Thomas L. Vaughan
Professor
Epidemiology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Rearch Center
United States of America
Biography
Thomas L. Vaughan is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, and Member in the Cancer Epidemiology Program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer tvResearch Center in Seattle, WA. My main interests are the etiology and prevention of cancer, with a particular interest in those arising in the upper respiratory and GI tracts. Education M.P.H., University of Washington, 1983. M.D., University of Illinois, 1978. B.S., Cornell University, Biomedical Engineering, 1974.
Research Interest
Dr. Vaughan's research interests include environmental and genetic factors in the causation of cancer. Examples include studies of occupational exposure to formaldehyde and wood dust in relation to lung and nasopharyngeal cancer, obesity and use of selected medications in the etiology of esophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma, and genetic studies of cancers of the nasopharynx, lung, esophagus, stomach, and kidney. He is also involved in a long-term cohort study of persons with pre-cancerous lesions of the esophagus, in which cell cycle and genetic abnormalities are being used as intermediate markers to facilitate identifying environmental and host factors that increase risk of neoplastic progression.
Publications
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Liu Z, Chang ET, Liu Q, Cai Y, Zhang Z, Chen G, Huang QH, Xie SH, Cao SM, Shao JY, Jia WH, Zheng Y, Liao J, Chen Y, Lin L, Liang L, Ernberg I, Vaughan TL, Adami HO, Huang G, Zeng Y, Zeng YX, Ye W. Quantification of familial risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a high-incidence area. Cancer Jul 15;123(14):2716-2725. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30643.
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Contino G, Vaughan TL, Whiteman DC, Fitzgerald RC. The evolving genomic landscape of Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. Gastroenterology. 2017 Jul 14. pii: S0016-5085(17)35908-5. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2017.07.007.
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Voltzke KJ, Lee Y-CA, Zhang ZF, Zevallow JP, Yu, GP, Winn DM, Vaughan TL, Sturgis EM, Smith E, Schwartz SM, Schantz S, Muscan J, Morgenstern H, McClean M, Li G, Lazarus P, Kelsey K, Gillison M, Chen C, Boffetta P, Hashibe M, Olshan AF. Racial differences in the relationship between tobacco, alcohol, and the risk of head and neck cancer: Pooled analysis of US studies in the INHANCE Consortium.
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Li N, Petrick JL, Steck SE, Bradshaw PT, McClain KM, Niehoff NM, Engel LS, Shaheen NJ, Risch HA, Vaughan TL, Wu A, Gammon MD. A pooled analysis of dietary sugar/carbohydrate intake and esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma incidence and survival in the United States (US). (under revision for Int J Epidem)
