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The Irene Orlow Lab

Irene Orlow, MS, DSc

Attending Biologist

The Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory

Led by Dr. Irene Orlow, the Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory participates in self-initiated research & supports investigations from the Population Sciences Research and Clinical Research programs that involve handling and testing of a variety of human specimens.

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Milic M, Ceppi M, Bruzzone M, Azqueta A, Brunborg G, Godschalk R, Koppen G, Langie S, Moller P, Teixeira JP, Alija A, Anderson D, Andrade V, Andreoli C, Asllani F, Bangkoglu EE, Barancokova M, Basaran N, Boutet-Roninet E, Buschini A, Cavallo D, Costa Pereiera C, Costa C, Costa S, Da Silva J, Del Bo C, Sreckovic V, Djelic N, Dobrzynska M, Durackova Z, Dvorakova M, Gajski G, Galati S, Garcia Lima O, Giovannelli L, Goroshinskaya I, Grindel A, Gutzkow K, Hernandez A, Hernandez C, Holven K, Ibero-Baraibar I, Ottestad I, Kadioglu E, Kazimirova A, Kuznetsova E, Ladeira C, Laffon B, Lamonaca P, Lebailly P, Louro H, Mandina Cardoso T, Macron F, Marcos R, Moretti M, Moretti S, Najafzadeh M, Nemeth Z, Neri M, Novotna B, Orlow I, Paduchova Z, Pastor S, Perdry H, Spremo-Potparevic B, Ramadhani D, Risa P, Rohr P, Rojas E, Rossner P, Safar A, Sardas S, Silva MJ, Sirota N, Smolkova B, Staruchova M, Stetina R, Stopper H, Surikova EI, Ulven S, Ursini CL, Valdiglesias V, Valverde M, Vodicka P, Volkovova K, Wagner KH, Zivkovic L, Dusinska M, Collins AR, Bonassi S. The hCOMET project: international database comparison of results with the comet assay in human biomonitoring. Baseline frequency of DNA damage and effect of main confounders. Mutat. Res. 2021 Jan-Jun;787:108371. doi: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2021.108371. Epub 2021 Feb 6.

Petruzella S, Bochner BH, Kenney J, Whiting K, Sadeghi K, Benfante N, Cha EK, Dalbagni G, Donahue T, Donat SM, Herr HW, Pietzak E, Orlow I, Ostroff JS, Furberg H. Examining the Accuracy of Self-Reported Smoking-Related Exposure Among Recently Diagnosed Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Patients. J Urol. 2021 May;205(5):1321-1325. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001571. Epub 2020 Dec 24.

Begg CB, Ostrovnaya I, Geyer FC, Papanastasiou AD, Ng CKY, Sakr R, Bernstein JL, Burke KA, King TA, Piscuoglio S, Mauguen A, Orlow I, Weigelt B, Seshan VE, Morrow M, Reis-Filho JS. Contralateral breast cancers: independent cancers or metastases? Int J Cancer. 2018 Jan 15;142(2):347-356. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31051. Epub 2017 Sep 28. PMCID: PMC5749409.

Orlow I, Shi Y, Kanetsky PA, Thomas NE, Luo L, Corrales Guerrero S, Cust AE, Sacchetto L, Zanetti R, Rosso S, Armstrong BK, Dwyer T, Venn A, Gallagher RP, Gruber SB, Marrett LD, Anton-Culver H, Busam K, Begg CB, Berwick M, GEM study group. The interaction between vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and sun exposure around time of diagnosis influences melanoma survival. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2018 Mar;31(2):287-296. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.12653. Epub 2017 Nov 5. PMCID: PMC5809306.

Pharoah H, Tsai Y-Y, Ramis SJ, Phelan CM, Goode EL, Lawrenson K, …, Orlow I, …, et al. GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three novel common susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer. Nat Genet. 2013;45(4):362-70, 370e1-2. PMCID: PMC3693183

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Irene Orlow, MS, DSc

Attending Biologist

Led by Dr. Irene Orlow, the Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory participates in self-initiated research & supports investigations from the Population Sciences Research and Clinical Research programs that involve handling and testing of a variety of human specimens.
University of Buenos Aires

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Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

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