Section outline

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  • Monday, January 25, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture:  Course introduction

    Lecture: History of cancer control and prevention & current concepts of cancer control including the social determinants of cancer and implementation science - SF CAN case study

    Faculty:  Robert A. Hiatt and Catherine Metayer

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Prospectus:

    • 2020 Cancer Epi Course Spring UCSFUCB Syllabus121719 File

    • Session Slides:

    • EPI252Introducton012720 File
    • EPI252HistoryConcepts 012720 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Hiatt RA. et al. The San Francisco Cancer Initiative: a community initiative to reduce the population burden of cancer. Health Affairs 2018;37(1): 54-61 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Guan A. el al. Breast Cancer in San Francisco: Disentangling Disparities at the Neighborhood Level. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 Sep 23 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Hiatt RA, Rimer BK. Principles and Applications of Cancer Prevention and Control Interventions. Chapter 67. Part V. Cancer Prevention and Control. Oxford University Press 2006, pp1283-1291 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, February 1, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Overview of major cacners and causes; methods for collecting cancer descriptive data; cancer surveillance, Accessing cancer registry data

    Hands on excercises

    Faculty:  Scarlett Gomez and Meg Mckinley

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Gomez Cancer Epi Class 02032020b File
    • CR Data and SurvTools McKinley EPI252 final File

    • Required Reading:

    • Han X. et al. Comparison of Insurance Status and Diagnosis Stage Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cancer Before vs After Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. JAMA Oncology 2018 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Kurian AW. et al. Genetic Testing and Results in a Population-Based Cohort of Breast Cancer Patients and Ovarian Cancer Patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Singh GK and Jemal A. Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Mortality, Incidence, and Survival in the United States, 1950–2014: Over Six Decades of Changing Patterns and Widening Inequalities. 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, February 8, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Molecular and cellular basis of cancer

    Faculty:  Thea Tlsty

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • EPI252PH258 90 min 2020 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Weaver VM. et al. Reversion of the Malignant Phenotype of Human Breast Cells in Three-Dimensional Culture and In Vivo by Integrin Blocking Antibodies. 1997 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Bischof AG. et al. Breast cancer normalization induced by embryonic mesenchyme is mediated by extracellular matrix biglycan† 2013 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • StudentsAssignments(Updated Feb 4 2020) File

  • Monday, February 15, 2021 - No Class

  • Monday, February 22, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Genetic susceptibility, epigenetics and cancer

    Faculty:  John Witte

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • 2020 Cancer Epi File

    • Required Reading:

    • Genetic Epidemiology ver 13 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Pan Cancer Manuscript vRevision final[1] File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Integration of polygenic risk scores with modifiable risk factors improves risk prediction: results from a pan-cancer analysis URL
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • PolygenicRiskScore(2019) File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, March 1, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Tobacco, cannabis, and e-cigarettes, documents research

    Faculty:  Stanton Glantz

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Ecigs-Mar2-2020-epi class-updated File

    • Required Reading:

    • Bhatta-ecigs-MI-JAHA+retraction File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • bhatta-ecigs-lung-complete File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Alzahrani-ecig-MI-complete+letters123+erratum File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Rao-Springer-Juul File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Tommasi 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Tang 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Monday, March 8, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Radiation and the environment

    Faculty:  Lydia Zablotska

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Radiation and health UCBerkeley March 9, 2020 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Brambilla Risks of CT imaging review Am J Med 2013 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Miglioretti and Smith-Bindman CT scan doses and risk projections JAMA Pediatr 2013 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, March 15, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Infection

    Faculty:  Lee Riley

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Infectious causes of cancer 2020 File

    • Required Reading:

    • ID Cancer US2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • EntericVirome Cancer File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Monday, March 22, 2021 - No Class


  • Monday, March 29, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Nutrition and physical activity

    Faculty:  Erin Van Blarigan

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • 20200326 EPI 252 File

    • Required Reading:

    • jama parsons 2020 oi 190140 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • lowcarbCRC File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, April 5, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Cancers in children and adolescents

    Faculty:  Catherine Metayer

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Metayer childhoodCancer Ado(2020) File

    • Required Reading:

    • AirDochloromethane2017 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • PrescriptionDrug(2015) File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

  • Monday, April 12, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Cancer survivor studies 

    Faculty:  Patrick Bradshaw

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • Bradshaw PH258 Cancer Survival 041320 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Cardwell 2020 Epidemiology (in press) The risk of cardiovascular disease in prostate.98473 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Analysis of Body Mass Index and Mortality in Patients With Colorectal Cancer Using Causal Diagrams Kroenke CH File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Monday, April 19, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Screening for cancer 

    Lecture: Guideline decision process of the USPSTF 

    Faculty:  Karla Kerlikowski and George Sawaya

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • Session Slides:

    • USPSTF.CancerCourseBerkeley.04222019-converted File
    • Epilect2020f File

    • Required Reading:

    • Sprague BL. et al. Benefits, Harms, and Cost-Effectiveness of Supplemental Ultrasonography Screening for Women With Dense Breasts File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Bakker MF. et al. Supplemental MRI Screening for Women with Extremely Dense Breast Tissue File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Bakker MF. et al. Supplemental MRI Screening for Women with Extremely Dense Breast Tissue appendix File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Monday, April 26, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Student Presentations of Final Project

    Faculty:  Robert A. Hiatt and Catherine Metayer

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL


    • ScheduleFinalPaperPresentationr(Updated 31March 2020) File

    • Dear students,

      The written papers are due on April 27 by the end of the day. Let me know if you believe you cannot meet this deadline due to recent Covid19-related disruptions, and we will work with you to accommodate your needs. The word limit is 1,500. Please send a word copy to both Professor Hiatt and myself.

      The oral presentations are scheduled for the weeks of April 27 and May 11 (note that there is no class on May 4th which is during the reading/review week off at UCB). I circulated a few weeks ago the presentations' schedule for all students. If you want to change your date/time slot, you can reach out to other students and let me know so I can revise the overall schedule . Note that I will not facilitate those exchanges. 

       We will start the first presentation no later than 9:15am, so please make sure you sign in zoom on time for those 2 weeks. Each presentation is 10 minutes max (8 to 10 slides maximum) and 5 mins Q&A. We will not allow for presentations to go over 10 mins and will stop it if needed, so make sure you practice to stay within your allocated time.

      Looking forward to, Catherine & Bob


  • Monday, May 3, 2021- No Class


  • Monday, May 10, 2021; 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Student Presentations of Final Project

    Faculty:  Robert A. Hiatt and Catherine Metayer

    Location (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL