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Joellen Martha Schildkraut

Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health
Family Medicine and Community Health, Prevention Research
Box 2715 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27705
6036 Hock Plaza, 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Conferences


Racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer survival: An examination of contributing factors in the Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry consortium.

Conference Int J Cancer · October 15, 2022 Black women diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer have poorer survival compared to white women. Factors that contribute to this disparity, aside from socioeconomic status and guideline-adherent treatment, have not yet been clearly identified. We examine ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pleiotropic MLLT10 variation confers risk of meningioma and estrogen-mediated cancers

Conference Neuro Oncology Advances · January 1, 2022 Background: Risk of tumors of the breast, ovary, and meninges has been associated with hormonal factors and with one another. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified a meningioma risk locus on 10p12 near previous GWAS hits for breast and ovarian ... Full text Cite