Anna H. Wu Professor Preventive Medicine (Division of Epidemiology) USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Keck School of Medicine

Education:
AB 1976 Physiology- University of California, Berkeley
MPH 1978 Epidemiology- University of California, Los Angeles
PhD 1983 Epidemiology- University of California, Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship:
1984-1986 University of California, Los Angeles

Started at USC: 1983

Research Topics: Cancer Prevention/Epidemiology, Molecular Epidemiology

Research Description

Dr. Wu's research focuses on the epidemiology of cancer with emphasis on understanding the increase of various (e.g., breast, ovarian, prostate, colon ) cancers among Asian migrants to the US. A second area of research interest relates to the study of tobacco-related cancers (e.g., lung, stomach/esophagus) and genes that may be important in the metabolism of tobacco constituents.

Selected Publications

Wu AH, Wang R, Koh WP, Stanczyk FC, Lee HP, Yu MC. - Sleep duration, melatonin and breast cancer among Chinese women in Singapore. - Carcinogenesis [ 2008 ] Apr 30; . PubMed

Ramus SJ, Vierkant RA, Johnatty SE, Pike MC, Van Den Berg DJ, Wu AH, Pearce CL, Menon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Gayther SA, Dicioccio RA, McGuire V, Whittemore AS, Song H, Easton DF, Pharoah PD, Garcia-Closas M, Chanock S, Lissowska J, Brinton L, Terry KL, Cramer DW, Tworoger SS, Hankinson SE, Berchuck A, Moorman PG, Schildkraut JM, Cunningham JM, Liebow M, Kjaer SK, Hogdall E, Hogdall C, Blaakaer J, Ness RB, Moysich KB, Edwards RP, Carney ME, Lurie G, Goodman MT, Wang-Gohrke S, Kropp S, Chang-Claude J, Webb PM, Chen X, Beesley J, Chenevix-Trench G, Goode EL. - Consortium analysis of 7 candidate SNPs for ovarian cancer. - Int J Cancer [ 2008 ] Jul 15;123(2):380-8 . PubMed

Haiman CA, Garcia RR, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Wu AH, Le Marchand L. - A promoter polymorphism in the CASP8 gene is not associated with cancer risk. - Nat Genet [ 2008 ] Mar;40(3):259-60; author reply 260-1 . PubMed

Leigh Pearce C, Near AM, Butler JL, Van Den Berg D, Bretsky P, Conti DV, Stram DO, Pike MC, Hirschhorn JN, Wu AH. - Comprehensive evaluation of ESR2 variation and ovarian cancer risk. - Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev [ 2008 ] Feb;17(2):393-6 . PubMed

Pearce CL, Wu AH, Gayther SA, Bale AE, Beck PA, Beesley J, Chanock S, Cramer DW, DiCioccio R, Edwards R, Fredericksen ZS, Garcia-Closas M, Goode EL, Green AC, Hartmann LC, Hogdall E, Kjaer SK, Lissowska J, McGuire V, Modugno F, Moysich K, Ness RB, Ramus SJ, Risch HA, Sellers TA, Song H, Stram DO, Terry KL, Webb PM, Whiteman DC, Whittemore AS, Zheng W, Pharoah PD, Chenevix-Trench G, Pike MC, Schildkraut J, Berchuck A. - Progesterone receptor variation and risk of ovarian cancer is limited to the invasive endometrioid subtype: results from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium pooled analysis. - Br J Cancer [ 2008 ] Jan 29;98(2):282-8 . PubMed

Borugian MJ, Spinelli JJ, Sun Z, Kolonel LN, Oakley-Girvan I, Pollak MD, Whittemore AS, Wu AH, Gallagher RP. - Prostate cancer risk in relation to insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and IGF-binding protein-3: a prospective multiethnic study. - Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev [ 2008 ] Jan;17(1):252-4 . PubMed

Duan L, Wu AH, Sullivan-Halley J, Bernstein L. - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of esophageal and gastric adenocarcinomas in Los Angeles County. - Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev [ 2008 ] Jan;17(1):126-34 . PubMed

Wu AH, Yu MC, Tseng CC, Pike MC. - Epidemiology of soy exposures and breast cancer risk. - Br J Cancer [ 2008 ] Jan 15;98(1):9-14 . PubMed

Haiman CA, Hsu C, de Bakker PI, Frasco M, Sheng X, Van Den Berg D, Casagrande JT, Kolonel LN, Le Marchand L, Hankinson SE, Han J, Dunning AM, Pooley KA, Freedman ML, Hunter DJ, Wu AH, Stram DO, Henderson BE. - Comprehensive association testing of common genetic variation in DNA repair pathway genes in relationship with breast cancer risk in multiple populations. - Hum Mol Genet [ 2008 ] Mar 15;17(6):825-34 . PubMed

Pike MC, Wu AH, Spicer DV, Lee S, Pearce CL. - Estrogens, progestins, and risk of breast cancer. - Ernst Schering Found Symp Proc [ 2007 ] (1):127-50 . PubMed