PUBLICATIONS

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• Boyle T, Fritschi L, Kobayashi LC, Heyworth JS, Lee DG, Si S, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ. Sedentary work and the risk of breast cancer in pre-and post-menopausal women: A pooled analysis of two case-control studies. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (2016) 73(11):735-41. 

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• Chahal D, Lee DG, Toyota B. Survival and tumor recurrence in patients with brain metastases treated by surgical resection with or without adjuvant whole brain radiation therapy. Journal of Radiation Oncology. (2015): 1-7.

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• Lee DG, Lavoue J, Spinelli JJ, Burstyn I. Statistical modeling of occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using OSHA data. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. (2015) 12(10):729-742.

 

• Burstyn I, Slutsky A, Lee DG, Singer AB, An Y, Michael YL. Beyond crosswalks: reliability of exposure assessment following automated coding of free-text job descriptions for occupational epidemiology. Annals of Occupational Hygiene. (2014) 58(4):482-92.

 

• Grundy A, Richardson H, Burstyn I, Lohrisch C, SenGupta SK, Lai AS, Lee D, Spinelli JJ, Aronson KJ. Increased risk of breast cancer associated with long-term shift work in Canada. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (2013) 70(12):831-8.

 

• Lovato CY, Watts AW, Brown KS, Lee D, Sabiston CM, Nykiforuk CIJ, Eyles J, Manske S, Campbell HS, Thompson M. School and Community Predictors of Smoking: A Longitudinal Study of Canadian High Schools. American Journal of Public Health. (2013) 103(2):362-368.

   

• Lovato CY, Zeisser C, Campbell HS, Watts AW, Halpin P, Thompson M, Eyles J, Adlaf E, Brown KS. Adolescent smoking: effects of school and community characteristics. American Journal of Preventative Medicine. (2010) 39(6):507-514. Received acknowledgements for statistical analysis and consultation in aforementioned article.

 

• Lee D, Liu W, Peng J, Wu L. A Note on the Ordered Means of Exponential Families. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics. (2010) 31(1):69-75.

 

• Rose D, Rendell J, Lee D, Nag K, Booth V. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lung Surfactant Lipid Monolayers. Biophysical Chemistry. (2008) 138(3):67-77.

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PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS OR UNDER REVIEW

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• Schuetz JM, Grundy A, Shi J, Richardson H, Lee DG, Kobayashi LC, Lai AS, Burstyn I, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ, Brooks-Wilson AR. Genetic variants in genes related to inflammation, apoptosis and autophagy in breast cancer risk. 

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• Lee DG, Burstyn I, Lai AS, Grundy A, Friesen MC, Lavoué J, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ. Women’s occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk of breast cancer.

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• Lee DG, Lai AS, Schuetz JM, Burstyn I, Brooks-Wilson A, Aronson KJ, Spinelli JJ. Interaction between exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and xenobiotic metabolizing genes, and risk of breast cancer. 

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CURRENT ABSTRACTS AND RESEARCH PROJECT

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• Weppler AM, Lee DG, Van Niekerk D, Savage KJ. Evaluation of the risk of relapse of patients with stage 3 cutaneous melanoma at event-free survival time points. Abstract [e21074] submitted to the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. (Chicago, Ill) June 2–6, 2017. 

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• Comparison of occupational job exposure matrices for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure with applications in breast cancer risk assessment. 

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• Early adulthood exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in women and risk of developing breast cancer: A pooled analysis of two case-control studies.

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PROGRAMMING: R Codes

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• Misclassifying Odds Ratio

  Functions for dealing with misclassification of ORs due to imperfect sensitivity and specificity, the first code, episensi.R, is similar to the episensi function in STATA that adjusts/corrects biased ORs when we assume certain sensitivity and specificity. The second code, misclassOR.R, does the "opposite" whereby it determines what the biased OR would be if the sensitivity and specificity were imperfect. 

 

• Frequency Polygon

  freqpoly.R is an algorithm to implement a graphical device for understanding the shapes of distributions that are similar to histograms. Frequency polygons are also a good choice for displaying cumulative frequency distributions.

 

• Automated change-in-estimate

  The function dropCIE.R was developed to use with the glm function in R and the logit link function to help select a "final" model via CIE of the odds ratio (OR) for some set tolerance using an all-possible-models manual backwards selection procedure. It is analogous to the drop1 or step functions in R. For more detail please see the affiliated post.

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