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Mara Meyer Epstein, ScD

Research Focus - Cancer Epidemiology

  • Use of databases derived from electronic health records and health claims for population-based cancer research
  • Determination of trends in cancer screening practices
  • Study of inflammation, immune function, and cancer risk
  • Nutritional epidemiology of cancer

Representative Publication        

Epstein MM, Divine G, Chao CR, et al. Statin use and risk of multiple myeloma: An analysis from the cancer research network. Int J Cancer. 2017;141(3):480-487.

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  • All of Us Research Program provides growing source for population health research

    All of Us Research Program provides growing source for population health research

    As the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, a large, diverse database, enters its second five years of funding at UMass Chan, investigators are pursuing more studies in population health with a focus on including groups traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research.  

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  • Faculty shine at Educational Recognition Awards ceremony, Last Lecture

    Faculty shine at Educational Recognition Awards ceremony, Last Lecture

    Faculty members from the three UMass Chan graduate schools were honored at the 2024 Educational Recognition Awards ceremony and Susan Zweizig, MD, delivered the annual honorary Last Lecture, titled “What You Don’t See.”

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  • UMass Chan researchers explore parents’ attitudes toward pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

    UMass Chan researchers explore parents’ attitudes toward pediatric COVID-19 vaccines

    Parents who are vaccinated against COVID-19 are most likely to vaccinate their children, according to an analysis by researchers at UMass Chan Medical School.

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  • Breast and prostate cancer screenings dropped during COVID-19 pandemic, UMMS study finds

    Breast and prostate cancer screenings dropped during COVID-19 pandemic, UMMS study finds

    Breast and prostate cancer screenings declined rapidly in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the same period a year earlier, according to a new study by UMass Medical School researchers working with Reliant Medical Group.

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