Registry News & Reports

Share |

Annual Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report
Marin County Breast Cancer Information
Recent Publications in the Scientific Literature
Reports on Special Topics

Annual Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report
This annual report presents information on all new cancer cases and deaths occurring in the Greater Bay Area from 1988 to the latest year for which information is available. For more information, please visit our Annual Report webpage.

Marin County Breast Cancer Information
The Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry closely monitors breast cancer rates in Marin County and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area, where elevated rates have raised public concern. However, incidence rates for invasive breast cancer declined sharply for the years 2003 and 2004 both in the Bay Area and nationally. Work is ongoing to see if these declines are temporary and if they relate to the stoppage of hormone replacement therapy by many women after the July 2002 announcement by the Women's Health Initiative that estrogen/progestin hormone therapy increases the risk of developing breast cancer and heart disease. We are collaborating with the Marin County Health Department and their Marin Women's Study to better characterize patterns in hormone therapy use and breast cancer occurrence for Marin CountyCounty north of San Francisco since rates peaked in 1999.

Please see the Annual Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report for the latest statistics on the rates of in situ and invasive breast cancer for Marin and other counties in the Bay Area. Scientific articles that may be of interest are listed below.

When possible, links to the full text or abstract are provided; some publications require a subscription or fee to access more than the abstract online.

Ereman R, Prebil LA, Mockus M, Koblick K, Orenstein F, Benz C, Clarke CA. Recent trends in hormone therapy utilization and breast cancer incidence rates in the high incidence population of Marin County, California. BMC Public Health 2010; 10(1):228.

Robbins AS, Clarke CA. A decline in breast-cancer incidence. N Engl J Med 2007 Aug 2;357(5):511-2; author reply 513.

Clarke CA, Glaser SL. Declines in breast cancer after the WHI: apparent impact of hormone therapy. Cancer Causes Control 2007 Oct;18(8):847-52. Epub 2007 Jul 6.

Robbins AS, Clarke CA. Regional changes in hormone therapy use and breast cancer incidence in California from 2001 to 2004. J Clin Oncol 2007 Aug 10;25(23):3437-9. Epub 2007 Jun 25.

Clarke CA, Glaser SL, Uratsu CS, Selby JV, Kushi LH, Herrinton LJ. Recent declines in hormone therapy utilization and breast cancer incidence: clinical and population-based evidence. J Clin Oncol 2006 Nov 20;49-50.

Clarke CA, Purdie DM, Glaser SL. Population attributable risk of breast cancer in white women associated with immediately modifiable risk factors. BMC Cancer 2006 Jun 27;6:170.

Update on breast cancer incidence patterns in Marin County and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Northern California Cancer Center, September 2004.

Clarke C, Glaser S, West D, et al. Breast cancer incidence and mortality trends in an affluent population: Marin County, California, USA, 1990-1999. Breast Cancer Res 2002; 4:R13.

Prehn A, Clarke C, Topol B, Glaser S, West D. Increase in breast cancer incidence in middle aged women during the 1990s. Ann Epidemiol 2002; 12:476-81.

Prehn AW, West DW. Evaluating local differences in breast cancer incidence rates: a census based methodology (United States). Cancer Causes Control 1998; 9:511-7.

Selected Recent Publications in the Scientific Literature
When possible, links to the full text or abstract are provided; some publications require a subscription or fee to access more than the abstract online.

Clarke CA, Chang ET, Miller TM, Cockburn M, Gomez SL. Racial and social class gradients in life expectancy in contemporary California. Soc Sci med 2010; 70(9): 1373-1380.

Gomez SL, Clarke CA, Shema S, Chang ET, Keegan THM, Glaser SL. Disparities in breast cancer survival among Asian women by ethnicity and immigrant status: a population-based study. Am J Public Health 2010; 100(5):861-869.

Gomez SL, Quach T, Horn-Ross PL, Pham JT, Cockburn M, Chang ET, Keegan THM, Clarke CA. Hidden breast cancer disparities in Asian Women: disaggreagating incidence rates by ethnicity and migrant status. Am J Public Health 2010; 100(S1):S125-S131.

John EM, Koo J, Horn-Ross PL. Lifetime physical activity and risk of endometrial cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19(5):1276-1283.

Keegan TH, Milne RL, Andrulis IL, Chang ET, Sangaramoorthy M, Phillips KA, Giles GG, Goodwin PJ, Apicella C, Hopper JL, Whittemore AS, John EM. Past recreational physical activity, body size, and all-cause mortality following breast cancer diagnosis: results from the Breast Cancer Familly Registry. Epublished ahead of print. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2010.

Keegan THM, John EM, Fish K, Alfaro-Velcamp T, Clarke CA, Gomez SL. Breast cancer incidence patterns among California Hispanic women: Differences by nativity and residence in an enclave. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010; 19(5):1208-1218.

McLaughlin RH, Clarke CA, Crawley L, Glaser SL. Are cancer registries unconstitutional? Soc Science & Medicine 2010; 70(9):1295-1300.

Warner ET, Gomez SL. Impact of neighborhood racial composition and metropolitan residential segregation on disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival between black and white women in California. Epublished ahead of print. J Community Health 2010.

Chang ET, Birmann BM, Kasperzyk JL, Conti DV, Kraft P, Ambinder RF, Zheng T, Mueller NE. Polymorphic variation in NFKB1 and other aspirin-related genes and risk of Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18(3):976-986.

Chang ET, Milne RL, Phillips K, Figueiredo JC, Sangaramoorthy M, Keegan THM, Andrulis IL, Hopper JL, Goodwin PJ, O'Malley FP, Weerasooriya N, Apicella C, Southey MC, Friedlander ML, Giles GG, Whittemore AS, West DW, John EM. Family history of breast cancer and all-cause mortality after breast cancer diagnosis in the Breast Cancer Family Registry. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2009; 117(1):167-176.

Chang ET, Shema SJ, Wakelee HA, Clarke CA, Gomez SL. Uncovering disparities in survival after non-small-cell lung cancer among Asian/Pacific Islander ethnic populations in California. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18(8):2248-2255.

Cheng I, John EM, Witte JS, Cockburn MG, Clarke CA. Socioeconomic status and prostate cancer incidence and mortality among the diverse population of California. Cancer Causes Control 2009; 20(8):1317-1325.

Hausauer AK, Keegan TM, Chang ET, Glaser SL, Howe HH, Clarke CA. Recent trends in breast cancer incidence in US white women by county-level rural/urban and poverty status. BMC Medicine 2009; 7(1):31.

Keegan TH, Clarke CA, Chang ET, Shema SJ, Glaser SL. Disparities in survival after Hodgkin lymphoma: a population-based study. Epublished ahead of print. Cancer Causes Control 2009.

Keegan TH, McClure LA, Foran JM, Clarke CA. Improvements in survival after follicular lymphoma by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status: a population-based study. J Clin Oncology 2009; 27(18):3044-3051.

Kurian AW, McClure LA, John EM, Horn-Ross PL, Ford JM, Clarke CA. Second primary breast cancer occurrence according to hormone receptor status: a population based study. J Natl Cancer Inst 2009; 101(15):1058-1065.

Linos E, Swetter SM, Cockburn MG, Colditz GA, Clarke CA. Increasing burden of melanoma in the United States. J Invest Derm 2009; 129(7):1666-1674.

McClure LA, Glaser SL, Shema SJ, Allen L, Quesenberry C, John EM, Gomez SL. Availability and accuracy of medical record information on language usage of cancer patients from a multi-ethnic population. Epublished ahead of print. J Immigrant Minority Health 2009.

Pham JT, Allen L, Gomez SL. Why do Asian-American women have lower rates of breast conserving surgery: results of a survey regarding physician perceptions. BMC Public Health 2009; 9(1):246.

Reynolds P, Goldberg D, Hurley S, Nelson DO, Largent J, Henderson KD, Bernstein L. Passive smoking and risk of breast cancer in the California Teachers Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18(2):3389-3398.

West DW, Clarke CA. Rapidly increasing trends of melanoma in nonwhite populations: new data from New Zealand. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18(6):1674-1675.