EHSRC Investigator Detail
| Charles F. Lynch, M.D., Ph.D. | |
| Professor of Epidemiology |
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| Email: charles-lynch@uiowa.edu | |
| Phone: (319) 384-5006 | |
| Medical Director and Principal Investigator of the State Health Registry of Iowa | |
| Iowa Director of the Agricultural Health Study | |
| Leader, Cancer Epidemiology Program of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Program | |
| EHSRC Role(s): | Member, Environmental Lung Disease Research Cluster |
Dr. Lynch's major research interest centers around population-based research that involves a cancer surveillance program (Iowa Cancer Registry) and cancer epidemiology and surveillance, cancer pathology, and environmental epidemiology.
Recent Publications
- Lubin JH, Alavanja MC, Caporaso N, Brown LM, Brownson RC, Field RW, Garcia-Closas M, Hartge P, Hauptmann M, Hayes RB, Kleinerman R, Kogevinas M, Krewski D, Langholz B, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Malats N, Sandler DP, Schaffrath-Rosario A, Schoenberg JB, Silverman DT, Wang Z, Wichmann HE, Wilcox HB, Zielinski JM. Cigarette Smoking and Cancer Risk: Modeling Total Exposure and Intensity. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 Jun 21; [Epub ahead of print]
- Alavanja MC, Dosemeci M. Samanic C, Lubin J, Lynch CF, Knott C, Barker J, Hoppin JA, Sandler DP, Coble J, Thomas K, Blair A. Pesticides and lung cancer risk in the Agricultural Health Study cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology 160:876-885, 2004.
- Krewski D, Lubin JH, Zielinski JM, Alavanja M, Catalan VS, Field RW, Klotz JB, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Lyon JL, Sandler DP, Schoenberg JB, Steck DJ, Stolwijk JA, Weinberg C, Wilcox HB. Residential radon and risk of lung cancer: a combined analysis of 7 North American case-control studies. Epidemiology 16(2):137-145, 2005.
- Beane Freeman LE, Bonner MR, Blair A, Hoppin JA, Sandler DP, Lubin JH, Dosemeci M, Lynch CF, Knott C, Alavanja MC. Cancer incidence among male pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study cohort exposed to diazinon. American Journal of Epidemiology 162 (11):1070-1079, 2005.
- Hoppin JA, Umbach DM, London SJ, Lynch CF, Alavanja MC, Sandler DP. Pesticides and adult respiratory outcomes in the Agricultural Health Study. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences 1076:343-54, 2006.
- Hodgson DC, Gilbert ES, Dores GM, Schonfeld SJ, Lynch CF, Storm H, Hall P, Langmark F, Pukkala E, Andersson M, Kaijser M, Joensuu H, Fossa SD, Travis LB. Long-term solid cancer risk among 5-year survivors of Hodgkin's lymphoma. J Clin Oncol. 2007 Apr 20;25(12):1489-97. Epub 2007 Mar 19.
- Clegg LX, Reichman ME, Hankey BF, Miller BA, Lin YD, Johnson NJ, Schwartz SM, Bernstein L, Chen VW, Goodman MT, Gomez SL, Graff JJ, Lynch CF, Lin CC, Edwards BK. Quality of race, Hispanic ethnicity, and immigrant status in population-based cancer registry data: implications for health disparity studies. Cancer Causes Control. 2007 Mar;18(2):177-87. Epub 2007 Jan 11.