Curriculum Vitae LORAINE D. MARRETT, Ph.D.

April 2014

Curriculum Vitae

LORAINE D. MARRETT, Ph.D. Senior Scientist

Prevention and Cancer Control

Cancer Care Ontario

505 University Avenue, 14th Floor

Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X3

Tel: (416) 217-1381 Fax: 416-971-6888

Current Appointments:

2004 - Senior Scientist, Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto,

Ontario

2004 - Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences (now the Dalla Lana School of Public

Health), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

Previous Appointments:

2012 - 2013 Director, Prevention and Surveillance, Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care

Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

2004 - 2012 Director, Surveillance Unit, Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care


2009 - 2010 Associate Director, Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto,

Ontario

1994 - 2004 Scientist, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario

1994 - 1998 Director, Cervical Screening Unit, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care


1993 - 1994 Director, Descriptive Epidemiology Unit, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics,

Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario

1987 - 1993 Director, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation Epidemiology Research

Unit, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto,

Toronto, Ontario

1982 - 1994 Senior Epidemiologist, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario Cancer

Treatment and Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario

1990 - 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences (now the Dalla

Lana School of Public Health), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

1982 - 1990 Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of

Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

1983 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster

University, Hamilton, Ontario

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1975 - 1982 Research Associate, Connecticut Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of

Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven,

Connecticut

1975 - 1975 Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University

of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

1972 - 1975 Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa,

Ottawa, Ontario

Education:

1983 International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France,

Short Course on Statistical Methods in Cancer Epidemiology

(June 27-July 1, 1983)

1973 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA,

Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology

1973 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland,

Ph.D. (in Mathematical statistics)

1969 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,

B.Math. (honours, with statistics major)

Major Consulting:

1998 - 2002 Temporary Advisor to the Non-Communicable Diseases Program, Pan American Health

Organization, Washington, DC, regarding “Information systems for cervical cancer

screening programs in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

2001 Consultant and Workshop Facilitator for the Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative, Adult

Health Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, regarding the “Workshop on Primary

Prevention of Breast Cancer” held in Quebec City, Quebec.

1977 - 1982 Consultant to the Upjohn Company, Fine Chemicals Division, New Haven, Connecticut,

on their employee recall and follow-up programs

Honours and Awards:

1983 - 1988 National Health Research Scholar Award (Health Canada)

1969 - 1972 Commonwealth Graduate Scholarship

2007 Canadian Dermatology Association (CDA) Award of Honour (for a non-physician who

has made an outstanding contribution to dermatology)

2013 Canadian Society for Epidemiology & Biostatistics Distinguished Service Award

Research Awards as Principal Investigator:

2012-2015 Canadian Institute of Health Research – Institute of Aboriginal

Peoples’ Health (CIHR-IAPH) ($105,000)

Doctoral Research Award (To support PhD student: Diana Withrow)

Cancer survival of First Nations and Metis adults in Canada: follow-up of the 1991

census cohort

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2012-2014 Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) ($214,753)

Cancer incidence and survival in First Nations and Metis adults in Canada: follow-up of

the 1991 census cohort

Co-Investigators: Diana Withrow, Donna Turner, Jason Pole, Michael Tjepkema, Alethea

Kewayosh, Sarah McGregor, Eduardo Vides

2011-2013 Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) ($28,825)

Health risks among nuclear workers in Ontario who have been exposed to internal sources

of ionizing radiation: a feasibility study

Co-PI: Minh Do Co-Investigators: John McLaughlin, Elizabeth Cardis

2009-2012 Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) ($750,000)

Colorectal Cancer Network (CRCNet)

Co-Investigator: Beth Theis

2006-2009 National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) ($681,797)

The second national sun survey: a tool for planning, implementing and evaluating sun

safety strategies

Co-Investigators: Cheryl Rosen, Marc Rhainds, Joel Claveau, David Northrup

2005-2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) ($182,793)


Radiation exposure and risk of cancer among Ontario uranium miners: a case-cohort

study

Co-Investigator: John McLaughlin and Jennifer Payne

2005-2011 National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Solar Exposure and Melanoma Survival (Multi-centre grant)

(Ontario Grant: US$57,724)

Overall Principal Investigator: Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico

2004-2005 Public Health Agency of Canada ($18,000)

Monograph on Cancer in Young Adults (CYAC).

2003 Canadian Institute of Health Research – Institute of Aboriginal

Peoples’ Health (CIHR-IAPH) and Institute of Cancer Research (CIHR-ICR),

National Cancer Institute of Canada ($50,000)

Building consensus for development of a First Nations cancer research

strategy and a Canada-wide First Nations cancer surveillance system

workshop September 23-24, 2003 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2003 - 2006 Programme of Environmental Etiology of Cancer (PREECAN)

Training Award (To support PhD. student Minh Do)

Occupational cancer etiology in Ontario ($50,400)

Co-trainer: Dr. Jennifer Payne, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care Ontario

2002 – 2004 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Workplace Safety and

Insurance Board (WSIB)

Paternal exposure to ionizing radiation in Ontario uranium miners and risk of

congenital anomaly in offspring: A record linkage case-control study ($105,680)

Co-investigators: Dr. John McLaughlin, Division of Epidemiology & Statistics,

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital; Dr. Douglas Chambers,

SENES Consultants Limited

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2002 – 2003 Programme of Research in Environmental Etiology of Cancer (PREECAN)

Training Award (To support MSc student Sharon Relova)

Sun exposure recall: Use of confidence ratings. ($12,000)

Co-trainer: Dr. John McLaughlin, Division of Epidemiology & Statistics, Samuel

Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital

2002 Health Canada

Workshop to prepare a monograph for young adults in Canada, phase II ($29,500)

2002 – 2004 Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) [Canadian Population Health

Initiative]

Comparison of cancer patterns and trends in First Nations people and the general

population of Ontario, 1968-1999/2000 ($149,969)

Co-investigators: Dr. Terry Sullivan, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care

Ontario; Dr. Kue Young, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto;

Ms. Carmen Jones and Ms. Valorie Whetung, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer

Care Ontario

2001 – 2003 Programme of Research in Environmental Etiology of Cancer (PREECAN)

Training Award (To support PhD. student Mark Purdue)

A cross-sectional study investigating the existence of independent etiologic pathways in

the pathogenesis of cutaneous malignant melanoma ($29,200)

Co-trainers: Mr. Richard Gallagher, Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency;

Dr. John McLaughlin, Division of Epidemiology & Statistics, Samuel Lunenfeld

Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital; Dr. Anne Kricker, National Breast Cancer

Centre, New South Wales, Australia

2001 Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)

Ontario miners database feasibility study ($9,630)

2000 – 2003 National Institutes of Health (United States)

Sun exposure recall: Instrument development and evaluation (US $100,000)

Co-investigators: Ms. Beth Theis, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care

Ontario and Dr. Fred Ashbury, PICEPS Consultants Inc.

2000 – 2001 Health Canada

Workshop on cancer trends in young adults in Canada ($24,890)

2000 – 2002 National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)

Investigation of risk factors for p53 protein abnormality in cutaneous malignant

melanoma ($34,107)

Co-investigators: Dr. Lynn From, Divisions of Dermatology and Pathology, Sunnybrook

& Women’s College Health Sciences Centre; Dr. Harriette Kahn, Divisions of

Dermatology and Pathology, Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre;

Mr. Richard Gallagher, Department of Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency;

Dr. John McLaughlin, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Samuel Lunenfeld

Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital

1999 – 2005 National Institutes of Health (United States)

A model for genetic susceptibility: melanoma (Multi-centre grant)

(Ontario grant: US $242,000)

Overall Principal Investigator: Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico

1999 - 2000 Health Canada (LCDC)

Validation of self-reported skin colour (pilot project) ($9,000)

1999 Environment Canada

Ontario sun survey data analysis ($5,000)

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Farmers’ sun safety survey development ($9,000)


Ontario sun survey data analysis ($10,000)


Assessing the impact of various screening-related strategies on cervical cancer incidence

($13,048)

Co-investigators: Dr. Vivek Goel, Department of Public Health Sciences, University

of Toronto, and Dr. Raymond Osborne, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Toronto-

Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre

1997 Health Canada (Adult Health Division)

Development of an economic model for comparative costing of cervical cancer screening

programs ($15,700)

Co-investigator: Dr. Vivek Goel, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of

Toronto

1997 Health Canada (LCDC)

Analysis of geographic variation in cervical cancer incidence ($5,000)


Analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data in Ontario Aboriginals ($24,000)


Pilot study of use of tanning beds/lamps in Ontario ($20,000)

1995 - 1997 Ontario Ministry of Health (Public Health Branch)

Development of an Ontario Cervical Screening Information and Reporting System (pilot

projects) ($300,000)

Co-investigator: Dr. E. Aileen Clarke, Department of Preventive Oncology, Ontario

Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation

1995 Health Canada (LCDC)

Development of an Ontario Cervical Screening Information and Reporting System (pilot

projects) ($49,000)

1993 - 1995 Ontario Ministry of Health

A Province-wide retrospective cohort study of reproductive outcomes

in female childhood cancer survivors ($250,000)


Incidence of cancer in First Nations ($161,000)

Co-investigator: Ms. Shelly Hilditch, Department of Preventive Medicine and

Biostatistics, University of Toronto

1992 - 1994 Health and Welfare Canada (LCDC)

Great Lakes cancer risk assessment ($322,000)

Co-investigator: Mr. Will King, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario


1991 - 1996 Ontario Ministry of Labour (IDSP)

A study of the feasibility of linkage of census occupation data and the Ontario Cancer

Registry ($35,045)

1990 - 1992 Health and Welfare Canada (LCDC)

Investigations of quality of residence data in the Ontario Cancer Registry ($53,000)

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1991 Health and Welfare Canada (LCDC)

Design of a case-control study to investigate cancer and consumption of Great Lakes

water ($21,000)

Co-investigator: Mr. Will King, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario


1989 - 1990 Ontario Ministry of Labour (IDSP)

Design of a feasibility study of census - OCR linkage to create a cancer occupation

database for Ontario ($15,000)

1989 - 1993 Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation

Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics,

University of Toronto (approximately $384,000 per year)


Congenital anomalies in the offspring of cancer patients ($192,000)

Co-investigators: Dr. G. Sherman, Health and Welfare Canada, Laboratory Centre for

Disease Control, and Dr. D.J. Tomkins, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University


A case-control study of the etiology of malignant germ cell tumours in Ontario

($293,191)

Co-investigator: Ms. Hannah Weir, Division of Epidemiology and Statistics, Ontario


1987 - 1988 Ontario Ministry of Labour (Industrial Disease Standards Panel)

Review of Approaches to the Development of Occupation-Cancer Database in Ontario

($15,000)


Epidemiologic study of risk factors for kidney cancer in Ontario ($146,971)

Co-investigators: Dr. Nancy Kreiger and Ms. Linda Dodds, Division of Epidemiology

and Statistics, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, and Ms. Shelly

Hilditch, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto

1983 - 1988 Health and Welfare Canada (NHRDP)

National Health Research Scholar Award ($181,707)

1979 - 1981 The National Bladder Cancer Project of the National Cancer Institute (U.S.)

A population-based study of lower urinary tract tumors ($57,922)

Co-investigator: Dr. J.W. Meigs, Yale University

Research Awards as Co-Investigator:


Making the link between exposure and respiratory in the clinical setting:

what are the steps?

PI: Linn Holness; Co-Investigators: Irena Kudia, John Oudyk, Karin Hohenadel

2010-2013 Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

An investigation of risk factors common to cancer at different sites

Principal Investigator: Lisa Martin ($392,628)

2007-2012 Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

Access to quality cancer care and control for Manitoba’s First Nations: identifying issues,

reducing risk and ensuring equitable access

Principal Investigator: Brenda Elias, University of Manitoba ($1,495,213)

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2007-2010 Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) – Ontario Chapter

Breast cancer survival in Ontario First Nations Women: understanding the determinants

Principal Investigator: Anna Chiarelli, Cancer Care Ontario ($288,320)

2004-2005 Canadian Dermatology Foundation (CDF)

Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms in Malignant Melanoma

Principal Investigator: Rochelle Mandelcorn-Monson, University of Toronto ($25,000)

2003-2004 Canadian Dermatology Foundation (CDF)

Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms in Malignant Melanoma

Principal Investigator: Rochelle Mandelcorn-Monson, University of Toronto ($10,000)

2003-2004 Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia

The Occupation of Firefighting and Cancer Risks, Assessment of the Literature

Principal Investigator: Terry Sullivan, Cancer Care Ontario ($59,800)

2000-2006 National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC)

Canadian Cancer Etiology Research Network (CCERN)

Principal Investigator: G Eyssen, University of Toronto ($1.5 million)

1998-2001 Medical Research Council (MRC)

Reproductive Outcomes and Radiation among Canadian Medical Radiation

Technologists

Principal Investigator: JR McLaughlin, University of Toronto ($140,673)

1993-1995 Health and Welfare Canada (NHRDP)

Determinants of Regional Variation of Cancer Incidence in Ontario

Principal Investigator: SD Walter, McMaster University ($70,004)


A Case-Control Study of Dietary Factors and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Principal Investigator: H Risch, University of Toronto ($343,766)


Geographic Variation in Ontario Cancer Rates



The Role of Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18 in Cervical Cancer

Principal Investigator: WE Rawls, McMaster University ($43,794.50)

1987 - 1989 Health and Welfare Canada (NHRDP) and Atomic Energy Control Board

Case-control Study of Risk Factors for Thyroid Cancer with Emphasis on Radiation

Principal Investigator: GB Hill, McGill University ($104,000 [Ontario portion])

1984 - 1987 National Cancer Institute of Canada and Health and Welfare Canada (NHRDP)

Case-control Study of Malignant Melanoma


Professional Affiliations:

Member, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Member, Society for Epidemiologic Research

Member, International Epidemiological Association

Professional Activities:

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External Committees

- Member, Innovation Grant Panel, Canadian Cancer Society Research

Institute, National Office, 2013

- Chair, Data Use and Publications Committee (DUPC), Council of Canadian

Cancer Registries, 2010 – 2012

- Co-Chair, Ontario Sun Safety Working Group (OSSWG), 2010 -

- Executive Committee Member, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and

Biostatistics, 2003-2005; 2008 -2011

- Interim Co-Chair, National Skin Cancer Prevention Committee (NSCPC),

February 2007 - 2008

- Chair, Canadian Cancer Statistics Steering Committee, 2006 – 2010

- Co-Chair, Canada-U.S. Indigenous Cancer Collaborative (CUSICC), 2005 -

- Member-at-large, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and

Biostatistics, 1999-2001

Committee/expert panel membership:

- CONCORD2 Steering Committee, 2010 -

- Chiefs of Ontario, Cancer Surveillance Working Group, 2009 -

- CAREX Canada National Advisory Committee, 2009 –

- Canadian Cancer Society Prevention Initiative - National Advisory

Committee on Research in Prevention (NACORP), 2008 – 2011

- - Interim Chair, Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC) Steering

Committee, 2008-2009

- Surveillance Advisory Group, Canadian Partnership Against

Cancer, December 2007 - 2012

- National Uranium Miners Working Group (collaboration with the Canadian

Nuclear Safety Commission), 2007 -2011

- Data Use and Publications Committee (DUPC), Council of Canadian Cancer

Registries, 2007 - 2010

- Expert Panel on Screening Guidelines for Asbestos and Beryllium related

Lung Diseases, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2005-2006

- Working Group for Cervical Cancer Screening, International Agency for

Research in Cancer, 2003-2004

- Canadian Cancer Statistics Steering Committee, 2003 – 2006

- Skin Cancer Screening Guidelines Group, 2003-2006

- Planning Committee for the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries (NAACCR) 2002 Annual Meeting, January – June, 2002

- Canadian Health Network Skin Cancer Task Force Group, 2001-2002

- National Skin Cancer Prevention Committee, 2000 - 2007, 2008-2010

(committee disbanded 2010)

- Ultraviolet Radiation Working Group, Toronto Cancer Prevention

Coalition, 1999–2000, 2003 -

- 2001 Epidemiology Congress Planning Committee, 1998 - 2001

- Ontario Sun Safety Working Group (OSSWG), 1997 – 2010

- Joint Cancer Care Ontario - Aboriginal Cancer Committee

(JOACC), 1996-2009

- Ontario Cervical Screening Collaborative Group, 1994 - 1998

- Research Advisory Panel, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research

Foundation, 1989-1994

Internal Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Committees*

(* including more informal “working groups” with other parts of CCO)

- Co-Chair, Cancer Systems Quality Index (CSQI) Provincial Leadership Team,

2011- 2013.

- Privacy Lead, Surveillance, Cancer Care Ontario Privacy, 2007 – 2013.

- Member, Cancer System Quality Index (CSQI) – Prevention and

Surveillance Indicators Working Group, 2007 -2011

- Member, Directors Communication Group, 2007 - 2011

- Co-Chair, Enterprise Data Warehouse OCR Redevelopment – Project

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Leadership Team (EDW-PLT), 2008 -2012

- Member, Information Management Committee, 2007 - 2011

Research Review Panels: - Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCSRI) Innovation Grants

Review Panel, 2013.

- National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) Behavioral Research/

Psychosocial/Cancer Control Personnel Awards Panel, 2007-2008

(Chair, 2008)

- Population Health Committee, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

(CIHR), 2003 - 2007

- MRC CIHR Opportunity Program Committee, 2000

- NCIC Epidemiology Panel, 1997 - 2000

- MRC Population Health Committee, 1996 – 1998, 2000

- NCIC Epidemiology and Clinical Trials Review Committee, 1994

- NHRDP Committee 58 (Occupational/Chronic Disease Epidemiology),

1985-1990

Journal reviews: - Public Health Nutrition -

- American Journal of Epidemiology

- BMC Cancer

- Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization

- Canadian Medical Association Journal

- Canadian Journal of Public Health

- Cancer Detection and Prevention

- Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention

- Cancer Causes and Control

- Chronic Diseases in Canada

- International Journal of Cancer

- International Journal for Quality in Health Care

- Journal of Investigative Dermatology

- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

- Journal of the National Cancer Institute

- Photochemistry and Photobiology

- World Health Bulletin

Areas of Interest:

Cancer epidemiology

Occupational and environmental etiologies of cancer

Cancer and risk factor surveillance

Cervical cancer screening

Melanoma and ultraviolet radiation

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

* First author is a student whose work was conducted under my direct supervision

Thomas NE, Kricker A, Waxweiler WT, Dillon PM, Busam KJ, From L, Groben PA, Armstrong BK, Anton-Culver

H, Gruber SB, Marrett LD, Gallagher RP, Zanetti R, Rosso S, Dwyer T, Venn A, Kanetsky PA, Orlow I, Paine S,

Ollila DW, Reiner AS, Luo L, Hao H, Frank JS, Begg CB, Berwick M, for the GEM Study Group. Comparison of

Clinicopathologic Features and Survival of Histopathologically Amelanotic and Pigmented Melanomas: A

Population-Based Study. JAMA Dermatology (in press).

Berwick M, Reiner AS, Paine S, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Goumas C, Thomas NE, Groben PA, From L, Busam K,

Orlow I, Marrett LM, et al, for the GEM Study Group. Sun Exposure and Melanoma Survival: A GEM Study.

Submitted Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2014).

*Prummel MV, Young SJ, Candido E, Nishri D, Elit L, Marrett LD. Cervical Cancer Incidence in Ontario Women:

Differing Sociodemographic Gradients by Morphologic Type (Adenocarcinoma vs. Squamous Cell). Submitted Int

J Gynecol Cancer (2014)

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*Withrow D, Amartey A, Marrett LD. Cancer risk factors and screening in the off-reserve First Nations, Metis and

Non-Aboriginal populations of Ontario of Canada. Chronic Dis Inj Can (in press)

Rabeneck L, Tinmouth J, Marrett LD, Lawrence P, Baxter N, Ruco A, Lewis N, Gao J, Wang Li. Ontario’s

ColonCancerCheck: Results from Canada’s first province-wide colorectal cancer screening program. Cancer

Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2014; 23:508-15.

Berwick M, MacArthur J, Orlow I, Kanetsky P, Begg, Luo L, Reniner A, Sharma A, Armstrong B, Kricker A, Cust

A, Marrett LD, Gruber S, Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Rosso S, Gallagher R, Dwyer T, Venn A, Busam K, White K,

Thomas N; the GEM Study Group. MITF E318K’s effect on melanoma risk independent of, but modified by, other

risk factors. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 2014 Jan 9. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.12215.

De P, Otterstatter MC, Semenciw R, Ellison LF, Marrett LD, Dryer D. Trends in incidence, mortality and survival

for kidney cancer in Canada, 1986-2007. Submitted Cancer Causes Control (2013).

Nishri ED, Sheppard AJ, Withrow DR, Marrett LD. Cancer survival among First Nations people of Ontario, Canada

(1968-2007). Int J Cancer (in press).

Armstrong B, Berwick M, Paine, S, Luo L, Orlow I, Kanetsky P, Begg C, Reiner A, Wilcox HB, Anton-Culver H,

Gruber S, Marrett LD, From L, Kricker A, Rosso S, Zanetti R, Dwyer T, Venn A, Groben P, Honglin H, Gallagher

RP, Ollila D for the GEM Study Group. Clinicopathologic features and melanoma-specific survival for amelanotic

and pigmented melanoma in the population-based GEM study. Submitted J Invest Dermatol (2013)

Orlow I, Reiner AS, Roy P, Thomas NE, Paine S, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Rosso S, Zanetti R,

Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Gallagher RP, Kanetsky PA, Dwyer T, Venn A, Millikan RC, Busam K, From L, Begg

CB and Berwick M for the GEM Study Group. Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and survival in patients with

cutaneous melanoma: a population-based study. Submitted J Invest Dermatol (2013)

Kricker A, Armstrong BK, Goumas C, Thomas NE, From L, Busam K, Kanetsky PA, Gallagher RP, Marrett LD,

Millikan RC, Groben PA, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Rosso S, Dwyer T and Berwick M for GEM Study Group.

Survival for patients with single and multiple primary melanomas in the GEM study. JAMA Dermatol 2013; 149:

921-7.

Otterstatter MC, Brierley JD, De P, Ellison LF, MacIntyre M, Marrett LD, Semenciw R, Weir HK for the Canadian

Cancer Statistics Steering Committee. Esophageal cancer in Canada: trends by morphology and anatomical location.

Can J Gastroenterol 2012; 26:723-7.

Elit L, Saskin R, Raut R, Elliott L, Murphy J, Marrett L. Sociodemographic factors associated with cervical cancer

screening coverage and follow-up of high grade abnormal results in a population-based cohort. Gynecol Oncol 2012;

128:95-100.

Mukherjee B, Delancey JO, Raskin L, Everett J, Jeter J, Begg CB, Orlow I, Berwick M, Armstrong BK, Kricker A,

Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Culver HA, Rosso S, Zanetti R, Kanetsky PA, From L, Gruber SB; GEM Study

Investigators. Risk of non-melanoma cancers in first-degree relatives of CDKN2A mutation carriers. J Natl Cancer

Inst 2012; 104:953-6

Berwick M, Begg CB, Armstrong BK, Reiner AS, Thomas NE, Cook LS, Orlow I, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Gruber

SB, Anton-Culver H, Millikan RC, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Kanetsky PA, Lee-Taylor J for the GEM Study Group.

Interaction of CDKN2A and sun exposure in the etiology of melanoma in the general population. J Invest Dermatol

2011; 131:2500-3.

*Sheppard A, Chiarelli A, Marrett L, Nishri D, Trudeau M. Stage at diagnosis and comorbidity influence breast

cancer survival in First Nations women in Ontario, Canada. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2011; 20:2160-7.

Mandelcorn-Monson R, Marrett L, Kricker A, Armstrong BK, Orlow I, Goumas C, Paine S, Rosso S, Thomas N,

Millikan RC, Pole JD, Cotignola J, Rosen C, Kanetsky PA, Lee-Taylor J, Begg CB, Berwick M. Sun exposure,

vitamin D receptor polymorphisms FokI and BsmI and risk of multiple primary melanoma. Cancer Epidemiol 2011

December ; 35(6): e105–10. doi:10.1016/j.canep.2011.03.003.s

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Orlow I, Roy P, Reiner A, Yoo S, Patel H, Paine S, Armstrong B, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan R, Thomas N,

Gruber S, Anton-Culver H, Rosso S, Gallagher R for the GEM Study Group. Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms in

patients with cutaneous melanoma. Int J Cancer 2012;130:405-18.

Weir HK, Marrett LD, Cokkinides V, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Patel P, Tai E, Jemal A, Li J, Kim J, Ekwueme DU.

Melanoma in adolescents and young adults (ages 15-39 years): United States 1999-2006. J Am Acad Dermatol

2011; 65(5 Suppl 1):S38-49.

Hohenadel K, Pichora E, Marrett LD, Bukvic D, Brown J, Harris S, Demers PA, Blair AE. Priority issues in

occupational cancer research: Ontario stakeholder perspectives. Chronic Dis Inj Can 2011; 31:147-51.

*Sheppard AJ, Chiarelli AM, Stewart L, Marrett LD, Lidstone-Jones C, Chua-Alamag, R, Hey, A, Madarnas, Y, Nishri,

D, Trudeau M, Warner, D. Aboriginal Breast Cancer Care Workshop Report: Strategies to improve First Nations cancer

care in Ontario. Circumpolar Health Supplement 2010; 7:168-173.

Blair A, Marrett L, Beane Freeman L. Occupational cancer in developed countries. Environ Health 2010;10(Suppl

1):S9,1-3.

Coleman MP, Forman D, Bryant H, Butler J, Rachet B, Maringe C, Nur U, Tracey E, Coory M, Hatcher J, McGahan

CE, Turner D, Marrett L, Gjerstorff ML, Johannesen TB, Adolfsson J, Lambe M, Lawrence G, Meechan D, Morris

EJ, Middleton R, Steward J, Richards MA; ICBP Module 1 Working Group. Cancer survival in Australia, Canada,

Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK, 1995-2007: the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership. Lancet

Oncology 2011;377:127-38.

De P, Ellison LF, Barr RD, Semenciw R, Marrett LD, Weir HK Dryer D, Grunfeld E for the Steering Committee for

Canadian Cancer Statistics. Canadian adolescents and young adults with cancer: opportunity to improve coordination

and level of care. CMAJ 2011;183:E187-94.

Kricker A, Armstrong BK, Goumas C, Kanetsky P, Gallagher RP, Begg CB, Millikan RC, Dwyer T, Rosso S,

Marrett LD, Thomas NE, Berwick M; Genes, Environment and Melanoma Study Group. MCIR genotype may

modify the effect of sun exposure on melanoma risk in the GEM Study. Cancer Causes Control 2010;21:2137-47.

Thomas NE, Kricker A, From L, Busam K, Millikan RC, Ritchey ME, Armstrong BK, Lee-Taylor J, Marrett LD,

Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Rosso S, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Goumas C, Kanetsky PA, Begg CB, Orlow I, Wilcox

H, Paine S, Berwick M; Genes, Environment, and Melanoma Study Group. Associations of cumulative sun exposure

and phenotypic characteristics with histologic solar elastosis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010;19:2932-41.

Fioletov VE, McArthur LJB, Mathews TW, Marrett L. Estimated Ultraviolet exposure levels for a sufficient vitamin

D status in North America. J Photochem Photobiol B 2010;100:57-66.

Marrett LD, Northrup DA, Pichora EC, Spinks MT, Rosen CF. The Second National Sun Survey (NSS2): Overview

and methods. Can J Public Health 2010;101:I10-I13.

Pichora EC, Marrett LD. Sun behaviour in Canadian children: Results of the 2006 National Sun Survey. Can J

Public Health 2010;101:I14-I18.

Marrett LD, Pichora EC, Costa ML. Work-time sun behaviours among Canadian outdoor workers: Results from the

2006 National Sun Survey. Can J Public Health 2010;101:I19-I22.

*Sheppard AJ, Chiarelli AM, Marrett LD, Mirea L, Nishri ED, Trudeau ME and the Aboriginal Breast Cancer Study

Group. Detection of later stage breast cancer in First Nations women in Ontario, Canada. Can J Public Health 2010;

101:101-5.

Fioletov VE, McArthur LJB, Mathews TW, Marrett L. On the relationship between erythemal and vitamin D action

spectrum weighted ultraviolet radiation. J Photochem Photobiol, B 2009;95:9-16.

Marrett LD, De P, Airia P, Dryer D; Steering Committee Canadian Cancer Statistics. Cancer in Canada in 2008.

CMAJ 2008;179:1163-70.

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Waller B, Pichora E, Marrett LD. The Second National Sun Survey: Workshop Report. Chronic Dis Can 2008;29:39-

42.

Bahl S, Theis B, Nishri D, Marrett LD. Changing incidence of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin

lymphoma in Ontario, Canada.. Cancer Cause Control 2008;19:1251-58.

Weir HK, Jim M, Marrett LD, Fairley T. Cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native Young Adults (ages 20-44

years): United States, 1999-2004. Cancer 2008;113:1153-67.

Marrett LD, Ellison LE, Dryer D. Canadian cancer statistics at a glance: mesothelioma. CMAJ 2008;178:677-8.

Ritchie AJ, Marrett L. Exploring why survival upon breast cancer diagnosis is poorer among First Nations women of

Ontario compared to other Ontario women. Alaska Med 2007;49(2 Suppl):95-8

Kricker A, Armstrong B,

Goumas C, Litchfield M, Begg CB,

Hummer A, Marrett, LD, Theis B, Millikan RC,

Thomas N, Culver HA, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Kanetsky PA, Busam K, From L, Mujumdar U,

Zanetti R, Berwick M; GEM Study Group. Ambient UV, personal sun exposure and risk of multiple primary

melanomas. Cancer Causes Control 2007;18:295-304.

Orlow I, Begg CB, Cotignola J, Roy P, Hummer AJ, Clas BA, Mujumdar U, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD,

Millikan RC, Gruber SB, Anton-Culver H, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Rebbeck TR, Kanetsky PA, Wilcox

H, Busam K, From L, Berwick M; GEM Study Group. CDKN2A germline mutations in individuals with cutaneous

malignant melanoma. J Invest Dermatol 2007;127:1234-43.

Howlett R, Marrett LD, Innis M, Rosen B, McLachlin CM. Decreasing incidence of cervical adenocarcinoma in

Ontario: is this related to dual specimen collection? Int J Cancer 2006;120:362-7.

Kanetsky PA, Rebbeck TR, Hummer AJ, Panossian S, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, Millikan RC, Gruber

SB, Culver HA, Zanetti R, Gallagher RP, Dwyer T, Busam K, From L, Mujumdar U, Wilcox H, Begg CB, Berwick

M. Population-based study of natural variation in melanocortin-1 receptor gene and melanoma. Cancer Res

2006;66:9330-7.

Berwick M, Orlow I, Hummer A, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, et al for the GEM Study Group. The

prevalence of CDKN2A germline mutations and relative risk for cutaneous malignant melanoma: an international

population-based study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006;15:1520-5.

Begg CB, Hummer A, Mujumdar U, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, et al. for the GEM Study Group. A

design for cancer case-control studies using only incident cases: experience with the GEM study of melanoma. Int J

Epidemiol 2006;35:756-64.

Agha MM, Williams JI, Marrett LD, To T, Zipursky A, Dodds L. Determinants of survival in children with

congenital abnormalities. A population-based cohort study. Birth Defect Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular

Teratology 2006;76:46-54.

Millikan RC, Hummer A, Begg C, Player J, de Cotret AR, Winkel S, Mohreweiser H, Thomas N, Armstrong B,

Kricker A, Marrett LD, et al for the GEM Study Group. Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of

multiple primary melanoma: the genes environment and melanoma study. Carcinogenesis 2005;27:610-18.

Begg CB, Orlow I, Hummer A, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, et al. for the GEM Study Group. Lifetime

risk of melanoma in CDKN2A carriers in a population-based sample. J Natl Cancer I 2005;97:1507-15.

*Purdue MP, From L, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Gallagher RP, McLaughlin JR, Klar NS, Marrett LD for the GEM

Study Group. Etiologic and other factors predicting nevus-associated cutaneous malignant melanoma. Cancer

Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005;14:2015-22.

*Relova S, Marrett LD, Klar N, McLaughlin J, Ashbury F, Nishri D, Theis B. Predictors of self-reported confidence

ratings for adult recall of early-life sun exposure. Am J Epidemiol 2005;162:183-92.

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*Purdue M, From L, Kahn H, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Gallagher RP, McLaughlin JR, Klar NS, Marrett LD for

the GEM Study Group. Etiologic factors associated with p53 immunostaining in cutaneous malignant melanoma. Int

J Cancer 2005; 117:486-93.

Agha MM, Williams JI, Marrett LD, To T, Zipursky A, Dodds L. Congenital abnormalities and childhood cancer a

prospective cohort record linkage study. Cancer 2005;103:1939-48.

Begg CB, Hummer A, Mujumdar U, Armstrong BK, Kricker A, Marrett LD, et al. for the GEM Study Group.

Familial aggregation of melanoma risks in a large population-based sample of melanoma cases. Cancer Cause

Control 2004;15:957-65.

Marrett LD, Chaudhry M. Cancer incidence and mortality in Ontario First Nations, 1968-1991. Cancer Cause

Control 2003;14:259-28.

Kreiger N, Ashbury FD, Purdue MP, Marrett LD. Workshop report: Environmental exposures and cancer

prevention. Environ Health Persp 2003;111:105-8.

Marrett LD, Robles S, Ashbury FD, Green B, Goel V, Luciani S. A proposal for cervical screening information

systems in developing countries. Int J Cancer 2002;102:293-99.

Marrett LD, Frood J, Nishri D, Ugnat AM, Cancer in Young Adults in Canada (CYAC) Working Group. Cancer

incidence in young adults in Canada: Preliminary results of a cancer surveillance project. Chronic Dis Can

2002;23:58-64.

Theis B, Frood J, Nishri D, Marrett LD. Evaluation of a risk factor survey with three assessment methods. Chronic

Dis Can 2002;23:1-12.

Woolcott CG, King WD, Marrett LD. Coffee and tea consumption and cancers of the bladder, colon and rectum.

Eur J Ca Prev 2002;11:137-45.

*Purdue MP, Marrett LD, Peters L, Rivers JK. Predictors of sunburn among Canadian adults. Prev Med

2001;33:305-12.

Marrett LD, Nguyen H, Armstrong BK. Trends in the incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma in New South

Wales, 1983-1996. Int J Cancer 2001;92:457-62.

Urbach DR, Marrett LD, Kung R, Cohen MM. Association of perforation of the appendix with female tubal

infertility. Am J Epidemiol 2001;153:566-71.

Marrett LD, Theis B, Ashbury FD, and an Expert Panel. Workshop report: Physical activity and cancer prevention.

Chronic Dis Can 2000;4:143-49.

Walter SD, Ashbolt R, Dwyer T, Marrett LD. Do larger people have more nevi? Nevus frequency versus nevus

density. Int J Epidemiol 2000;29:1025-30.

*King WD, Marrett LD, Woolcott CG. Case-control study of colon and rectal cancers and chlorination by-products

in treated water. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2000;9:813-18.

Weir HK, Marrett LD, Kreiger N, Darlington GA, Sugar L. Prenatal and perinatal exposures and risk of testicular

germ cell cancer. Int J Cancer 2000;87:438-43.

Semenciw RM, Le ND, Marrett LD, Robson DL, Turner D, Walter SD. Methodological issues in the development

of the Canadian Cancer Incidence Atlas. Stat Med 2000;19:2437-449.

*Chiarelli AM, Marrett LD, Darlington GA. Pregnancy outcomes in females after treatment for childhood cancer.

Epidemiology 2000;11:161-16.

Lovato C, Shoveller J, Mills C (Marrett LD: Member of Expert Panel). Workshop Report: Canadian National

Workshop on Measurement of Sun-related Behaviours. Chronic Dis Can 1999;20:96-100.

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*Chiarelli AM, Marrett LD, Darlington GD. Early menopause and infertility in females after treatment for childhood

cancer diagnosed in 1964-1988 in Ontario. Am J Epidemiol 1999;150:245-54.

Walter SD, King WD, Marrett LD. Association of cutaneous malignant melanoma with intermittent exposure to

ultraviolet radiation: results of a case-control study in Ontario, Canada. Int J Epidemiol 1999;28:418-27.

Walter SD, Marrett LD, Taylor SM, King D. An analysis of the geographic variation in cancer incidence and its

determinants in Ontario. Can J Pub Health 1999; 90:104-8.

Weir HK, Marrett LD, Moravan V. Trends in the incidence of testicular germ cell cancer in Ontario by histologic

subgroup, 1964-1996. Can Med Asso J 1999; 160:201-5.

Marrett LD, Theis B, Baker M, Whittick D. Challenges of developing a cervical screening information system: the

Ontario pilot project. Cancer Prevention and Control 1998; 2:221-7.

Weir HK, Kreiger N, Marrett LD. Age at puberty and risk of testicular germ cell cancer (Ontario, Canada). Cancer

Cause Control 1998; 9:253-58.

*Knight JA, Marrett LD. Parental occupational exposure and the risk of testicular cancer in Ontario. J Occup

Environ Med 1997; 39:333-38.

*King WD, Marrett LD. Case-control study of bladder cancer and chlorination by-products in treated water (Ontario,

Canada). Cancer Cause Control 1996; 7:596-604.

*Knight JA, Marrett LD, Weir HK. Occupation and risk of germ cell testicular cancer by histologic type in Ontario. J

Occup Environ Med 1996; 38:884-90.

Aronson KJ, Dodds LA, Marrett LD, Wall C. Congenital anomalies among the offspring of fire fighters. Am J Ind Med

1996; 30:83-86.

Risch HA, Marrett LD, Jain M, Howe GR. Differences in risk factors for epithelial ovarian cancer by histologic type:

Results of a case-control study. Am J Epidemiol 1996; 144:363-72.

Risch HA, Marrett LD, Howe GR. Parity, contraception, infertility and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. Am J

Epidemiol 1994; 140:585-97.

Risch HA, Jain M, Marrett LD, Howe GR. Dietary fat intake and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. JNCI 1994; 86:1409-

15.

Risch HA, Jain M, Marrett LD, Howe GR. Dietary lactose intake, lactose intolerance, and the risk of epithelial ovarian

cancer in southern Ontario (Canada). Cancer Cause Control 1994; 5:540-48.

Walter SD, Birnie SE, Marrett LD, Taylor SM, Reynolds D, Davies J, Drake J, Hayes M. The geographic variation of

cancer incidence in Ontario. Am J Public Health 1994; 84:367-76.

Kreiger N, Marrett LD, Dodds L, Hilditch S, Darlington GA. Risk factors for renal cell carcinoma: Results of a

population-based case-control study. Cancer Cause Control 1993; 4:101-10.

*Dodds L, Marrett LD, Tomkins DJ, Green B, Sherman G. Case-control study of congenital anomalies in children of

cancer patients. Brit Med J 1993; 307:164-8.

Marrett LD, Weir E. Accuracy of municipality-level residence information in the Ontario Cancer Registry: Results of a

pilot study. Health Reports 1993; 5:11-16.

Marrett LD, Kreiger N, Dodds L, Hilditch S. The effect on response rates of offering a small incentive with a mailed

questionnaire. Annals Epidemiol 1992; 2:745-53.

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Marrett LD, King WD, Walter SD, From L. Use of host factors to identify people at high risk for cutaneous malignant

melanoma. Can Med Assoc J 1992; 147:445-53.

Walter SD, Marrett LD, From L, et al. The association of cutaneous malignant melanoma and fluorescent light exposure.

Am J Epidemiol 1992; 135:749-62.

Marrett LD. Nonsolar sources of ultraviolet radiation and the risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma. Can J Dermatol

1992;4:299-305.

McLaughlin JR, Kreiger N, Marrett LD, Holowaty EJ. Cancer incidence registration and trends in Ontario. European J

Cancer 1991; 27:1520-4.

Walter SD, Marrett LD, Hertzman C. Reliability of interviewer and subject assessments of nevus counts in a study of

melanoma. J Clin Epidemiol 1991; 44:633-40.

Walter SD, Marrett LD, From L, Hertzman C, Shannon H, Roy P. The association of cutaneous malignant melanoma

with the use of sunbeds and sunlamps. Am J Epidemiol 1990; 131:232-43.

Caussy D, Marrett LD, Worth AJ, McBride M, Rawls WE. Human papillomavirus and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia

in women who subsequently had invasive cancer. Can Med Assoc J 1990; 142:311-17.

*Robles SC, Marrett LD, Clarke EA, Risch HA. An application of capture-recapture methods to the estimation of

completeness of cancer registration. J Clin Epidemiol 1988; 41:495-501.

Walter SD, Marrett LD, Mishkel NR. Effect of contact letter on control response rates in cancer studies. Am J

Epidemiol 1988; 127:691-4.

Cantor KP, Hoover R, Hartge P, Mason TJ, Silverman DT, Altman R, Austin DF, Child MA, Key CR, Marrett LD, et

al. Bladder cancer, drinking water source, and tap water consumption: A case-control study. JNCI 1987; 9:1269-79.

Hartge P, Silverman D, Hoover R, Schairer C, Altman R, Austin D, Cantor K, Child M, Key C, Marrett LD, et al.

Changing cigarette habits and bladder cancer risk: A case-control study. JNCI 1987; 78:1119-25.

Marrett LD, Weir HK, Clarke EA, Magee CJB. Rates of death from testicular cancer in Ontario in 1964-1982: An

analysis by major histologic subgroups. Can Med Assoc J. 1986; 135:999-1002.

Rawls WE, Lavery C, Marrett LD, et al. Comparison of risk factors for cervical cancer in different populations. Int J

Cancer 1986; 37:537-46.

Meigs JW, Marrett LD, Ulrich FU, Flannery JT. Bladder tumor incidence among workers exposed to benzidine: A

thirty-year follow-up. JNCI 1986; 76:1-8.

Marrett LD, Hartge P, Meigs JW. Bladder cancer and occupational leather exposure. Br J Ind Med 1986; 43:96-100.

Kreiger N, Marrett LD, Clarke EA, Hilditch S, Woolever CA. Risk factors for adenomatous endometrial hyperplasia: A

case-control study. Am J Epidemiol 1986; 123:291-301.

Marrett LD, Clarke EA, Hatcher J, Weir HK. Epidemiologic research using the Ontario Cancer Registry. Can J Pub

Health 1986; 77 (Supplementement 1):79-85.

Rawls WE, Marrett LD, Reeves WC. An analysis of the association between Herpes Simplex virus type 2 antibodies and

cervical cancer. In: Peto R, zur Hausen H, eds. Banbury Report 21: Viral Etiology of Cervical Cancer. Cold Spring

Harbor, New York. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1986:187-97.

Marrett LD, Meigs JW, Flannery JT. Bladder cancer in Connecticut: The role of cigarette smoking and other risk

factors. Connecticut Medicine 1985; 49:718-26.

Marrett LD, Walter SD, Meigs JW. Coffee drinking and bladder cancer in Connecticut. Am J Epidemiol 1983;

117:113-27.

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Hartge P, Hoover R, Altman R, Austin DF, Cantor KP, Child MA, Key CR, Mason TJ, Marrett LD, et al. Use of hair

dyes and risk of bladder cancer. Cancer Research 1982; 42:4784-7.

Marrett LD, Meigs JW, Flannery JT. Trends in the incidence of cancer of the corpus uteri in Connecticut, 1964-1979, in

relation to consumption of exogenous estrogens. Am J Epidemiol 1982; 116:57-67.

Hoover RN, Strasser PH, Meigs JW, Marrett LD. Artificial sweeteners and human bladder cancer - Preliminary results.

Lancet 1980; 1:837-40.

Marrett LD. Estimates of the true population at risk of uterine disease and an application to incidence data for cancer of

the uterine corpus in Connecticut. Am J Epidemiol 1980; 111:373-8 (and correction in Am J Epidemiol 1980; 112:168).

Marrett LD, Elwood JM, Meigs JW, Flannery JT. Recent trends in the incidence and mortality of cancer of the uterine

corpus in Connecticut. Gynecol Oncol 1978; 6:183-95.

Miller CT, Neutel CI, Nair RC, Marrett LD, Last JM, Collins WE. Relative importance of risk factors in bladder

carcinogenesis. J Chron Dis 1978; 31:51-6.

Book Chapters:

Blair A, Hohenadel K, Demers P, Marrett L and Straif K. Prevention of cccupationally induced cancer. In: Miller

AB. Epidemiologic Studies in Cancer Prevention and Screening. Springer, New York, N.Y. 2013, pp. 33-44.

Walter SD, Taylor SM, Marrett LD. An analysis of determinants of regional variation in cancer incidence: Ontario,

Canada. In: Lawson A, et al., eds. Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health. Wiley UK, 1999.

Knight JA, Marrett LD, Weir HK. Occupations of fathers before conception and the risk of testicular cancer in their

sons. In: Mattison DR, Olshan A, eds. Male-Mediated Development Toxicity. Plenum Press, New York, 1994, pp. 339-

348.

Marrett LD. Non-solar sources of ultraviolet radiation and cutaneous malignant melanoma: a review of the evidence: In:

Gallagher RP, Elwood JM, eds. Epidemiological Aspects of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma. Kluwer Academic

Publishers, Boston, 1994, pp. 107-27.

Clarke EA, Marrett LD, Kreiger N. Cancer registration in Ontario: A computer approach. In: Jensen OM, Parkin DM,

MacLennan R et al. Cancer Registration: Principles and Methods. IARC Scientific Publications No. 95, Lyon, France

1991, pp. 246-57.

Published Letters and Abstracts:

Marrett LD, Pichora E, Spinks MT, Rosen CF. Correlates of spending extended time in the sun and not practicing sun

protection: results from the Second National (Canadian) Sun Survey. Am J Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-S316

(Abstract#149).

Bahl S, Nishri D, Theis B, Marrett LD. Changing cancer prevalence in Ontario, Canada: a growing burden. Am J

Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-S316 (Abstract#151).

Wong J, Knight JA, Blackmore KM, Raboud JM, Lee T, Vieth R, Marrett LD, Cole DEC. Determinants of 25-

Hydroxyvitamin D in a multiethnic population in Toronto: a pilot study. Am J Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-

S316 (Abstract#453).

Theis B, Raut R, Irving H, Marrett LD. Interprovincial physical activity rankings vary with activity domain. Am J

Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-S316 (Abstract#642).

Nahm S, Marrett LD, Corey P, Chambers D, McLaughlin J. Father`s preconceptional exposure to ionizing radiation and

congenital anomalies in their offspring. Am J Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-S316 (Abstract#766-S).

Candido E, Marrett L. Neighbourhood income and subsite-specific colorectal cancer incidence in Ontario, Canada,

1990-2006. Am J Epidemio 2011;173(Supplment):S1-S316 (Abstract#1046).

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Marrett LD, Pichora E, Waller B, Spinks M, Rosen C, Northrup D, Rhainds M. Sun behaviour in Canadian children.

Am J Epidemiol 2008;167(Supplment):S1-S147 (Abstract#251).

Chiu M, Marrett LD. Use of tanning equipment and risk of multiple melanoma in Ontario, Canada: a case-multiple-case

study for the GEM study. Am J Epidemiol 2007;165(Supplment):S98 (Abstract #392).

Marrett LD, Nishri ED, Green, B. Cancer survival in Ontario First Nations People: another health disadvantage?”. Am J

Epidemiol 2006; 163(Supplement):S1-S258 (Abstract #653).

Marrett LD, Demers A. Chronic disease in Canadian Aboriginal populations: current issues. Am J Epidemiol 2006;

163(Supplment):S1-S258 (Abstract #656).

Agha MM, Williams JI, Marrett LD. Congenital abnormalities and childhood cancer a prospective cohort record

linkage study. Cancer 2006;106:1419. (Letter to the Editor).

Do MT, Marrett LD, Demers PA, Payne J, Chaudhry R, Pichora E. Asbestos and pleural cancer in Canada. Am J

Epidemiol 2005; 161(Supplement):S152 (Abstract#088-S).

Nishri D, Marrett LD, Bahl S, Theis B. Thyroid cancer in Ontario: exploring incidence trends. Am J Epidemiol 2005;

161(Supplement):S17 (Abstract#063).

Marrett LD, Nishri D, Green B, Jones C. The Burden of cancer in Ontario First Nations People, 1968-2001. Am J

Epidemiol 2005; 161(Supplement):S152 (Abstract#079).

Ghadaki H, McKeown-Eyssen, Marrett L, Escobar M. Response bias from failure to provide a blood sample among

participants in the Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry. Am J Epidemiol 2005;

161(Supplement):S152 (Abstract#436-S).

Marrett LD. Book Review: Prevention of Skin Cancer. Cancer Causes and Control 2004;15:329-30.

Marrett LD, Nguyen H, Armstrong B. Melanoma incidence trends: New South Wales, Australia, 1983-1996. Am J

Epidemiol 2001; 153 (Supplement):S182 (Abstract #660).

Marrett LD, Weersink R, Purdue M, Lilge L, Walter S. Validation of self-reported skin color by reflectance

spectroscopy. Am J Epidemiol 2001; 153 (Supplement):S87 (Abstract #279).

Theis B, Frood J, Nishri D, Marrett L. Evaluating a risk factor survey questionnaire. Am J Epidemiol 2005; Am J


Purdue MP, Marrett LD, Peters L, Rivers JK. Predictors of sunburn in Canadian adults. Am J Epidemiol 2001; 153

(Supplement):S79 (Abstract #247).

Chaudhry MR, Marrett LD. Cancer incidence, mortality and survival among Status Indians in Ontario, 1968-1991. Am

J Epidemiol 2001; 153 (Supplement):S40 (Abstract #90).

Bienefeld MK, Marrett LD, Cole D, McLaughlin JR. Reproductive health effects of occupational exposure to low-level

ionizing radiation among Canadian women. Am J Epidemiol 2001; 153 (Supplement):S127 (Abstract #440).

Chiarelli AM, Marrett LD. Reproductive outcomes in females following treatment for childhood cancer. Am J


Chiarelli AM, Marrett LD. Reproductive outcomes in females following treatment for childhood cancer. Paediatric and

Perinatal Epidemiology 1996; 10:A21-A63 (Abstract).

Walter SD, Birnie SE, Marrett LD, Taylor SM. Walter and colleagues respond. Am J Pub Health 1996; 86:746-747

(Letter to the Editor).

Clarke EA, Darlington G, Holowaty, EJ, Kreiger N, Marrett LD, McLaughlin J, Parkes R, Sloan M and Theis E.

Confidentiality and research. Can Med Assoc J 1993; 149:792 (Letter to the Editor).

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Marrett LD, Dodds L, Meigs JW. Use of analgesics and risks of lower urinary tract tumors. Am J Epidemiol 1986;

124:531-2 (Abstract).

Meigs J, Marrett L, Ulrich F. Bladder tumor incidence among workers exposed to benzidine. Am J Epidemiol 1985;

122:520 (Abstract).

Marrett LD, Meigs JW. The epidemiology of lower urinary tract tumours. Am J Epidemiol 1983; 118:440 (Abstract).

Marrett LD. The incidence of localized and advanced cancer of the corpus uteri in Connecticut, 1964-1978, in relation

to trends in consumption and modes of action of exogenous estrogens. Am J Epidemiol 1981; 114:440 (Abstract).

Marrett LD. Probability window analysis. J Occup Med 1979; 21:592 (Letter to the Editor).

Elwood JM, Marrett LD, Meigs JW, Flannery JT. Recent trends in the incidence of and mortality from endometrial

cancer in Connecticut. Am J Epidemiol 1977; 106:240 (Abstract).

Other Publications - Cancer Surveillance

Young S, Candido E, Theis B, Marrett L. Cancer Risk Factors in Ontario: Alcohol. Cancer Care Ontario. Toronto,

Canada, 2014.

Candido E, Haque M, Theis B, Marrett L. Cancer Risk Factors in Ontario: Tobacco. Cancer Care Ontario. Toronto,

Canada, 2014.

Candido E, Theis B, Marrett L, Navaranjan G, Del Bianco A, Demers PA. Cancer Risk Factors: Evidence Summary.

Cancer Care Ontario. Toronto, Canada, 2013.

Bahl S, Theis B, Nishri D, Chin Cheong, S, Marrett, L. Cancer in Ontario: Overview. A Statistical Report. Cancer Care

Ontario. Toronto, Canada, 2010.

Marrett, LD and the Members of the Ontario Sun Safety Working Group, 2009. Insight on Cancer #8: Sun exposure and

protective behaviours in Ontario. Toronto: Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 2010 Vol 8.

Theis B, Nishri D, Bahl S, Ugnat AM, Marrett LD. Cancer in Young Adults in Canada. Cancer Care Ontario: Toronto,

2006.

Marrett LD, Innes I, Howlett, R, Cotterchio, M. Insight on Cancer #5: News and information on cervical cancer.

Toronto: Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 2005.

Marrett LD, Roberts M, eds. Insight on Cancer news and information on nutrition and cancer prevention: Supplement

#2: Ontario’s food security and cancer prevention. Toronto: Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 2005.

Marrett LD, Roberts M, eds. Insight on Cancer news and information on nutrition and cancer prevention: Supplement

#1: vegetable and fruit intake. Toronto: Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 2005.

Theis B, Bahl S, Nishri, D, Marrett LD, Evans WK. Colorectal cancer in Ontario: update on incidence and mortality,

survival, prevention, screening and treatment. Ont Med Rev 2004; 71:48-50.

Theis B, Bahl S, Nishri D, Marrett LD, Evans WK. Insight on Cancer #3: News and information on colorectal cancer.


Marrett LD, Jones C, Wishart K. First Nations Cancer Research and Surveillance Priorities for Canada, Workshop

Report. Cancer Care Ontario (Toronto), 2004.

Marrett LD, Roberts M, Innes M. Insight on Cancer #2: News and information on nutrition and cancer prevention:

results from an Ontario-wide Survey. Toronto: Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 2003.

Marrett LD, Theis B, Nishri D, Bahl S, Paszat L. Insight on Cancer News and information on prostrate cancer. Ont Med

Rev 2003; 70:20-22.

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Marrett LD, Theis B, Nishri D, Bahl S, Paszat L. Insight on Cancer #1: News and Information on prostate cancer.


Marrett LD. Cancer incidence in young adults (special topic). In: National Cancer Institute of Canada. Canadian

Cancer Statistics 2002. Toronto: NCIC; 2002. p.63-72.

Marrett LD, Chiarelli AM, Nishri ED, Theis B. Cervical cancer in Ontario, 1971-1996. Toronto: Cancer Care Ontario,

April 1999.

Holowaty EJ, Marrett LD, Parkes R, Fehringer G. Colorectal cancer in Ontario, 1971-1996. Toronto: Cancer Care

Ontario, October 1998.

Ontario Sun Safety Working Group. Sun exposure and protective behaviours: Ontario report 1998. Toronto: Canadian

Cancer Society (Ontario Division), 1998.

Le N, Marrett LD, Robson DL, Semenciw RM, Turner D, Walter SD (Working group on geographic surveillance).

Canadian cancer incidence atlas. Vol. 1: Canadian cancer incidence. Canada Communication Group-Publishing,

Ottawa, 1996.

Holowaty EJ, Marrett LD, Fehringer G. Cancer incidence in Ontario: Trends and regional variations in the 1980s.

Toronto: Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, 1995.

Marrett LD, Nishri ED, Swift MB, Walter SD, Holowaty EJ. Geographic distribution of cancer in Ontario Vol. II: Atlas

of cancer incidence, 1980-1991. Toronto: Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, 1995.

Marrett LD, Swift MB, Reynolds DL, Clarke EA. Geographic distribution of cancer in Ontario Vol. 1: Atlas of cancer

mortality 1976-1985, OCTRF, Toronto, 1991.

Nguyen VC, Marrett LD, Clarke EA, Corringham RET. Cancer mortality in Northeastern Ontario, 1974-1983. Chronic

Dis Can 1990; 11:7-10.

Clarke EA, Marrett LD, Kreiger N. Twenty Years of Cancer Incidence in Ontario, 1964-1983. Ontario Cancer

Treatment and Research Foundation, Toronto, 1987.

Other Publications:

Ritchie AJ, Marrett LD. Exploring why survival upon breast cancer diagnosis is poorer among First Nations women of

Ontario compared to other Ontario woman. Alaska Med. 2007;49(2 Suppl):95-8.

Marrett LD, Broadhurst D, Charron S, Fraser L, From L, Hunter W, Payne P, Yarema ML, Rosen C. The Ontario

Sun Safety Working Group. Chronic Dis Can 2003;24:27-31.

Ing SY, Ashbury FD, Marrett LD, From L, Perry KV. Use of focus group methodology in the development of an

Ontario farmers’ sun safety survey. Chronic Dis Can 2002;23:65-70.

Friedenreich C, Marrett LD, Members of the Canadian Breast Cancer Initiative Working Group on Primary

Prevention of Breast Cancer, and an Expert Panel. Workshop report: Identification of research needs in breast cancer

etiology. Chronic Dis Can 2001;22:41-49.

Marrett LD, ed. Proceedings of the 1993 Cancer Epidemiology Seminar. Chronic Diseases in Canada 1994;15:1,

Supplement.

Walter SD, Birnie SE, Marrett LD. Proceedings of Statistics Canada Symposium 91: Spatial Issues in Statistics.

Statistics Canada, Ottawa, 1992.

Marrett LD, ed. Proceedings of the 1992 Cancer Epidemiology Seminar. Chronic Diseases in Canada 1992; 13:6,

Supplement.

Marrett LD, ed. Proceedings of the 1991 Cancer Epidemiology Seminar. OCTRF, Toronto, 1992.

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Marrett LD, ed. Proceedings of the 1990 Cancer Epidemiology Seminar, OCTRF, Toronto, 1990.

Heath C, Kagey B, Kanarek M, Mandel J, Marrett L, Stark A, VanOostdem J, Vena J.

Report of work group on epidemiology at the Workshop to Evaluate Risks to Human Health Associated with Exposure

to Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario April, 16-18 1989. In: Flint RW,

Vena J, eds. Evaluating Risks to Human Health Associated with Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes Basin

Ecosystem. State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, 1989, pp. 109-28.

Clarke EA, Kreiger N, Marrett LD. Cancer incidence, mortality and treatment in Ontario. In: Cancer in Ontario, 1987.

The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, pp. 179-98, 1988.





Clarke EA, Kreiger N, Marrett LD, Soskolne CL. Cancer incidence, mortality and treatment in Ontario. In: Cancer in

Ontario, 1984. The Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, pp. 157-86, 1885.





Marrett LD. Chapter 3: Sampling. In: Pool JS, Pool DI. Contraception and Health Care among Young Canadian

Women. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, 1978.

Pool JE, Marrett LD, Last JM. A survey of female health and reproductive behaviour in Ottawa. In: Larsen DE, Love

EJ, eds. Health Care Research: A Symposium. University of Calgary Offset Printing Services, 1974.

Unpublished Reports:

Holness DL, Marrett LD. Expert Panel Report to the Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health on Screening

Guidelines for Asbestos-Related Disease. 2006. St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Cancer Care Ontario.

Waller B, Marrett LD. The Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Project (final report of the joint Cancer

Care Ontario and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board project), Toronto, Ontario, December 2005.

Marrett LD, Theis Beth, Nishri D, Frood J. Cancer in young adults in Canada (CYAC): Workshop II. (Final Report to

Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, May 2002).

Marrett LD, Frood J. Cancer in young adults in Canada (CYAC). (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario,

January 2001).

Ultraviolet Radiation Working Group of the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition. A survey and recommendations of

current sun-safety policies and programs. (Final Report to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Toronto,

Ontario, December 2000).

Marrett LD. Information systems for cervical cancer screening programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Final

Report to Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, April 2000).

Marrett LD. Validation of self-reported skin colour: A pilot study. (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario,

March 2000).

Marrett LD, Purdue M. Report on analysis of Ontario data from the 1996 National Survey on Sun Exposure and

Protective Behaviours. (Final Report to both Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, and Environment Canada, Toronto,

Ontario, March 26, 1999).

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Marrett LD. 1998 National Workshop on Measurement of Sun-related Behaviours. Background paper on Phenotype.

(Prepared for the 1998 National Workshop on Measurement of Sun-related Behaviours, Vancouver, B.C., October

1998).

Marrett LD. Information system for cervical cancer screening programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. (Interim

Report to Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, April 1998).

Goel V, Nishri D, Marrett LD, Chiarelli A, Osborne R. Assessing the impact of various screening-related strategies

on cervical cancer incidence: A decision analysis. (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, March 31,

1998).

Marrett LD, Nishri D, Theis B, Goel V, Majpruz V. Geographic variation in cervical cancer incidence in Canada:

An ecological analysis. (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, March 31, 1998).

Marrett LD, Chaudhry M, Majpruz V. Analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data in Ontario Aboriginals.

(Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, March 1998).

Goel V, Marrett LD, Chiarelli A. Assessing the costs and benefits of cervical cancer screening strategies in Canada.

(Report prepared for the Preventive Health Services Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, January 8, 1998).

Marrett LD, Dixit R, Theis B, Green B, Spalding R, Majpruz V, Joshi S, Nishri D. Pilot project to create an Ontario

cervical screening information and reporting system (OCSIRS). (Final Report to the Ontario Cervical Screening

Collaborative Group, Toronto, Ontario, October 1997).

Marrett LD, Tenzif S. A pilot study of the use of sunlamps and tanning beds. (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa,

Ontario, September 12, 1996).

Marrett LD, Chaudhry R, Fair M, Wilkins R, Weir E. The study of the feasibility of linking census occupation data and

the Ontario Cancer Registry and mortality data base. (Report to the Occupational Diseases Panel, Ontario Ministry of

Labour, Toronto, Ontario, 1996).

Walter SD, Marrett LD, Taylor SM, King D. Determinants of regional variation in cancer incidence. (Final Report to

Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, December 8, 1995).

Theis B, Marrett LD, Goel V, Elit E. Evaluation proposal, Ontario Cervical Screening Information and Reporting

System (OCSIRS). (Final Report to Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, December 1995).

Marrett LD, Sloan P, Toogood P, Hunter G, Wojcik A, Prowse T. Final Report for Incidence of Cancer in First Nations

in Ontario, 1966-1991. (Final Report to the Ministry of Health, Toronto, Ontario, May 5, 1995).

Marrett LD, Weir E. The accuracy of residence data in the Ontario Cancer Registry: Further investigations of Frontenac

County Data, 1988. (Final Report to Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, November 23, 1992).

Marrett LD, Weir E. Occupation and cancer in Ontario: Review of the options for establishing a cancer occupation

database for Ontario. (Report to the Industrial Disease Standards Panel, Ontario Ministry of Labour, Toronto, Ontario,

1989).

Clarke EA, Holowaty E, Kreiger N, Marrett LD, McLaughlin J. Research report of the Division of Epidemiology and

Statistics, Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. (Report to the Research Advisory Panel, OCTRF,

November 1988).

Marrett LD. Stage-specific trends in the incidence of cancer of the corpus uteri in Connecticut and Utah, 1966-1979.

(1983)

Meigs JW, Marrett LD, Ulrich FU. Bladder cancer mortality among workers exposed to benzidine-exposed workers.

(Report to the Upjohn Company, Fine Chemicals Division, North Haven, Ct, 1981).

Marrett LD, Flannery JT. Estimates of the time trends in mortality from cancer of the uterine cervix and corpus,

Connecticut, 1935-1969 (1979).

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Marrett LD. Mortality amongst incident cases of bladder cancer - A summary. (Connecticut Tumor Registry,

1950-1968) (1977).

Marrett LD. Birth Cohort trends in neuroblastoma diagnosed in children - A summary. (Connecticut Tumor Registry,

1940-1975) (1977).

Invited Presentations:

“Cancer surveillance in Indigenous populations: What do we know and what are the gaps and challenges?”

Presented by Loraine Marrett at the annual NAACCR conference. Ottawa, Ontario. June 21-16 2014.

“Ultraviolet radiation and cutaneous melanoma: an etiologic journey”, presented by Loraine Marrett at the Canadian

Cancer Research Conference, Toronto, November 28, 2011.

“Mesothelioma in Ontario: past, present and future”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Occupational Cancer

Research Centre (OCRC), Toronto, March 23, 2010.

“First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Data Indicators Pilot Project”, presented by Lindsay Stewart, Caroline Lidstone-Jones,

Loraine Marrett, Alison McMullen, Carol Rand, Colleen Lynas, Lee Styres Loft, Diane Nishri and Lishen Zhou at the

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Aboriginal Chronic Disease Surveillance Workshop, Toronto, February 10,

2010.

“Team networks in Surveillance and Epidemiology”, presented at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics (CSEB) and Association of Public Health Epidemiologist of Ontario (APHEO) 2009 Joint Conference,

Ottawa, Ontario, May 25-28, 2009.

“Occupational Cancer Research Centre: a partnership for the prevention of occupational cancer”, presented at the

Canadian Cancer Society Ontario Division Community Development Managers Meeting, Toronto, May 25, 2009.

“Ontario First Nations Cancer Patterns”, presented (via teleconference) at the Aboriginal Cancer Care Unit (ACCU)

Regional Rounds, Juravinski Cancer Centre, May 12, 2009.

“Cancer in Ontario’s Aboriginal Populations: What do we know?”, presented at the Aboriginal Primary Care

Engagement Forum, Toronto, March 25, 2009.

“Occupational cancer research: future directions”, presented at the University of Toronto Epidemiology Seminar Series,

Toronto, January 14, 2009.

“Sun safety: a focus on skin cancer”, presented at the PH Standards Unit Workshop, Toronto, November 18, 2008.

“Development of an Occupational Cancer Research Centre in Ontario”, presented at the Provincial Cancer Prevention

and Screening Council Meeting, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, June 20, 2008.

“Sun exposure, tanning and protective behaviours: how are we doing?”, presented at the Canadian Partnership Against

Cancer and National Skin Cancer Prevention Committee Consultation, Toronto, May 22-23, 2008.

“Cancer in Aboriginal Ontarians: A new public health issue?”, presented at the University of Western Ontario,

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar Series, February 15, 2008.

“A cancer surveillance system for Ontario First Nations people: strengths and limitations”, presented at the First Nations

Surveillance Roundtable, Ottawa, Ontario, May 23, 2007.

“Is cancer an important public health issue in Ontario’s Aboriginal populations?”, presented at the University of Toronto

Epidemiology Seminar Series, Toronto, January 31, 2007.

“Epidemiology of cutaneous malignant melanoma: current understandings and unanswered questions”, presented at the

2nd

Annual Canadian Melanoma Conference, Banff, Alberta, March 2-5, 2006.

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

“Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Project (OCP): workshop follow-up and future directions”, presented

at the Occupational Health and Safety Council of Ontario (OHSCO) Committee Meeting, Ontario Service Safety

Alliance, Toronto, Ontario, September 20, 2005.

“Cancer in Young Adults in Canada: An overview”, presented at the Young Adult Cancer Survivor Study Workshop,

Dalhousie University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 22-23, 2005.

“Systematic review of the occupation of firefighting and cancer risk”, presented at the Workplace Safety and Insurance

Board, Research Speaker Series for staff, Toronto, Ontario, June 16, 2005.

“What we know about ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer: Implications for artificial tanning “, presented at the

Artificial Tanning Symposium: Myths and Realities, London, Ontario, April 5, 2005.

“Burden of Cancer in First Nations People”, presented at the Network for Cancer Control Research Among

American Indian and Alaska Native Populations (NETWORK), National Cancer Institute, Washington, D.C., April

4, 2005.

“CAREX as a tool for surveillance of workplace carcinogens”, presented at the Sudbury Epidemiology Discussion

Group, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, October 14, 2004.

“Burden of Cancer in Ontario First Nations People”, presented at the Sudbury Epidemiology Discussion Group,

Sudbury Regional Hospital, Sudbury, October 14, 2004.

“Epidemiology of Skin Cancer”, presented at the Canadian Cancer Society staff, Toronto, June 28, 2004 (and to

numerous other health professional groups).

“Cancer in Canada’s First Nations people”, presented at the Ground Rounds, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Northern

Territories, Australia, June 15, 2004.

“Epidemiology of Skin Cancer”, presented at the Canadian Cancer Society Ontario Division All Staff Meeting, Toronto,

April 8, 2004.

“Nutrition and Cancer”, presented at Thunder Bay Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society, Thunder Bay, March 2004.

“Epidemiology of Skin Cancer”, presented at Public Health Education Days, Toronto, December 5, 2003.

“First Nations Cancer Research and Surveillance Workshop”, presented at the First Nations Workshop, Ottawa,

September 23-24, 2003.

“Early-life Sun Exposure: Development of an instrument for long-term recall”, presented at the Skin Cancer Prevention

Grantees Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 31-August 1, 2003.

“Insight on Cancer: A new Ontario cancer surveillance initiative”, presented at the Joint Preventive Oncology

Seminar Series, Cancer Care Ontario-University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, March 19, 2003.

“Skin cancer and ultraviolet radiation”, presented at the Institute for Environmental Studies/Gage Occupational &

Environmental Health Unit’s Environment & Health Seminar Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,

February 6, 2003 (with C Rosen).

“The GEM Study”, presented at the Ontario Familial Colon Cancer Registry’s Education Day, Toronto, Ontario, July

3, 2002.

“Ontario Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Survey”, presented at the Cancer Care Ontario Nutrition Consultation

Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, March 21-22, 2002.

“Congenital anomalies in the offspring of Ontario uranium miners”, presented at the Canadian Children’s Environmental

Health Research Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, March 17-19, 2002.

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April 2014

“Cancer in Ontario’s First Nations people: A population-based study, 1966-91”, presented at the Northeastern Ontario

Family Medicine Program Grand Rounds: First Nations Health, Sudbury, Ontario, March 7, 2002.

“Do young adults have a special role in cancer surveillance? The Cancer in Young Adults in Canada (CYAC) project”,

presented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2001 Cancer Conference, Atlanta, Georgia,

September 4-7, 2001.

”Cancer in Canadian Aboriginals: A population-based study in Ontario’s First Nations People”, presented at the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2001 Cancer Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, September 4-7, 2001.

“Cancer in Canadian First Nations People: A population-based study in Ontario”, presented at the North American

Association of Central Cancer Registries, Miami Beach, Florida, June 3-9, 2001.

“Epidemiology of skin cancer”, presented at the Ministry of Health Education Day, Toronto, Ontario, May 1, 2001 (with

D Broadhurst and L From).

“Burden of cancer in Ontario’s Aboriginal people: What do we know?”, presented at Cancer Care Ontario’s Preventive

Oncology Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, April 24, 2001.

“Epidemiology of skin cancer”, presented at the Canada Post National Seminar on Workers’ Compensation, Toronto,

Ontario, March 23, 2001 (with L From).

“Epidemiology of melanoma of the skin: Controversies and issues”, presented at the Toronto Dermatological Society’s

22nd

Post Graduate Dermatology Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, October 6, 2000.

“The sun and skin cancer: Are we making progress?”, presented at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre

Oncology Grand Rounds, Toronto, Ontario, May 17, 2000.

“Skin cancer and ultraviolet radiation”, presented at the Institute for Environmental Studies/Gage Occupational &

Environmental Health Unit’s Environment & Health Seminar Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario,

March 30, 2000 (with C Rosen).

“Melanoma of the skin and ultraviolet radiation: Some priorities for etiologic research”, presented at the Cancer

Control Seminar Series, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, May 18, 1999.

“Use of capture-recapture methods to estimate completeness of cancer registration”, presented at the “Maximizing Our

Potential” Workshop, Ottawa, May 12-13, 1999 (with ED Nishri).

“Melanoma of the skin and ultraviolet radiation: Some priorities for etiologic research”, presented at the Alberta Cancer

Board, Calgary, Alberta, March 4-5, 1999.

“Reproductive outcomes in females following treatment for childhood cancer”, presented at The New South Wales

Cancer Council, Sydney, Australia, July 7, 1998.

“Reproductive outcomes in females following treatment for childhood cancer”, presented at The Menzies Centre for

Population Health Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, June 18, 1998.

“Some recent cancer research in Ontario, Canada”, presented at The Menzies Centre for Population Health Research,

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, June 17, 1998.

“Skin cancer and ultraviolet radiation”, presented at the Joint Environment and Health Seminar Series, Gage

Occupational and Environmental Health Unit, Toronto, March 26, 1998.

"Epidemiology of gynaecologic cancer: quantifying the risk", presented at the 14th Annual Ottawa Reproductive

Biology Workshop, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, June 3, 1995.

"Issues and methods in mapping Ontario cancer incidence data", presented at the Conjoint Evaluative Sciences Rounds

of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit/Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies (Sunnybrook Health Science Centre),

Toronto, May 17, 1995.

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April 2014

"Cancer incidence in Ontario Indians", presented to the Department of Epidemiology and Statistics at the Ontario

Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, April 12, 1995.

"Cancer incidence in First Nations in Ontario", presented to the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the

University of Western Ontario, London, March 31, 1995.

"Non-solar source of ultraviolet radiation and cutaneous malignant melanoma", presented at the Symposium on

UVR-related health effects, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, March 24, 1992.

"A survey and critique of disease atlases from around the world", presented at the Statistics Canada Symposium on

Spatial Issues in Statistics, Ottawa, November 13, 1991.

"Non solar sources of ultraviolet radiation and cutaneous malignant melanoma", presented at the International

Symposium on the Epidemiology of Malignant Melanoma, Vancouver, B.C., October 23, 1991.

"Use of capture-recapture methods to estimate completeness of cancer registration", presented at the annual conference

of the American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Bethesda, MD, USA, March 15, 1991.

"Linkage of cancer and occupation", presented at the Occupational Health Section, Ontario Medical Association,

Toronto, June 9, 1990.

"The Etiology of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma: Some preliminary results from a case-control study in Southern

Ontario", presented at LCDC, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, March 27, 1990.

"Record Linkage in Epidemiology: A study of congenital anomalies in the offspring of Cancer Patients", presented at

Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, November 7, 1989.

"Preliminary Results from a Case-Control Study of Renal Cell Carcinoma in Ontario", presented at Uro-Oncology

Rounds, OCTRF Toronto-Bayview Regional Cancer Centre Toronto, October 6, 1989.

"Epidemiology and Cancer", presented at Women's College Hospital Pathology Rounds, Toronto, May 5, 1987.

"Issues in the Design and Conduct of Case-control Studies", presented at the Bureau of Non-communicable Disease

Epidemiology, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa, February 10, 1987.

"Bladder Tumour Incidence among Workers Exposed to Benzidine", presented at Occupational Health Rounds,

McMaster University, Hamilton, March 5, 1986.

"Epidemiologic Research Using the Ontario Cancer Registry", presented at the NHRDP 10th Anniversary Scientific

Meeting, Ottawa, December 3, 1985.

"The Ontario Cancer Registry: Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality", presented at Regional Oncology Rounds,

Ontario Cancer Foundation, Hamilton Clinic, Hamilton, April 18, 1985.

"The Cancer Problem in Ontario", presented at the Terry Fox Cancer Prevention Workshop, Royal York Hotel, Toronto,

April 9, 1985.

"The Epidemiology of Malignant Melanoma", presented as part of a Medical Rounds on "Nevi and Malignant

Melanoma" St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, March 25, 1985.

"The Epidemiology of Lower Urinary Tract Tumours", presented at the Short Course on Statistical Methods in

Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, June 28, 1983.

"The National Survey of Environment and Health: An Overview of Methods and Connecticut Results", presented to the

Madison Rotary Club, November 12, 1981.

"Recent Trends in the Incidence and Mortality of Corpus Uteri Cancer in Connecticut", presented at the meeting of

SEER group participants, Washington, D.C., June 1977.

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April 2014

Other Presentations:

“Creation of new sun safety messages for Canada”, presented at Public Health 2014 (Canadian Public Health

Association (CPHA) annual conference), Toronto, May 26-29, 2014.

“Reducing inequalities in cancer survival for Ontario First Nations: from surveillance to action”, presented at Public

Health 2014 (Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) annual conference), Toronto, May 26-29, 2014.

Cancer surveillance in Ontario’s Aboriginal peoples: Challenges and rewards. Presented at the annual IACR

conference. Ottawa, Ontario. June 26-28 2014.

Reducing inequalities in cancer survival for Ontario First Nations: A journey from surveillance to action. Presented

at the annual NAACCR conference. Ottawa, Ontario. June 21-26 2014

“Cancer Survival among First Nations people of Ontario, Canada”, presented at Spirit of Eagles’ conference,

Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2013.

“Creation of new sun safety messages for Canada”, presented at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Toronto.

November 4, 2013. [oral poster presentation]

“Revisiting sun safety messages for Ontario, Canada”. Second International UV and Skin Cancer Prevention

Conference. Berlin, Germany. September 11-13, 2013.

“Cervical cancer incidence in Ontario women: Implications of differing socioeconomic gradients by morphologic

subtype”. Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Biannual Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland, June

2013.

“Cervical cancer incidence in Ontario women: Implications of differing socioeconomic gradients by morphologic

subtype”. International Cancer Screening Network. Sydney, Australia. October 25 2012.

“Geographic variation in thyroid cancer incidence in Ontario, Canada: 2003-2007”, presented by Elisa Candido, L

Marrett, Diane Nishri and Anna Sawka at the North American Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual

Meeting, Portland, Oregon, June 1-8, 2012.

“Linking the 1991 census to the Canadian cancer registry to advance knowledge about cancer in First Nations and Métis

adults in Canada”, presented by Loraine Marrett, Diana Withrow and Michael Tjepkema at the North American

Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, June 1-8, 2012.

“The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s Surveillance & Epidemiology networks: Knowledge translation in the

colorectal cancer network”, presented by Beth Theis, Elisa Candido, Caroline Silverman, Loraine Marrett, Katherine

Fradette and Donna Turner at the North American Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual Meeting,

Quebec, Ontario, June 19-25, 2010.

“The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s (the Partnership’s) surveillance and epidemiology networks: Investigating

the quality of cancer registry data in Canada Part II: Comparability”, presented by Elisa Candido, Beth Theis, Diane

Nishri, Loraine Marrett, Juanita Hatcher, Mengzhe Wang, Donna Turner and Kathleen Fradette at the North American

Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual Meeting, Quebec, Ontario, June 19-25, 2010.

“The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s (the Partnership’s) surveillance and epidemiology networks: colorectal

cancer in Ontario by anatomic subsite”, presented by Roxana Raut, Diane Nishri, Beth Theis and Loraine Marrett at the

North American Association of Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual Meeting, Quebec, Ontario, June 19-25, 2010.

“Asbestos and mesothelioma in Ontario”, presented at the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health

(CARWH) 2010 Conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 29, 2010.

“Ionizing radiation exposure and risk non-lung cancers – a study of the Ontario uranium miners”, presented by Minh T.

Do, Loraine Marrett, James Purdham, Wendy Lou, Jennifer Payne at the Canadian Association for Research on Work

and Health (CARWH) 2010 Conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 29, 2010.

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April 2014

“Cancer Surveillance: user-friendly reporting to health professionals”, presented by Beth Theis, Saira Bahl, Sandrene

Ching Cheong, Erin Pichora, Diane Nishri, G Fehringer and Loraine Marrett at the North American Association of

Central Registries (NAACCR) Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, June 13-19, 2009.

“Implementation of the 2007 multiple primary and histology rules in Ontario, Canada: assessing the impact”, presented

by Loraine Marrett, Brian Gabor, Mary Jane King, Diane Nishri, Jin Niu, Margaret Sloan and Beth Theis at the 31st

Annual Meeting of the International Association of Cancer Registries, New Orleans, USA, June 3-5, 2009.

“A Canadian surveillance network for colorectal cancer: standardizing and capacity building”, presented by Beth

Theis and Loraine Marrett at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) and Association of

Public Health Epidemiologist of Ontario (APHEO) 2009 Joint Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 25-28, 2009.

“Identifying predictors of sunburn among Canadian adults”, presented by Erin Pichora, Michael Spinks, Cheryl Rosen

and Loraine Marrett at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) and Association of Public

Health Epidemiologist of Ontario (APHEO) 2009 Joint Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 25-28, 2009.

“Changing incidence of esophageal cancer subtypes in relation to changing prevalence of risk factors in Ontario”,

presented by Saira Bahl, Loraine Marrett, Beth Theis and Diane Nishri at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and



“Melanoma incidence and mortality trends among young adults in Ontario, Canada (1970-2004): boom or bust?,

presented by Michelle Costa and Loraine Marrett at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB)

and Association of Public Health Epidemiologist of Ontario (APHEO) 2009 Joint Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May

25-28, 2009.

“Melanoma incidence and mortality trends among young adults in Ontario, Canada (1970-2004): boom or bust?,

presented by Michelle Costa and Loraine Marrett at the 2009 Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics’

(CSEB) National Student Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 23-24, 2009.

“Use of tanning equipment and risk of multiple primary melanoma: why is Australia different?”, presented at the

Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) and Association of Public Health Epidemiologist of

Ontario (APHEO) 2009 Joint Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 25-28, 2009.

“Breast Cancer Survival in Ontario First Nations Women: understanding the determinants”, presented by A.J.

Sheppard, Anna Chiarelli, Loraine Marrett,, Maureen Trudeau and Diane Nishri at the Canadian Public Health

Association Conference: Public Health in Canada: Strengthening Connections. Winnipeg, Canada. June 7-10, 2009.

“Ionizing radiation exposure and risk of gastrointestinal cancers: a study of Ontario uranium miners”, presented by Minh

Do, Loraine Marrett, Jim Purdham, Wendy Lou and Jennifer Payne at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and



“Ionizing radiation exposure and risk of gastrointestinal cancers: a study of Ontario uranium miners”, presented by Minh

Do, Loraine Marrett, Jim Purdham, Wendy Lou and Jennifer Payne at the 2009 Canadian Society of Epidemiology and

Biostatistics’ (CSEB) National Student Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 23-24, 2009.

“Trends in thyroid cancer incidence in Ontario, Canada: 1985-2004”, presented by Elisa Candido and Loraine Marrett at

the 2009 Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics’ (CSEB) National Student Conference, Ottawa, Ontario,

May 23-24, 2009.

“Ontario First Nations Cancer Patterns”, presented at the Aboriginal Breast Cancer Care Workshop, Toronto, Ontario,

April 27-28, 2009.

“Skin cancer and the National Sun Survey”, presented at the Preventive Oncology Seminar, Cancer Care Ontario,

Toronto, September 23, 2008.

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

“Distribution of vitamin D action spectrum-weighted UV irradiance over North America”, poster presentation by V. E.

Fioletov, L.J.B. McArthur, T.W. Mathews, N. Krotkov, J.R. Herman and L.D. Marrett at the Quadrennial Ozone

Symposium, Tromso, Norway, 2008.

“Sun behaviour in Canadian children”, poster presentation by Loraine Marrett, Erin Pichora, Bronwen Waller, Michael

Spinks, Cheryl Rosen, David Northrup and Marc Rhainds at the 41st Annual Society of Epidemiologic Research (SER)

Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, June 24-27, 2008.

“The Second National Sun Survey (2006): an overview of methods and content”, presented at the Canadian Partnership

Against Cancer and National Skin Cancer Prevention Committee Consultation, Toronto, May 22-23, 2008.

“A study design to explore the determinants of breast cancer survival in Ontario’s First Nations women”, poster

presentation by Amanda J. Ritchie, Anna M. Chiarelli, Loraine Marrett, Maureen E. Trudeau and Diane Nishri at the

Joint Ontario Aboriginal Cancer Care (JOACC) Meeting, Toronto, May 6-7, 2008.

“Colorectal cancer in Ontario First Nations people: A growing public health issue”, presented by Loraine Marrett, Diane

Nishri and Caroline Lidstone-Jones at the Inaugural First Nations, Inuit and Metis Research Meeting, Montreal, April

16-18, 2008.

“A study design to explore the determinants of breast cancer survival in Ontario’s First Nations women”, presented by

Amanda J. Rtichie, Anna M. Chiarelli, Loraine Marrett, Maureen E. Trudeau and Diane Nishri at the American

Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Atlanta, Georgia, November 27-30, 2007.

“Colorectal cancer in Ontario First Nations people: A growing public health issue”, presented by Loraine Marrett,

Diane Nishri and Caroline Lidstone-Jones at the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) 60th

Anniversary

Celebration: Making Connections: A Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Toronto, November 15-17, 2007.

“Changing incidence of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Ontario”, poster presentation

by Saira Bahl,, Beth Theis, Diane Nishri and Loraine Marrett at the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) 60th

Anniversary Celebration: Making Connections: A Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Toronto, November 15-

17, 2007.

“Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Study of Ontario Uranium Miners”, poster

presentation by Minh T. Do, Loraine D. Marrett, James Purdham, Jennifer I. Payne, Wendy Lou, and Nelson Chong

at the 19th International Conference on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH 2007), Banf, Alberta, October

9-12, 2007.

“The Second National Sun Survey (NSS2): development, methodology, uses & dissemination”, presented by Erin

Pichora, David Northrup, Bronwen Waller, Michael Spinks, Cheryl Rosen, Loraine Marrett at the Health Statistics Data

Users Conference 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, September 23-25, 2007.

“Overview of Second National Sun Survey Design”, presented at the Second National Sun Survey Workshop (NSS2),

Toronto, September 19, 2007.

“Preliminary NSS2 results: base sample”, presented at the Second National Sun Survey Workshop (NSS2), Toronto,

September 19, 2007.

“Sun protective behaviours in Ontario: preliminary data from the Second National Sun Survey, 2006”, presented by

Cheryl Rosen, David Northrup, Erin Pichora, Michael Spinks and Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Dermatology

Association, 82nd

Annual Conference, Toronto, July 3, 2007.

“Use of tanning equipment and risk of multiple melanoma in Ontario, Canada: a case-multiple-case study for the GEM

study”, presented by Maria Chiu, Loraine Marrett, Beth Theis at the Society of Epidemiologic Research (SER) Annual

Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, June 21, 2007.

“The 2006 National Sun Survey is used to assess Ontario’s Cancer 2020 risk reduction targets for exposure to ultraviolet

radiation”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett, David Northrup, Cheryl Rosen, Erin Pichora, Michael Spinks, Bronwen

Waller at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CSEB) Biennial Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, May 28-

31, 2007.

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

“Developing cancer risk indicators from population surveillance data”, presented by Beth Theis, Michael Spinks, Diane

Nishri and Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CSEB) Biennial Meeting,

Calgary, Alberta, May 28-31, 2007.

“Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Risk of Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Study of Ontario Uranium Miners”, presented

by Minh T. Do, Loraine D. Marrett, James Purdham, Wendy Lou, Jennifer I. Payne and Nelson Chong at the

Canadian Society of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (CSEB) Biennial Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, May 28-31, 2007.

“Is cancer an important public health issue in Ontario’s Aboriginal populations?”, presented at the University of Toronto

Epidemiology Seminar Series, Toronto, January 31, 2007.

“Survival from breast cancer in First Nations women: A research proposal to address a priority”, presented at the Joint

Cancer Care Ontario-Aboriginal Cancer Committee (JOACC), Sault Ste. Marie, October 19, 2006.

“Cancer Risk Factor Surveillance for Ontario Aboriginal populations”, presented at the Joint Cancer Care Ontario-

Aboriginal Cancer Committee (JOACC), Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, October 19, 2006.

“Cancer survival in Ontario First Nations People: another health disadvantage?”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett,

Diane Nishri and Bo Green at the 2006 Congress of Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington, June 21-24, 2006.

“A bi-national collaboration to improve cancer surveillance for Native North Americans”, presented by David Espey,

Loraine D. Marrett, Lillian Tom-Orme, Erich Kiewer, Rabia Louchini, and Nat Cobb at the North American Association

of Central Cancer Registries, Regina, Saskatoon, June 12-15, 2006.

“Chronic disease in Canadian Aboriginal populations: current issues”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett and Alain

Demers for the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) at the 2006 Congress of Epidemiology,

Seattle, Washington, June 21-24, 2006.

“Are women in Ontario increasing their risk of multiple melanoma by tanning indoors?”, presented by Maria Chiu,

Loraine Marrett, Beth Theis at the Women’s Health Graduate Student Research Day, Toronto, May 2006.

“Towards the prevention of cancer in Ontario: A baseline report on Cancer 2020 targets”, presented by Loraine Marrett,

Beth Theis, Diane Nishri and Michael Spinks at the 2005 Joint Conference of the Ontario Public Health Association and

the Association of Local Public Health Association Determining Health Through Public Health Action Conference,

Toronto, Ontario, November 22-23, 2005.

“The Artificial Approach to Skin Cancer”, presented by Ruth Sanderson, Loraine Marrett, Kaylene McKinnon, Cheryl

Rosen at the 2005 Joint Conference of the Ontario Public Health Association and the Association of Local Public Health

Association Determining Health Through Public Health Action Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 22-23, 2005.

“Development of a Canadian Sun Survey: Building on the 1996 National Sun Survey of Sun Exposure and Protective

Behaviours”, poster presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the lst International Cancer Control Congress, Vancouver,

British Columbia, October 23-26, 2005.

“The Burden of Cancer in Ontario First Nations People, 1968-2001”, poster presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the lst

International Cancer Control Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 23-26, 2005.

“Decreasing incidence of cervical adenocarcinoma in Ontario: is this related to dual specimen collection?”, poster

presented by Robbi Howlett, Loraine Marrett, Michael Innis, Barry Rosen and C. Meg McLachlin at the lst International

Cancer Control Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 23-26, 2005.

“Development of a Canadian Sun Survey: Building on the 1996 National Sun Survey of Sun Exposure and Protective

Behaviours”, poster presentation by Loraine D. Marrett, Jennifer Fergenbaum for the National Sun Safety Committee

Strategy for Cancer Control at the 6th World Melanoma Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 6-10, 2005.

“Investigating tanning equipment use and risk of multiple vs. single primary cutaneous melanoma in Ontario, Canada”,

presented by Maria Chiu, Loraine D. Marrett, Beth Theis at the 6th World Melanoma Congress, Vancouver, British

Columbia, September 6-10, 2005.

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April 2014

“The Burden of Cancer in Ontario First Nations People”, poster presentation by Loraine D. Marrett, Carmen Jones,

Diane Nishri, Bo Green at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Society of Epidemiologic

Research Joint Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June 27-30, 2005.

“Asbestos and Pleural Cancer in Canada”, poster presentation by Minh Do, Loraine D. Marrett, Jennifer Payne, Ruhee

Chaudhry, Paul and Erin Pichora at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Society of

Epidemiologic Research Joint Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June 27-30, 2005.

“Thyroid Cancer in Ontario: exploring incidence trends”, poster presentation by Diane Nishri, Loraine D. Marrett, Saira

Bahl, Beth Theis at the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Society of Epidemiologic Research

Joint Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, June 27-30, 2005.

“Response bias from failure to provide a blood sample among participants in the Ontario Familial Colorectal Cancer

Registry”, poster presentation by Ghadaki H, McKeown-Eyssen, Marrett L, Escobar M. at the Society For

Epidemiologic Research and the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Toronto, June 27-30, 2005.

“Thyroid Cancer in Ontario: exploring incidence trends”, poster presentation by Diane Nishri, Loraine D. Marrett, Saira

Bahl, Beth Theis at the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Boston, June 6-10, 2005.

“Asbestos and Pleural Cancer in Canada”, poster presentation by Minh Do, Ruhee Chaudhry, Paul Demers, Patricia

Holmes and Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH), Vancouver,

British Columbia, May 15-17, 2005.

“The Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Project”, poster presentation by Jennifer Payne, Ruhee Chaudhry,

Bronwen Waller, Erin Pichora and Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Cancer for Occupational Health and Safety

Resource (CCOHS), Toronto, Ontario, March 3-4, 2005.

“CAREX as a tool for occupational carcinogen exposure surveillance in Ontario”, poster presentation by Bronwen

Waller, Paul Demers, Jennifer Payne and Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Cancer for Occupational Health and

Safety Resource (CCOHS), Toronto, Ontario, March 3-4, 2005.

“Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Congenital Anomaly” poster presentation by Sang Nahm at the

Public Health Sciences Research Day, University of Toronto, February 25, 2005.

“An example of occupational cancer surveillance: mesothelioma in Ontario 1980-2002”, presented by Loraine D.

Marrett at the Cancer Care Ontario Occupational Cancer Surveillance Workshop, Toronto, February 1-2, 2005.

“Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in Ontario Uranium Miners and Risk of Congenital Anomaly in Offspring:

Preliminary Results” poster presented by Sang Nahm, Darrell Tomkins, Loraine D. Marrett, Douglas Chambers, Neil

Klar, John McLaughlin at the 3rd Scientific Meeting of Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Network, Ottawa,

January 9-11, 2005.

“Burden of Cancer in First Nations People”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Joint Preventive Oncology

Seminar Series, Cancer Care Ontario-University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, December 9, 2004.

“Factors associated with obesity in Ontario adults: results from the Ontario Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Survey”,

presented by Loraine D. Marrett, Melody Roberts, Mary Jo Makarchuk and Michael Innes at the 55th Annual

Conference of the Ontario Public Health Association, Toronto, Ontario, November 23-24, 2004.

“The Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Project”, poster presentation by Jennifer Payne, Ruhee Chaudhry,

Bronwen Waller, Minh Do and Loraine D. Marrett at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s Research Advisory

Council Solutions for Workplace Change Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 18, 2004.

“CAREX as a tool for occupational carcinogen exposure surveillance in Ontario”, poster presentation by Bronwen

Waller, Paul Demers, Jennifer Payne and Loraine D. Marrett at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s Research

Advisory Council Solutions for Workplace Change Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 18, 2004.

“Paternal exposure to ionizing radiation in Ontario uranium miners and the risk of congenital anomaly in the

offspring: results to date”, poster presentation by Sang Nahm and Loraine D. Marrett at the Workplace Safety and

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

Insurance Board’s Research Advisory Council Solutions for Workplace Change Conference, Toronto, Ontario,

November 18, 2004.

“Preventable Cancer in Ontario. How are we doing?”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Sudbury and District

Health Unit, Sudbury, Ontario, October 14, 2004.

“Epidemiology of Skin Cancer”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Sudbury and District Health Unit, Sudbury,

Ontario, October 14, 2004.

“Cancer in Ontario First Nations People”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Joint Cancer Care Ontario-Aboriginal

Cancer Committee, Cape Croker, Ontario, September 13-14, 2004.

“Burden of Cancer in Ontario First Nations People”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Joint Preventive Oncology

& Research Board Committee (JPORBC), Toronto, September 7, 2004.

“Epidemiology of Skin Cancer”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at the Lunch and Learn, Thunder Bay Regional

Hospital, Thunder Bay, March 1, 2004.

“Cancer in Ontario’s First Nations People: A population-based study, 1966-2001”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett at

the Lunch and Learn, Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, Thunder Bay, March 1, 2004.

“A Proposed Study of Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in Ontario Uranium Miners and the Risk of Congenital

Anomaly in the Offspring: A Record Linkage Case-Control Study”, poster presentation by Sang Nahm and Loraine D.

Marrett at the 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting of Canadian Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Network, Edmonton,

October 19-21, 2003.

“Cancer in Young Adults in Canada”, presented by Loraine D. Marrett, Beth Theis, Diane Nishri, Donna Turner, Anne-

Marie Ugnat, Saira Bahl, Nazeem Mujarine and Doug Dover at the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and

Biostatistics, Halifax, NS, June 8-11, 2003.

“Sun exposure recall: Instrument development and evaluation”, presented by Diane Nishri, Beth Theis, Janie Frood,

Fred Ashbury, David Northrup and Loraine D. Marrett at the International Conference on Questionnaire Development,

Evaluation and Testing Methods, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2002.

“Cervical Screening Information Systems for Latin America: Conceptual Model & Implementation”, presented by

Loraine D Marrett, Sylvia Robles, B Green, Silvana Luciani, Gloria Coronado and Goel Vivek, at the XVI International

Epidemiological Association’s World Congress of Epidemiology Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, August 18-22, 2002.

“Quality of Data in Two Ontario Uranium Miner Files”, poster presentation by Sang Nahm and Loraine D. Marrett at

the XVI IEA 2002 World Congress of Epidemiology of International Epidemiological Association, Montreal, Quebec,

Aug 18-22, 2002.

“Cancer in Canadian Aboriginals: A population-based study in Ontario’s First Nations people”, presented at the North

American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Toronto, Ontario, June 11-13, 2002.

“The Ontario Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Program: A New Initiative of Cancer Care Ontario and

Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Board”, poster presented at Cancer Care Ontario’s 2002 Annual Preventive

Oncology Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, May 22, 2002.

“Quality of Data in Two Ontario Uranium Miner Files”, poster presentation by Sang Nahm and Loraine D. Marrett at

the Public Health Sciences Research Day, University of Toronto, February 8, 2002.

“Comparison of Two Ontario Uranium Miners Data Files - A Feasibility Study”, poster presentation by Sang Nahm and

Loraine D. Marrett at the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health (CARWH), First National

Symposium, Toronto, Nov 18, 2001.

“The Ontario Occupational Cancer Research and Surveillance Program: A new initiative of Cancer Care Ontario and

Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Board”, poster presented at the Workshop on Best Practices in Workplace

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

Surveillance: Identification and Tracking of Workplace Injury, Illness, Exposures and Hazards, Cincinnati, Ohio,

November 7-9, 2001.

“Cancer in young adults in Canada”, poster presented at the Australasian Epidemiological Association’s 10th

Annual

Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia, September 27-28, 2001.

“Melanoma incidence trends in New South Wales, Australia”, presented at the Congress of Epidemiology 2001,

Toronto, Ontario, June 13-16, 2001.

“Validation of Self-reported Skin Color by Reflectance Spectroscopy”, poster presented at the Congress of

Epidemiology 2001, Toronto, Ontario, June 13-16, 2001.

“Conceptual model for a cervical screening information system”, presented at the Pan American Health Organization’s

International Workshop on Cervical Cancer Information Systems, Washington, DC, March 5-6, 2001.

“New Beginnings. Planning Cancer Care for Aboriginal Peoples”, presented at the Joint Cancer Care Ontario/University

of Toronto Preventive Oncology Seminar Series, Toronto, Ontario, February 21, 2001 (with C Jones).

“Use of Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy to Validate Self-reported Skin Colour: II. An Epidemiologic Assessment”,

poster presented at the 13th International Congress on Photobiology, San Francisco, California, July 1-6, 2000.

“Prevention of Environmental Cancers: Identifying the Role of Cancer Care Ontario”, poster presented at the First

Workshop on Occupational and Environmental Cancer Research, French River, Ontario, May 6-8, 2000 (with N Kreiger

and J Macey).

“International Incidence Trends for Melanoma: What Does it all Mean?”, presented at the Canadian Society for

Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vancouver, B.C., May 6-8, 1999.

“UV Radiation: Science, Sun Protection and the Classroom”, presented at STAO (The Science Teachers’ Association of

Ontario) ’98 – Meeting the Challenge of Change Conference, Toronto, Ontario, November 5-7, 1998 (with members of

the Ontario Sun Safety Working Group).

“Melanoma and Ultraviolet Radiation: Overview and Issues,” presented at the Joint Cancer Care Ontario/University of

Toronto Preventive Oncology Seminar Series, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,

March 25, 1998.

“Barriers to the Development of an Information System for Cervical Screening: The Experience of the Ontario Pilot

Project,” presented at the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, Ontario, May 25-28, 1997.

“Verification of Self-reported Radiation Exposures in a Case-control Study of Thyroid Cancer,” presented at the

Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, Ontario, May 25-28, 1997 (with B Roston).

“A Pilot Study of the Use of Sunlamps and Tanning Beds and Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure,” presented at the

Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, Ontario, May 25-28, 1997 (with S Tenzif).

“Creating an Ontario Cancer-Occupation Database: Feasibility Study,” poster presented at the Canadian Society for

Epidemiology and Biostatistics, London, Ontario, May 25-28, 1997 (with R Chaudhry).

“Information and Reporting System Pilot Demonstration: Progress and Problems,” presented at the Joint Ontario Cancer

Institute/Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation/University of Toronto Preventive Oncology Seminar

Series, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, September 25, 1996.

“The Intermittent Exposure Hypothesis: Results of a Case-control Study of Melanoma in Southern Ontario,” presented

at the Third Symposium on the Epidemiology of Melanoma and Non-melanocytic Skin Cancer, Vancouver, British

Columbia, May 27 - 28, 1996.

“A Population-based Cervical Screening Information and Reporting System (CSIRS) in Ontario: Pilot Demonstration of

Feasibility,” presented at the World Conference for Cancer Organisations, Melbourne, Australia, March 3 - 7, 1996.

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

"Geographic Variation in Cancer in Ontario: Mapping and Ecological Analysis", presented at the Joint Ontario Cancer

Institute/Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation/University of Toronto Preventive Oncology Seminar

Series, Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, November 1, 1995 (with D Nishri)

"Incidence of Cancer in Registered Indians in Ontario, Canada, 1966 to 1991", poster presented at the OCTRF 15th

Clinical Cancer Research Conference, Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, October, 1995 (with M Sloan, V Hunter, A

Wojcik).

"Incidence of Cancer in Registered Indians in Ontario, Canada, 1966 to 1991", presented at the 1995 annual conference

of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, San Francisco, California, April 20, 1995.

"Incidence of cancer in First Nations in Ontario, 1966-1991", presented at the annual conference of the American

Association of Central Cancer Registries, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April, 1994.

"Incidence of Cancer in First Nations", poster presented at the OCTRF 14th Clinical Cancer Research Conference,

Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, October, 1993 (with M Sloan, P Toogood, G Hunter).

"Fifty Years of Cancer Mortality in Ontario: Then and Now", poster presented at the OCTRF 14th Clinical Cancer

Research Conference, Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, October, 1993 (with EA Clarke, A Moskowitz).

"Reproductive Outcomes in Female Childhood Cancer Survivors", poster presented at the OCTRF 14th Clinical Cancer

Research Conference, Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, October, 1993 (with AM Chiarelli, ML Greenberg, MH Bryan, I

Fan).

"Issues in the Mapping of Cancer Incidence Data", presented at the research conference of the Canadian Society for

Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, June, 1993.

"Reproductive Outcomes in Female Childhood Cancer Survivors", poster presented at the meeting of the Pediatric

Oncology Group of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, June, 1993 (with AM Chiarelli, ML Greenberg, MH Bryan, I Fan).

"Accuracy of municipality-level residence information in the Ontario Cancer Registry: Results of a pilot study",

presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Cancer Registries, Ottawa, June, 1992.

"The epidemiology of malignant germ cell tumours in Ontario", poster presented at the International Symposium on

Testicular and Prostatic Cancer, Toronto, November, 1990 (with H Weir, L Dodds, L Sugar, H Richmond).

"The Etiology of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma: Some preliminary results from a case-control study in Southern

Ontario", presented at Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics Rounds, Toronto, November 1, 1990.

"Design of feasibility study to form a cancer occupation database for Ontario through linkage of census and cancer

registry files", presented to the Industrial Disease Standards Panel, Toronto, October 10, 1990.

"Response to a mailed questionnaire in a case-control study: Predictions of non-response and effects of follow-up",

presented to the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, December 5,

1989 (with N Kreiger and B Choi).

"The Effect on Response Rates of Offering a small Incentive with a mailed Questionnaire", presented at the Canadian

Epidemiology Meeting, Ottawa, August 30, 1989.

"Results of a review of the options for establishing a cancer-occupation database for Ontario", presented to the Industrial

Disease Standards Panel, Toronto, June 21, 1989.

"Research Report of the OCTRF Division of Epidemiology and Statistics", presented to the Research Advisory Panel of

the OCTRF, Toronto, November 7, 1988.

"Issues in the Design and Conduct of Case-control Studies", presented at the XIth meeting of the International

Epidemiological Association, Helsinki, Finland, August 11, 1987.

"The Ontario Cancer Registry", presented at the Cancer Epidemiology Seminar, sponsored by the Ontario Cancer

Treatment and Research Foundation, Toronto, November 4, 1986.

Loraine D. Marrett

April 2014

"Trends in Germ Cell Testicular Cancer Mortality by Histology, Ontario, 1964-1982", presented as a poster at the 14th

UICC Congress, Budapest, Hungary, August 26, 1986.

"Use of Analgesics and Risk of Lower Urinary Tract Tumours", presented (with L Dodds) as a poster at the 19th annual

meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Pittsburgh, PA, June 18, 1986.

“Epidemiologic Research Using the Ontario Cancer Registry", presented at the meeting of the International Association

of Cancer Registries, Hartford, Connecticut, December 11, 1985.

"Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer in Different Populations", presented with WE Rawls at Clinical Epidemiology and

Biostatistics Rounds, McMaster University, Hamilton, November 28, 1985.

"Bladder Tumour Incidence in a Benzidine-exposed Cohort: A 30-year follow-up", presented at the 18th Annual

Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 19, 1985.

"Validation and Quantification of Exposures and Skin Colour in a Population Based Study of Malignant

Melanoma", presented with Clyde Hertzman at the meeting of the Upstate New York/Southern Ontario

Epidemiology Group (UNYSOEG), Buffalo, New York, May 3, 1985.

"The Ontario Cancer Registry 1965-1982: Methods and Provisional Results", presented at Community Health

Research Day, University of Toronto, March 25, 1985.

"Trends in Cancer Mortality and Incidence in Ontario", presented with Dr EA Clarke at the Ontario Cancer

Treatment and Research Foundation Epidemiology Seminar, Toronto, November 15, 1984.

"The Ontario Cancer Registry", presented with Dr EA Clarke to the meeting of Ontario Health Records Association,

Region #6, Toronto, October 16, 1984.

"Risk Factors for Adenomatous Endometrial Hyperplasia", presented at the Xth Scientific Meeting of the

International Epidemiological Association, Vancouver, Canada, August 21, 1984.

"Comparison of Cancer Mortality in Shanghai and Ontario", poster presented at the Xth Scientific Meeting of the

International Epidemiological Association, Vancouver, Canada, August 20, 1984.

"Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Ontario", presented with Dr EA Clarke at the meeting of Medical Record

Technicians, Ontario Cancer Foundation, Toronto, June, 1984.

"Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Ontario,", presented at Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Rounds,

McMaster University, Hamilton, April 5, 1984.

"The Epidemiology of Lower Urinary Tract Tumours", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for

Epidemiologic Research, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 16, 1983.

"Trends in Cancer Mortality in Ontario 1931-1980", presented at Community Health Research Day, University of

Toronto, Toronto, April 1983.

"The Incidence of Localized and Advanced Cancer of the Corpus Uteri in Connecticut, 1964-1979, in Relation to

Trends in Consumption and Models of Action of Exogenous Estrogens", presented at the annual meeting of the

Society for Epidemiologic Research, Snowbird, Utah, June 18, 1981.

"Population Based Study of Lower Urinary Tract Tumor", poster presentation at the National Bladder Cancer Project

Workshop, Hershey, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1981.

"The Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer in Connecticut", presented at the Biometry/Epidemiology Seminar, Department

of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, March 2, 1981.

"Patterns in Uterine Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Connecticut", presented at the Biometry/Epidemiology seminar,

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, December 10, 1979.

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April 2014

"Recent Trends in the Incidence and Mortality of Endometrial Cancer in Connecticut", presented at the Annual Meeting

of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Seattle, Washington, June, 1977.

Teaching Activities, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health:

Administrative Responsibilities/Committee Work:

2006 - 2011 Admissions Committee, Ph.D. Program in Epidemiology

2004 - 2007 Promotions Committee, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

1991 - 1995 Associate Director, Graduate Program in Epidemiology

1992 - 1995 Chair, Epidemiology Program Steering Committee, Department of Preventive Medicine and


1991 - 1995 Graduate Programs Course Review Committee, Department of Preventive Medicine and


1992 - 1993 Curriculum Planning Committee, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto

Graduate courses taught:

2014- Assisted Susan Bondy with redevelopment of CHL 5402 – Epidemiologic Methods

2006 - 2013 Class on “Overview of Cancer Patterns and Trends” in Community Health Needs Assessment” and

“Health Trends and Surveillance Course” (CHL 5405H/5405)

2005 Class on “Recent Advances in Nutritional Sciences II – Diet and Cancer” (NFS 1219S)

2003 - 2006 Class on “Cancer Registries” in “Community Health Needs Assessment” (CHL 5405S)

1997 - 2013 Class on “Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers” in “Cancer Epidemiology” (CHL 5409S, 5409H)

2003 Tutorial leader, “Analysis of Case-control Studies” for “Epidemiologic Methods II” (CHL 5402S)

2003 Co-taught “Case-control Study Design” in “Epidemiologic Methods II (CHL 5402S)

2003, Class on “Skin Cancer and Ultraviolet Radiation Seminar in Environment and Health” (MSC 4000H)

1998 – 2000

1999 - 2001 Co-taught M.Sc. level course “Epidemiologic Methods II” (CHL 5402S)

1996 - 1999 Selected classes in “Research Methods in Epidemiology” (CHL 5404F)

1993 Reading Course (CHL 4901H)

1989 - 1992 Co-developed and taught new M.Sc. level course "Epidemiologic Methods" (CHL 3110S).

1988 - 2001 Class on "Record linkage studies" in "Occupational Epidemiology" (CHL 3108F/5410)

1986 - 1987 Three sessions in "Cancer Epidemiology" (CHL 4106S)

1984 - 1987 Class on "Overview of Cancer Epidemiology" in "Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases II"

(CHL 3104F)

Student supervision (as primary supervisor):

2014 Dina Tsirlin, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) Practicum Student, University of Toronto

(Project title: Building an online risk assessment tool for melanoma)

2013 Abigail Amartey, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) Practicum Student, University of Toronto

(Project title: Cancer Risk Factor Prevalence in Ontario First Nations and Metis people)

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2012 Kenneth Euler, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) Practicum Student, University of Toronto.

(Project title: Lung cancer incidence by socio-demographic characteristics, Ontario, 2004-2008).

2011 Stephanie Young, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) Practicum Student, University of Toronto.

(Project title: Socio demographic analysis of cervical cancer cases in Ontario, 1991-200)

2011 Maegan Victoria Prummel, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) Practicum Student, University

of Toronto. (Project title: Colorectal Cancer and Aboriginal Identity in Ontario).

2010 - Diana Withrow, PhD Student. (Thesis topic: Cancer survival in Canadian First Nations and Metis).

2009 Supervision of Elisa Candido, Master of Health Science-Community and Epidemiology

Specialization (MHSc) Practicum Student, University of Toronto. (Project title: Trends in thyroid

cancer incidence in Ontario, Canada: 1985-2004).

2009 Supervision of Michelle Costa, Master of Health Science-Community and Epidemiology

Specialization (MHSc) Practicum Student, University of Toronto. (Project title: Melanoma incidence

and mortality trends among Ontario young adults (1970-2004): boom or bust?).

2004 - 2010 Ms. Amanda Ritchie Sheppard, Ph.D. Student. (Thesis: Determinants of breast cancer survival in

Ontario’s First Nations women).

2003 - 2005 Ms. Maria Chiu, M.Sc student. (Thesis topic: Investigating tanning equipment use and risk of

multiple cutaneous malignant melanoma in a population-based case-multiple-case-study in Ontario).

2002 - 2007 Dr. Rochelle Mandelcorn Monson, M.Sc. student. (Thesis topic: Vitamin D polymorphisms in

melanoma).

2002 - 2009 Mr. Minh Do, Ph.D. student. (Thesis topic: Ionizing radiation exposure and risk of gastrointestinal

cancer: a study of the Ontario uranium miners).

2001-2004 Ms. Sharon Relova, M.Sc. student (Thesis topic: Assessment of questionnaire for retrospective

assessment of early life sun exposure).

1998 -2004 Mr. Mark Purdue, Ph.D. student. (Thesis topic: A case-referent study investigating the existence

of independent etiologic pathways in the pathogenesis of cutaneous malignant melanoma)

1995 - 1998 Ms. Munaza Chaudhry, M.Sc. completed in September, 1998. (Thesis topic: Cancer incidence,

mortality and survival in Status Indians in Ontario)

1994 - 2002 Ms. Debbie Gibson, M.Sc. completed in May, 2002. (Thesis topic: The risk for colon cancer

associated with the consumption of Ontario sport fish)

1993 - 1997 Mr. Siamak Tenzif, M.Sc. completed in September, 1997. (Thesis topic: Pilot study on the use of

sunlamps and tanning beds)

1992 -2011 Ms. Sang Nahm, Ph.D. student. (Thesis topic: Congenital anomalies and paternal exposure to

radiation in the workplace)

1991 - 1996 Mr. Will King, Ph.D. completed in September, 1996. (Thesis topic: A case-control study of

bladder cancer and water source in Ontario)

1990 - 1997 Ms. Barbara Roston, M.Sc. completed in March, 1997. (Thesis topic: Verification of radiation

exposures in a case-control study of thyroid cancer)

1989 - 1994 Ms. Julia Knight, Ph.D. completed in May, 1994. (Thesis topic: Occupational risk factors for

testicular cancer in Ontario)

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1989 - 1997 Ms. Anna Chiarelli, Ph.D. completed in January, 1997. (Thesis topic: Reproductive outcomes in

females following treatment for childhood cancer)

1986 - 1991 Ms. Linda Dodds, Ph.D. completed in October, 1991. (Thesis topic: A record linkage study of

congenital anomalies in the offspring of cancer patients)

1987 - 1989 Ms. Donna Reynolds. M.Sc. completed in July, 1989. (Thesis title: The geographic distribution of

cancer mortality in Ontario: An ecologic analysis on ethnicity, industry, and socio-economic

characteristics, 1976-1985)

1984 - 1986 Dr. Sylvia Robles. M.Sc. completed in July, 1986. (Thesis title: Quality of the data in a

population-based registry).

Student supervision (as thesis committee member):

2006 – 2013 Ms. Parisa Airia, Ph.D. student (Thesis topic : From Dietary Pattern to Tumor Characteristics in

Colorectal Cancer: An Analysis of the Pathways).

2005 - 2008 Ms. Joy Angeles, M.Sc student, Queen’s University (Thesis topic: Estimating the

burden of occupational bladder cancer in Ontario using the 2001 Canadian Census and the CAREX

database).

2002 - 2005 Ms. Honny Ghadaki, M.Sc. student (Thesis topic: Impact of blood collection on response bias in a

study of familial colorectal cancer).

1997 - 1999 Dr. David Urbach, M.Sc. (Clinical Epidemiology Program). (Thesis title: Is perforation of the

appendix a risk factor for tubal infertility?).

1997 - 2005 Ms. Monica Bienefeld, Ph.D. (Thesis title: The effect of occupational radiation exposure on risk for

spontaneous abortion among Canadian medical radiation technologists).

1997 Ms. Hannah Weir. Ph.D. completed in January, 1997. (Thesis title: Endocrine factors

and risk of testicular germ cell cancer).

1993 - 2000 Mr. Mohammad Agha. Ph.D. completed in September, 2000. (Thesis title: Congenital anomalies and

childhood cancer: A record linkage cohort study).

1993 Dr. Herbert Davies. M.Sc. (Clinical Epidemiology Program) completed in 1993. (Thesis title:

Case-comparative study of pneumonia in hospitalized Canadian infants younger than six months

of age).

Undergraduate courses taught:

1986 Critical Appraisal, third year medical students, 12 hours of tutorials

1982 - 1985 Seminars in epidemiology, second year students, 2-7 hours per year

Teaching Activities, McMaster University, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics:

Graduate courses taught:

1987 Co-developed and co-taught "Research Methods using Non-experimental Designs" (MS751),

M.Sc. course.

1986 - 1988 Class on "Epidemiology of Cancer" to Occupational Health Diploma students (3 hours).

Loraine D. Marrett

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1984 - 1986 Tutor for selected sessions in "Fundamentals of Clinical Epidemiology" (MS721), "Introduction to

Biostatistics" (MS702) and "Introduction to Research Methods in the Health Sciences" (MS730)

M.Sc. programme.

1988 Supervision of Dr. Kathy Isles on a research internship (12 month), M.Sc. programme.

(Topic: Determination of selected occupational exposures on the basis of job titles in a

case-control study of renal cell carcinoma).

Student supervision/thesis committees:

1986 - 1989 Ph.D Committee, Mr. Harry Caussey. Ph.D. completed December, 1988. (Thesis title: The role of

HPV 16 and HPV 18 in cervical cancer).

1986 Supervision of Dr. Barry Rosen on a research internship (4 months), M.Sc. programme. (Topic:

Rules for determining primary sites of gynecologic cancers in the Ontario Cancer Registry).

1986 Supervision of Dr. David Melnychuk on a research internship (4 months), M.Sc. programme.

(Topic: Cancer mortality in North East Ontario).

1983 - 1985 Reader for Mr. Alan Kitching. M.Sc. completed January, 1986. (Thesis topic: Design of a study of

HPV and cervical cancer).

1983 - 1984 Co-supervision of Mr. Alan Kitching on a research internship (4 months), M.Sc. programme.

(Topic: International variation in risk factors for cervical cancer).

Curriculum Vitae LORAINE D. MARRETT, Ph.D.

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