Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology School of Public Health Cancer Institute of New Jersey 195 Little Albany Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1914 Phone: (732) 235-9874 Email: elisa.bandera@umdnj.edu

Research Program Alignment

• Cancer Prevention and Control Program

Membership Type: Full

Selected Publications

Gifkins D, Olson SH, Paddock L, King M, Demissie K, Lu S-E, Kong A-N T, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Bandera EV.  Antioxidants and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer.  BMC Cancer 2012 Jun 1;12(1):211.

Parekh N, Chandran U, Bandera EV.  Obesity in cancer survival.  Annual Reviews of Nutrition 2012; 32:311-42.

Rock CL, Doyle C, Demark-Wahnefried W, Meyerhardt J, Courneya KS, Schwartz AL, Bandera EV, Hamilton KK, Grant B, McCullough M, Byers T, Gansler T.  Nutrition and physical activity guidelines for cancer survivors.  CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2012 Jul;62(4):242-74.

Gifkins D, Olson SH, Demissie K, Lu S-E, Kong A-N T, Bandera EV*.  Total and individual antioxidant intake and endometrial cancer risk: A population-based case-control study in New Jersey.  Cancer Causes and Control 2012;23(6):887-95.

Yao S, Zirpoli G, Bovbjerg DH, Jandorf L, Hong CC, Zhao H, Sucheston LE, Tang L, Roberts M, Ciupak G, Davis W, Hwang H, Johnson CS, Trump DL, McCann SE, Ademuyiwa F, Pawlish KS, Bandera EV, Ambrosone CB.. Variants in the vitamin D pathway, serum levels of vitamin D, and estrogen receptor negative breast cancer among African-American women: a case-control study.  Breast Cancer Research 2012 Apr 5;14(2):R58. [Epub ahead of print]

Kushi LH, Doyle C, McCullough M, Rock CL, Demark-Wahnefried W, Bandera EV, Gapstur S, Patel AV, Andrews K, Gansler T and the American Cancer Society 2010 Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee.  American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention: Reducing the risk of cancer with healthy food choices and physical activity., CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 2012, 62 (1): 30-67.

Chandran U, Hirshfield KM, Bandera EV.  The role of nutritional factors on breast cancer risk in African American women.  Public Health Nutrition 2012 Apr;15(4):738-48

Bandera EV, Chandran U, Buckley B, Lin Y, Isukapalli S, Marshall I, King M, Zarbl H.  Urinary mycoestrogens, body size, and breast development in New Jersey girls.  Science of the Total Environment 2011 Nov 15;409(24):5221-7. Epub 2011 Oct 4.

Bandera EV, King MG, Chandran U, Paddock L, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Olson SH.  Phytoestrogen consumption from food and supplements and ovarian cancer risk.  BMC Women’s Health 2011 Sep 23;11(1):40.

Hinch AG, Tandon A,  Patterson N, Song Y, Rohland N, Palmer NG, Chen, GK, Wang K, Buxbaum SG, Akylbekova M, Aldrich MC, Ambrosone CA, Amos C, Bandera EV, Berndt SI, Bernstein L, Blot WJ, Bock CH, Boerwinkle E, Cai Q, Caporaso N, Casey G, Cupples LA, Deming SL, Diver WR, Divers J, Fornage M, Gillanders EM, Glessner J, Harris CC, Hu JJ, Ingles SA, Isaacs W, John EM , Kao WHL, Keating K, Kittles RA, Kolonel LN, Larkin E, LeMarchand L, McNeill LH, Millikan RC, Murphy A, Musani S, Neslund-Dudas C, Nyante S, Papanicolaou GJ, Press MJ, Psaty BM, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Rotter JI, Rybicki BA, Schwartz AJ, Signorello LB, Spitz M, Strom SS, Thun MJ, Tucker MA, Wang Z, Wiencke JK, Witte JS, Wrensch M, Wu X, Yamamura Y, Zanetti KA, Zheng W, Ziegler RG, Zhu X, Redline S, Hirschhorn JN, Henderson BE, Taylor, Jr. HA, Price AI, Hakonarson H, Chanock SJ , Haiman CA, Wilson JG, Reich D and Myers SR.  The landscape of recombination in African Americans.  Nature. 2011 Jul 20;476(7359):170-5. doi: 10.1038/nature10336.

Chandran U, Bandera EV, Williams-King MG, Paddock L, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Lu S-E, Faulkner S, Pulick K, Olson SH.  Heatlhy Eating Index and ovarian cancer risk.  Cancer Causes and Control 2011; 22(4):563-71.

Chandran U, Bandera EV, Williams-King MG, Bayuga S, Sima C, Pulick K, Wilcox H, Zauber A, Olson SH.  Adherence to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and endometrial cancer risk.  Cancer Causes and Control 2010 Nov;21(11):1895-904. Epub 2010 Jul 23.

Bandera EV, Williams-King MG, Bayuga S, Sima C, Pulick K, Wilcox H, Zauber A, Olson SH.  Coffee and tea consumption and endometrial cancer risk in a population-based study in New Jersey.  Cancer Causes and Control 2010 Sep;21(9):1467-73. Epub 2010 May 14.

Ambrosone CA, Ciupak G, Bandera EV, Jandorf L, Bovbjerg DH, Zirpoli G, Pawlish K, Godbold J, Furberg H, Valdimarsdottir H, Yao S, Hwang H, Davis W, Roberts M, Sucheston L, Demissie K, Amend KL, Tartter P, Reilly J, Pace BW, Rohan T, Sparano J, Raptis G, Castaldi M, Estabrook A, Feldman S, Weltz C.  Conducting molecular epidemiological research in the age of HIPAA:  A multi-institutional case-control study of breast cancer in African-American and European-American women.  Journal of Oncology 2009;2009:871250. Epub 2009 Oct 25. PMCID: PMC2766507

Bandera EV, Williams MG, Sima C, Bayuga S, Pulick K, Wilcox H, Soslow R, Zauber A, Olson SH.  Phytoestrogens and endometrial cancer in a population-based case-control study in New Jersey.  Cancer Causes and Control 2009 Sep;20 (7):1117-27.