AMBER Consortium


AMBER ConsortiumAMBER (African American Breast Cancer Epidemiology and Risk) is a collaboration of four studies: the Women’s Circle of Health Study, the Black Women’s Health Study, the Carolina Breast Cancer Study, and the Multiethnic Cohort Study funded by the National Cancer Institute.  The goal of this consortium is to study the impact of genetic and lifestyle factors on the risk of breast cancer subtypes in African American women.

For more information click in the link below:

http://www.theamberproject.org/
 

Selected Publications

  1. Rosenberg L, Bethea TN, Vicidi E, Hong CC, Troester MA, Bandera EV, Haiman CA,  Kolonel LN, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR.  Postmenopausal female hormone supplement use in relation to estrogen receptor positive and negative in Black women.  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2016; 108(4)  pii: djv361. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv361. Print 2016 Apr.
     
  2. Cheng, TYD, Ambrosone CB, Hong CC, Lunetta KL, Liu S, Hu Q, Yao S, Sucheston-Campbell L, Bandera EV, Ruiz Narvael EA, Haddad S, Troester M, Haiman CA, Bensen JT, Olshan AF, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L.  Genetic variants in the mTOR pathway and breast cancer risk in African American women.  Carcinogenesis 2016; 37(1): 49-55. 
     
  3. Bethea TN, Rosenberg L, Castro-Webb N, Lunetta KL, Sucheston LE, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Charlot M, Park SY, Bandera EV, Troester MA, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR.  Family history of cancer in relation to breast cancer subtypes in African American women.  Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2016 (In Press).
     
  4. Haddad SA, Lunetta KL, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Bensen JT, CC, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Yao S, Bandera EV, Rosenberg L, Haiman CA, Troester MA, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR. Hormone-Related Pathways and Risk of Breast Cancer Subtypes in African American Women. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2015; 154(1):145-54.
     
  5. Ambrosone CB, Zirpoli G, Hong CC, Yao S, Troester MA, Bandera EV, Schedin P, Bethea TN, Borges V, Park SY, Chandra D, Rosenberg L, Kolonel LN, Olshan AF, Palmer JR. Important role of menarche in development of estrogen receptor negative breast cancer in African American women.  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2015 Jun 17;107(9). pii: djv172. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djv172. Print 2015 Sep.
     
  6. Bandera EV, Chandran U, Hong CC, Troester M, Bethea TN, Adams-Campbell LL, Haiman CA, Park SY, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR, Rosenberg L.  Obesity, body fat distribution and risk of breast cancer subtypes in African American women participating in the AMBER Consortium. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment 2015 Apr;150(3):655-66.
     
  7. Bethea TN, Rosenberg L, Hong CC, Troester MA, Lunetta KL, Bandera EV, Schedin P, Borges V, Kolonel LN, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR.  Oral contraceptive use in relation to breast cancer subtypes in African American women: Results from the AMBER Consortium.  Breast Cancer Research 2015 Feb 21;17:22. doi: 10.1186/s13058-015-0535-x.
     
  8. Palmer JR, Viscidi E, Troester MA, Hong CC, Schedin P, Bethea TN, Bandera EV, Borges V, McKinnon C, Haiman CA, Lunetta K, Kolonel LN, Rosenberg L, Olshan AF, Ambrosone CB.  Parity, lactation, and breast cancer subtypes in African American women: Results from the AMBER Consortium.  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2014 Sep 15;106(10). pii: dju237. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju237. Print 2014 Oct.