among atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1958–1995 (2004) (63)
Thyroid cancer pooled analysis from 14 case–control studies: what have we learned? (2003) (63)
A pooled analysis of case-control studies of thyroid cancer¶ I. Methods (1999) (63)
Leukemia incidence among people exposed to chronic radiation from the contaminated Techa River, 1953–2005 (2010) (61)
Coffee and methylxanthines and breast cancer: a case-control study. (1985) (61)
Incidence of haematopoietic malignancies in US radiologic technologists (2005) (60)
Thyroid cancer rates and 131I doses from Nevada atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. (1998) (60)
Post-Chornobyl Thyroid Cancers in Ukraine. Report 2: Risk Analysis (2006) (59)
Invasive squamous‐cell cervical carcinoma and combined oral contraceptives: Results from a multinational study (1993) (57)
Non-malignant Thyroid Diseases after a Wide Range of Radiation Exposures (2010) (57)
Cancer incidence in a cohort of infertile women. (1987) (54)
Colorectal cancer in patients with ulcerative colitis. A population study in central Israel. (1988) (54)
Breast cancer mortality among female radiologic technologists in the United States. (2002) (53)
Founder BRCA1/2 mutations among male patients with breast cancer in Israel. (1999) (52)
Histologic types of breast carcinoma in relation to international variation and breast cancer risk factors (1989) (51)
Cancer patterns in the Middle East--special report from the Middle East Cancer Society. (1997) (51)
Hormonal and reproductive factors and risk of postmenopausal thyroid cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. (2011) (48)
Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer. (1991) (48)
Thyroid Nodules, Polymorphic Variants in DNA Repair and RET-Related Genes, and Interaction with Ionizing Radiation Exposure from Nuclear Tests in Kazakhstan (2009) (47)
Increased frequency of chromosome translocations in airline pilots with long-term flying experience (2008) (47)
Autoimmune thyroiditis and exposure to iodine 131 in the Ukrainian cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident: results from the first screening cycle (1998-2000). (2006) (47)
Subclinical Hypothyroidism after Radioiodine Exposure: Ukrainian–American Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases after the Chornobyl Accident (1998–2000) (2008) (46)
Risk factors for medullary thyroid carcinoma: a pooled analysis (2002) (44)
Thyroid Cancer Following Scalp Irradiation: A Reanalysis Accounting for Uncertainty in Dosimetry (2001) (43)
Acoustic neuromas following childhood radiation treatment for benign conditions of the head and neck. (2008) (43)
Common genetic variants related to genomic integrity and risk of papillary thyroid cancer. (2011) (42)
Thyroid cancer and employment as a radiologic technologist (2006) (42)
The Techa River Cohort: Study Design and Follow-up Methods (2005) (41)
Comparison of Second Cancer Risks from Brachytherapy and External Beam Therapy After Uterine Corpus Cancer (2010) (40)
A case-control study of caffeine and methylxanthines in benign breast disease. (1985) (40)
The Ukrainian-American Study of Leukemia and Related Disorders among Chornobyl Cleanup Workers from Ukraine: I. Study Methods (2008) (40)
CT scans in young people in Northern England: trends and patterns 1993–2002 (2011) (40)
Head and neck radiation carcinogenesis: epidemiologic evidence. (1996) (39)
Risk of radiation‐related salivary gland carcinomas among survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma (2008) (39)
A community-based program of colorectal screening in an asymptomatic population: evaluation of screening tests and compliance. (1986) (37)
Nutritional factors associated with benign breast disease etiology: a case-control study. (1989) (37)
Breast cancer incidence following low-dose rate environmental exposure: Techa River Cohort, 1956–2004 (2008) (36)
Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid among atomic bomb survivors (2010) (36)
Change in the extent of colonic involvement in ulcerative colitis: a colonoscopic study. (1987) (36)
A Reanalysis of Thyroid Neoplasms in the Israeli Tinea Capitis Study Accounting for Dose Uncertainties (2004) (35)
Multiple neoplasms in an irradiated cohort: pattern of occurrence and relationship to thyroid cancer outcome. (2002) (34)
Radiation risks from pediatric computed tomography scanning. (2009) (34)
Diagnostic X-ray examinations and increased chromosome translocations: evidence from three studies (2010) (33)
Thyroid Abnormalities Associated with Protracted Childhood Exposure to 131I from Atmospheric Emissions from the Mayak Weapons Facility in Russia (2006) (33)
Selected micronutrient intake and thyroid carcinoma risk (1997) (32)
Histologic characteristics of skin cancer in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Background incidence and radiation effects (2005) (32)
Cancer Mortality Following In Utero Exposure Among Offspring of Female Mayak Worker Cohort Members (2012) (30)
Association between benign thyroid and endocrine disorders and subsequent risk of thyroid cancer among 4.5 million U.S. male veterans. (2012) (29)
Studies on the extended Techa river cohort: cancer risk estimation (2002) (29)
Let's not relive the past: a review of cancer risk after diagnostic or therapeutic irradiation (2002) (28)
How Much Can We Say about Site-Specific Cancer Radiation Risks? (2010) (28)
Long‐term cerebral effects of small doses of X‐irradiation in childhood as manifested in adult visual evoked responses (1980) (27)
Increased Frequency of Chromosome Translocations Associated with Diagnostic X-Ray Examinations (2008) (27)
Routine diagnostic X-ray examinations and increased frequency of chromosome translocations among U.S. radiologic technologists. (2008) (27)
Behavior of small thyroid cancers found by screening radiation-exposed individuals. (2001) (25)
Normal Organ Radiation Dosimetry and Associated Uncertainties in Nuclear Medicine, with Emphasis on Iodine-131 (2006) (25)
Thyroid Cancer Rates and 131I Doses from Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests: An Update (2010) (24)
The utilization of pediatric computed tomography in a large Israeli Health Maintenance Organization (2006) (24)
Studies on the Mayak nuclear workers: health effects (2002) (23)
Socio-economic variation in CT scanning in Northern England, 1990-2002 (2012) (23)
Long-lasting cerebral functional changes following moderate dose x-radiation treatment to the scalp in childhood: an electroencephalographic power spectral study. (1982) (22)
Common genetic variants in sex hormone pathway genes and papillary thyroid cancer risk. (2012) (22)
Benign thyroid tumors: general risk factors and their effects on radiation risk estimation. (1996) (20)
Mortality following radiation treatment for infertility of hormonal origin or amenorrhoea. (1994) (20)
A cost analysis of screening methodology for family members of colorectal cancer patients. (1989) (19)
Mortality among Catholic nuns certified as radiologic technologists. (2000) (19)
Histopathologic reproducibility of thyroid disease in an epidemiologic study (1986) (19)
Prevalence of Hyperthyroidism after Exposure during Childhood or Adolescence to Radioiodines from the Chornobyl Nuclear Accident: Dose–Response Results from the Ukrainian-American Cohort Study (2010) (18)
Similar prevalence of founder BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations among Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi men with breast cancer: evidence from 261 cases in Israel, 1976-1999. (2008) (18)
Re: "Evidence for a crossover in breast cancer risk factors". (1984) (17)
Prostate radiotherapy is associated with second cancers in many organs, not just the colorectum. (2005) (16)
Lung cancer risk among US radiologic technologists, 1983–1998 (2006) (16)
Dosimetry for Epidemiological Studies: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future (2006) (15)
Childhood cancer--treatment at a cost. (2006) (15)
Dietary habits and colorectal cancer incidence in a second-defined kibbutz population. (1987) (15)
Epidemiology of Colorectal Cancer and Its Relevance to Screening (1986) (15)
Studies on the Ozyorsk population: health effects (2002) (14)
Primary malignant neoplasms associated with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. (1987) (14)
Low Dose Radiation Epidemiology: What Can It Tell Us? (2009) (14)
Cancer risk following radiotherapy for infertility or menstrual disorders (1999) (13)
Invasive colorectal adenomas: Surgery versus colonoscopic polypectomy (1990) (13)
Screening for Colorectal Tumors: A Progress Report of the Tel-Aviv Program1 (1986) (13)
Consumption of methylxanthine-containing beverages and the risk of breast cancer. (1990) (13)
Uses of Dosimetry in Radiation Epidemiology (2006) (13)
Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiologic Divide (2010) (12)
Prostate radiotherapy is associated with second cancers in many organs, not just the colorectum [6] (multiple letters) (2005) (11)
Screening for colorectal neoplasia: a multicenter study in Israel. (1992) (11)
The accuracy of siblings' family history reports of thyroid and other cancers. (1995) (9)
More about cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors: solid tumors, 1958-1987. (1995) (9)
Feasibility of Assessing the Carcinogenicity of Neutrons among Neutron Therapy Patients (2002) (7)
In vitro radiosensitivity of fibroblasts from thyroid and skin cancer patients treated with X-rays for tinea capitis. (1994) (7)
Screening for early detection of radiation-associated thyroid cancer: a pilot study. (1984) (7)
Late health effects of ionizing radiation: bridging the experimental and epidemiological divide (2010) (6)
Familial concordance of thyroid and other head and neck tumors in an irradiated cohort: analysis of contributing factors. (2004) (6)
Weighing shadows: can meta-analysis help define the risk-benefit ratio of RAI treatment for low-risk thyroid cancer patients? (2009) (5)
Radiogenic Risk of Malignant Neoplasms for Techa Riverside Residents (2008) (5)
Risk of Radiation-related Second Salivary Gland Carcinomas among Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors: A Population-based Analysis (2008) (4)
Incidence of benign gastrointestinal tumors among atomic bomb survivors. (1995) (4)
A Review of Infertility and Its Treatment in the Etiology of Female Reproductive and Other Cancers (1995) (4)
Radiation and Thyroid Cancer: Lessons from a Half Century of Study (2002) (4)
Long-term effects of small doses of X-radiation applied in childhood, as manifested in adult visually evoked responses. (1979) (3)
Reply to Comments on “Protracted Radiation Exposure and Cancer Mortality in the Techa River Cohort” by Krestinina et al (2006) (3)
Letter: Oral contraception and sex ratio. (1974) (3)
Colonoscopy without prior preparation in mild to moderate active ulcerative colitis. (1991) (2)
Modeling the Probability That Ashkenazi Jewish Women Carry a Founder Mutation in BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 (1999) (2)
Studies on Relatives of Sporadic Colorectal Cancer Patients (1990) (1)
Solid Cancer Incidence among Atomic Bomb Survivors: Preliminary Data from a Second Follow-Up (2005) (1)
Thyroid cancer following scalp irradiation. [X radiation] (1977) (1)
Head and Neck Radiation Carcinogenesis: Epidemiologic Evidence (1996) (1)
Moving from under the lamppost: can epidemiologists and radiobiologists work together? * (1998) (1)
Radiation and Thyroid Cancer (1997) (1)
P1-491 Socio-economic variation in the use of ct scans in young people in the North of England, 1990–2002 (2011) (0)
he Mortality Risk of Smoking and besity Combined (0)
Effect modification of ionizing radiation and thyroid nodule risk by XRCC1 and RAD18 polymorphisms among populations exposed to nuclear fallout near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (2005) (0)
flying experience translocations in airline pilots with long-term Increased frequency of chromosome (2009) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Spatial learning deficits inmice with a targeted glucocorticoid receptor gene disruption (2017) (0)
Hermes - May 2004 (2004) (0)
Cancer incidence among Japanese atomic-bomb survivors (1997) (0)
Abstract LB-390: Thyroid cancer incidence trends by gender and histology in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1997-2005 (2010) (0)
Response to the letter of Sheldon Wolff (Radiat. Res. 141, 230-231, 1995) (1995) (0)
Long-lasting cerebral functional changes following moderate dosex-radiation treatment tothescalp in childhood: anelectroencephalo (1982) (0)
Abstract A90: Anthropometry, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and the risk of thyroid cancer in the U.S. Radiologic Technologists Study (2008) (0)
Cancer incidence among women treated with radiotherapy for infertility (1999) (0)
Endocrine cancers and second primary tumors (2004) (0)
FIB-1/RERF/NCI Collaborative Work on Cancer Risk among the Mayak Nuclear Worker Cohort : (2001) (0)
Nutritional factors in malignant and benign breast disease aetiology (1991) (0)
Remembrance: Gilbert Wheeler Beebe, 1912–2003 (2003) (0)
Oralcalcium suppressesincreased rectal epithelial proliferation ofpersonsatrisk ofcolorectal cancer (1989) (0)
Thyroid nodules and polymorphic variants in the RET proto-oncogene, GFRA1 and DNA repair-related genes among Kazakh and Russian populations exposed as children to nuclear fallout near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (2004) (0)
Lung Cancer Incidence Among U.S. Radiologic Technologists, 1983–1998 (2006) (0)
COMMENT ON: THYROID CANCER RATES AND 131I DOSES FROM NEVADA ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
Body mass index and all-cause mortality in a nationwide cohort of U.S. women and men (2004) (0)
Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests (1998) (0)
Caffeine and Benign Breast Disease-Reply (1985) (0)
Protraction effects in radiation studies: epidemiology. (2000) (0)
CARCINOGENIC effects of radiation. (1957) (0)
Oral contraception and sex ratio. (Letter) (1974) (0)
Thyroid cancer after scalp irradiation: a reanalysis accounting for uncertainty in dosimetry. (2000) (0)

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