College of Public Health and Human Sciences

Susan Carozza, Ph.D.

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Susan Carozza, Ph.D.

Susan Carozza, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (retired)
susan.carozza@oregonstate.edu

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Video: "Cancer Risk in Children with Birth Defects"

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Dr. Carozza has worked in the field of public health for over twenty years, primarily in the area of cancer prevention and control. As a cancer epidemiologist, her research has focused on investigation of environmental factors for childhood cancers, with a special interest in applying geospatial techniques for measuring environmental exposures. Most recently, she has been conducting research into the complex relationship between birth defects and cancers in children.

Publications

2012

Journal Article

S. E. Carozza, Langlois, P. H., Miller, E. A., and Canfield, M., “Are Children With Birth Defects at Higher Risk of Childhood Cancers?”, American journal of epidemiology, 2012.

2011

Journal Article

K. J. Johnson, Carozza, S. E., Chow, E. J., Fox, E. E., Horel, S., McLaughlin, C. C., Mueller, B. A., Puumala, S. E., Reynolds, P., Von Behren, J., and Spector, L. G., “Birth characteristics and childhood carcinomas.”, British journal of cancer, vol. 105, no. 9, pp. 1396-401, 2011.

2010

Journal Article

J. A. Thompson, Carozza, S. E., Bissett, W. T., and Zhu, L., “Risks of childhood cancer among Texas watersheds, based on mothers' living locations at the time of birth.”, Journal of water and health, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 139-46, 2010.

P. H. Langlois, Jandle, L., Scheuerle, A., Horel, S. A., and Carozza, S. E., “Occurrence of conotruncal heart birth defects in Texas: a comparison of urban/rural classifications.”, The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 164-74, 2010.

J. Von Behren, Spector, L. G., Mueller, B. A., Carozza, S. E., Chow, E. J., Fox, E. E., Horel, S., Johnson, K. J., McLaughlin, C., Puumala, S. E., Ross, J. A., and Reynolds, P., “Birth order and risk of childhood cancer: A pooled analysis from five US States.”, International journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer, 2010.

L. C. Messer, Luben, T. J., Mendola, P., Carozza, S. E., Horel, S. A., and Langlois, P. H., “Urban-rural residence and the occurrence of cleft lip and cleft palate in Texas, 1999-2003.”, Annals of epidemiology, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 32-9, 2010.

E. J. Chow, Puumala, S. E., Mueller, B. A., Carozza, S. E., Fox, E. E., Horel, S., Johnson, K. J., McLaughlin, C. C., Reynolds, P., Von Behren, J., and Spector, L. G., “Childhood cancer in relation to parental race and ethnicity: a 5-state pooled analysis.”, Cancer, vol. 116, no. 12, pp. 3045-53, 2010.

2009

Journal Article

L. G. Spector, Puumala, S. E., Carozza, S. E., Chow, E. J., Fox, E. E., Horel, S., Johnson, K. J., McLaughlin, C. C., Reynolds, P., Von Behren, J., and Mueller, B. A., “Cancer risk among children with very low birth weights.”, Pediatrics, vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 96-104, 2009.

S. E. Carozza, Li, B., Wang, Q., Horel, S., and Cooper, S., “Agricultural pesticides and risk of childhood cancers.”, International journal of hygiene and environmental health, vol. 212, no. 2, pp. 186-95, 2009.

P. H. Langlois, Scheuerle, A., Horel, S. A., and Carozza, S. E., “Urban versus rural residence and occurrence of septal heart defects in Texas.”, Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology, vol. 85, no. 9, pp. 764-72, 2009.

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