Marie-Élise Parent

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Marie-Élise Parent, M.Sc., Ph.D.

E-mail marie-elise.parent@iaf.inrs.ca

Research Interests

  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Occupational risk factors
  • Chemical exposures
  • Sexual circumstances
  • Environmental exposures
  • Socioeconomic position
  • Gene-environment interactions

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Projects

  • Quebec Research Program for Prostate Cancer Prevention
  • Occupational and non-occupational risk factors for lung cancer: analysis of a case-control study in Montréal
  • INTERPHONE: Multi-centric study of cellular phone use and tumors of the brain, salivary glands and acoustic nerve
  • INTEROCC: Occupational exposures and brain cancer
  • SYNERGY: Interaction between chemical exposures and lung cancer
  • BCG vaccination as a marker of the stimulation of the immune function in early age, and childhood asthma and diabètes
  • Gene-environment interactions and breast cancer
  • Diesel exposure and risk of colon and bladder cancer

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Publications
(Five most recent)

SPENCE, A. R., ROUSSEAU, M. C., KARAKIEWICZ, P. I. & PARENT, M. E. (2014)
Circumcision and prostate cancer: a population-based case-control study in Montreal, Canada,
BJU International,

ROUSSEAU, M.-C., CONUS, F., LI, J., PARENT, M.-E. & EL-ZEIN, M. (2014)
The Quebec BCG Vaccination Registry (1956-1992): assessing data quality and linkage with administrative health databases,
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 14, 1, 2

MCLEAN, D., FLEMING, S., TURNER, M. C., KINCL, L., RICHARDSON, L., BENKE, G., SCHLEHOFER, B., SCHLAEFER, K., PARENT, M. E., HOURS, M., KREWSKI, D., VAN TONGEREN, M., SADETZKI, S., SIEMIATYCKI, J. & CARDIS, E. (2014)
Occupational solvent exposure and risk of meningioma: results from the INTEROCC multicentre case-control study,
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 71, 4, 253-258

KACHURI, L., VILLENEUVE, P. J., PARENT, M. E., JOHNSON, K. C. & HARRIS, S. A. (2014)
Occupational exposure to crystalline silica and the risk of lung cancer in Canadian men,
International Journal of Cancer, 135, 1, 138-148

EL-ZEIN, M., PARENT, M. E., SIEMIATYCKI, J. & ROUSSEAU, M. C. (2014)
History of allergic diseases and lung cancer risk,
Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, 112, 3, 230-6

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Education

  • Postdoctoral training, Institut Armand-Frappier, University of Québec ’95-’98 (Environmental Epidemiology)
  • Ph.D. Université de Montréal ’94 (nutrition/epidemiology)
  • Annual Summer Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University ’91
  • M.Sc. University of Toronto ’88 (nutrition/epidemiology)
  • B.Sc. Université de Montréal ’84 (nutrition)

Affiliations

Scientific and Management Committees (Selected)

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