Publications by authors named "Valerie Yoder"
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- About one-third of US adults have tattoos, raising concerns about potential long-term health risks, including exposure to carcinogens and immune responses.
- A case-control study comparing 820 individuals with hematologic cancers to 8200 controls found no overall strong link between tattoos and major blood cancers but revealed some associations in younger adults (ages 20-60) for rarer types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and certain myeloid neoplasms.
- While the results were not definitive, they suggest a possible increased risk of specific hematologic cancers tied to tattooing, indicating a need for further research, especially given the high tattoo prevalence in younger adults.
When a cancer case is diagnosed or treated in one US state, but the patient resides in another, the case report abstract is shared with the central cancer registry in the state of residence through interstate data exchange. However, the records shared may not include pathology reports. Cases diagnosed in another state that would be ascertained only from pathology reports may thus be missed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Central cancer registries are responsible for managing appropriate research contacts and record releases. Do not contact (DNC) flags are used by some registries to indicate patients who should not be contacted or included in research. Longitudinal changes in DNC coding practices and definitions may result in a lack of code standardization and inaccurately include or exclude individuals from research.
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