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1.Tsilidis KKPapadimitriou N, Capothanassi D,..., Boffetta P, Trichopoulos D, Trichopoulou A. Burden of cancer in a large consortium of prospective cohorts in Europe. J Natl Cancer Inst 2016 [accepted].

2. Dimitrakopoulou VI, Travis RC, Shui IM,..., Kraft P, Key TJ, Tsilidis KK. Interactions between genome-wide significant genetic variants and circulating concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in relation to prostate cancer risk in the NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium. Am J Epidemiol 2016 [accepted].

3. Murphy N, Cross AJ, Abubakar M,..., Tsilidis KK, Muller DC, Riboli E, Gunter MJ. A Nested Case-Control Study of Metabolically Defined Body Size Phenotypes and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). PLoS Med. 2016 Apr 5;13(4):e1001988.

4. Lopez DS, Advani S, Tsilidis KK, Wang R, Baillargeon J, Dobs A, Symanski E, Canfield S. Association of Urinary Phthalate Metabolites With Erectile Dysfunction in Racial and Ethnic Groups in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2004. Am J Mens Health 2016 [accepted].

5. Garcia-Anguita A, Kakourou A, Tsilidis KK. Biomarkers of Inflammation and Immune Function and Risk of Colorectal Cancer. Curr Colorectal Cancer Rep 2015;11:250-258.

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Sen A, Tsilidis KK, Allen NE,..., Riboli E, Gunter M, Franceschi S. Baseline and lifetime alcohol consumption and risk of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in the EPIC study. Br J Cancer 2015;13:840-847.

7. Kakourou A, Koutsioumpa C, Lopez DS, Hoffman-Bolton J, Bradwin G, Rifai N, Helzlsouer KJ, Platz EA, Tsilidis KK. Interleukin-6 and risk of colorectal cancer: results from the CLUE II cohort and a meta-analysis of prospective studies. Cancer Causes Control 2015;26:1449-1460.

8. Tsilidis KK, Kasimis JC, Lopez DS, Ntzani EE, Ioannidis JP. Type 2 diabetes and cancer: umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies. BMJ 2015;350:g7607.

9. Papatheodorou SI, Tsilidis KK, Evangelou E, Ioannidis JP. Application of credibility ceilings probes the robustness of meta-analyses of biomarkers and cancer risk. J Clin Epidemiol 2015;68:163-74.

10. Panagiotou OA, Travis RC, Campa D, Berndt SI, Lindstrom S, Kraft P, Schumacher FR, Siddiq A, Papatheodorou SI, Stanford JL, Albanes D, Virtamo J, Weinstein SJ, Diver WR, Gapstur SM, Stevens VL, Boeing H, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Gurrea AB, Kaaks R, Khaw KT, Krogh V, Overvad K, Riboli E, Trichopoulos D, Giovannucci E, Stampfer M, Haiman C, Henderson B, Le Marchand L, Gaziano JM, Hunter DJ, Koutros S, Yeager M, Hoover RN; The PRACTICAL Consortium, Chanock SJ, Wacholder S, Key TJ, Tsilidis KK. A Genome-wide Pleiotropy Scan for Prostate Cancer Risk. Eur Urol 2015;67:649-57.

11. Tsilidis KK, Capothanassi D, Allen NE, Rizos EC, Lopez DS, van Veldhoven K, Sacerdote C, Ashby D, Vineis P, Tzoulaki I, Ioannidis JPA. Metformin does not affect cancer risk: a cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink analyzed like an intention-to-treat trial. Diabetes Care 2014;37:2522-32.

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Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Appleby PN, Rohrmann S, Nöthlings U, Arriola L, Gunter MJ,..., Travis RC, Key TJ. Diabetes mellitus and risk of prostate cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Int J Cancer 2014;136:372-81.

13. Campa D, Barrdahl M, Tsilidis KK, et al. A genome-wide pleiotropy scan does not identify new susceptibility loci for estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. Plos One 2013;9(2):e85955.
 
14.
 Tsilidis KK, Rohrmann S, McGlynn KA, Nyante SJ, Lopez DS, Bradwin G, Feinleib M, Joshu CE, Kanarek N, Nelson WG, Selvin E, Platz EA. Association between endogenous sex steroid hormones and inflammatory biomarkers in US men. Andrology 2013;1(6):919-928. Abstract

15. Tsilidis KK, Panagiotou OA, Sena ES, Aretouli E, Evangelou E, Howells DW, Al-Shahi Salman R, Macleod MR, Ioannidis JPA.  Evaluation of excess significance bias in animal studies of neurological diseases. Plos Biol 2013;11(7):e1001609. Abstract

16. Tsilidis KK, Travis RC, Appleby PN, Allen NE, Lindstrom S, Albanes D, et al. Insulin-like growth factor pathway genes and 
blood concentrations, dietary protein, and risk of prostate cancer in the NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3).
Int J Cancer 2013;133:495-504. Abstract

17.  Tsilidis KK, Papatheodorou SI, Evangelou E, Ioannidis JPA. Evaluation of excess statistical significance in meta-analyses of 98
biomarker associations with cancer risk. J Natl Cancer Inst 2012;105:1867-1878. Abstract


18. Tsilidis KK, Travis RC, Appleby PN, Allen NE, Lindstrom S, Schumacher FR, et al. Interactions between genome-wide
significant genetic variants and circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-1, sex hormones and binding proteins in
relation to prostate cancer risk in the NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3). Am J Epidemiol 2012;
175:926-935. Abstract
19. Shinohara RT, Frangakis CF, Platz EA, Tsilidis KK. Estimating effects by combining instrumental variables with case-control 
designs. Int J Biostat 2012;8(1).
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1355. Abstract
20. Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Key, TJ, et al. Oral contraceptive use and reproductive factors and risk of ovarian cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Br J Cancer 2011;105:1436-42. Abstract

21.Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Key TJ, et al.
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of ovarian cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Cancer Causes & Control 2011;22:1075-84. Abstract

22. Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Key TJ, et al. Oral contraceptives, reproductive history and risk of colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Br J Cancer 2010;103:1755-9. Abstract

23. Allen NE, Tsilidis KK, Key TJ, et al. Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of endometrial carcinoma in 
postmenopausal women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). 
Am J Epidemiol 2010;172:1394-403.  Abstract

24. Tsilidis KK, Allen NE, Key TJ, et al. Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. Int J Cancer 2011;128:1881-9. Abstract 

25. Tsilidis KK, Brancati FL, Pollak MN, Rifai N, Clipp SL, Hoffman-Bolton J, Helzlsouer KJ, Platz EA. Metabolic syndrome components and colorectal adenoma in the CLUE II cohort. Cancer Causes Control 2010; 21:1-10. Abstract

26. Tsilidis KK, Helzlsouer KJ, Smith MW, Grinberg V, Hoffman-Bolton J, Clipp SL, Visvanathan K, Platz EA. Association of common polymorphisms in IL10, and in other genes related to inflammatory response and obesity with colorectal cancer. Cancer Causes Control 2009; 20:1739-51. Abstract

27. Tsilidis KK, Branchini C, Guallar E, Helzlsouer KJ, Erlinger TP, Platz EA. C-reactive protein and colorectal cancer risk: a systematic review of prospective studies. Int J Cancer 2008; 123:1133-40. Abstract

28. Tsilidis KK, Erlinger TP, Rifai N, Hoffman S, Hoffman-Bolton J, Helzlsouer KJ, Platz EA. C-reactive protein and colorectal adenoma in the CLUE II cohort. Cancer Causes Control 2008; 19: 559-67. Abstract


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