Marianne Prout

About

Dr. Prout has 30 years experience in public health and medicine with Boston University. She teaches public health courses about cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention as a public health problem and is the practicum liaison for Epidemiology. Dr. Prout's research interests focus on cancer, in particular designing cancer education course materials using new technologies, breast cancer risk and risk reduction outreach and education to minority and underserved communities, cancer screening and smoking cessation programs. She has been the site Principal Investigator at Boston Medical Center for cooperative breast cancer chemoprevention trials for 15 years. In addition to her work with BUSPH, Dr. Prout holds faculty appointments with the BU School of Medicine (BUSM) in the Sociomedical Sciences and Community Medicine and Surgery departments. She is an Associate Director for Cancer Prevention and Control at the BUSM Cancer Center, and is a founder and Associate Director of WHIRC (Women's Health Interdisciplinary Research Center).

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Incident malignancies among older long-term breast cancer survivors and an age-matched and site-matched nonbreast cancer comparison group over 10 years of follow-up.

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The effect of imaging on the clinical management of breast pain.

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Administrative data algorithms to identify second breast cancer events following early-stage invasive breast cancer.

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Aid-assisted decision making and colorectal cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial.

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The use of cancer treatment summaries and care plans among Massachusetts physicians.

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Age, Comorbidity, and Breast Cancer Severity: Impact on Receipt of Definitive Local Therapy and Rate of Recurrence among Older Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer.

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The addition of internists to a breast health program.

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The impact of a novel computer-based decision aid on shared decision making for colorectal cancer screening: a randomized trial.

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Developing and implementing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition Survivorship Summit.

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Improving Breast Cancer Control via the Use of Community Health Workers in South Africa: A Critical Review.

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Cultural competency and tobacco control training in US medical schools: many but missed opportunities.

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Breast cancer recurrence in older women five to ten years after diagnosis.

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A cost-effectiveness analysis of subject recruitment strategies in the HIPAA era: results from a colorectal cancer screening adherence trial.

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A most stubborn bias: no adjustment method fully resolves confounding by indication in observational studies.

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Referral, receipt, and completion of chemotherapy in patients with early-stage breast cancer older than 65 years and at high risk of breast cancer recurrence.

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Smoking Sleuths: a pilot tobacco prevention elective for medical school students.

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Receipt of appropriate primary breast cancer therapy and adjuvant therapy are not associated with obesity in older women with access to health care.

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Predictors of tamoxifen discontinuation among older women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer.

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Recurrences and second primary breast cancers in older women with initial early-stage disease.

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Validating medical students' self-report of smoking-related communication skills and educational experiences.

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Using probabilistic corrections to account for abstractor agreement in medical record reviews.

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Under utilization of surveillance mammography among older breast cancer survivors.

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Mortality impact of less-than-standard therapy in older breast cancer patients.

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Breast cancer treatment of older women in integrated health care settings.

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Cancer prevention trials and primary care physicians: factors associated with recommending trial enrollment.

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A novel educational strategy to enhance internal medicine residents' familial colorectal cancer knowledge and risk assessment skills.

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The primary care pediatrician's influence on medical student's performance of smoking assessments and counseling.

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What's in store for medical students? Awareness and utilization of expert nutrition guidelines among medical school preceptors.

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The cancer prevention and control research network.

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Who uses the Smoker's Quitline in Massachusetts?

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Evaluation of a cancer prevention and detection curriculum for medical students.

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On-site screening sigmoidoscopy promotes long-term utilization but fails as a venue for training primary care endoscopists.

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Should the skin cancer examination be taught in medical school?

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Participation of women in clinical trials of drug therapies: a context for the controversies.

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The New England division Tell A Friend program implementation evaluation.

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Attitudes of primary care physicians toward cancer-prevention trials: a focus group analysis.

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Involving minority and underrepresented women in clinical trials: the National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health.

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Cancer skills laboratories for medical students: a promising approach for cancer education.

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Breast cancer risk reduction: what do we know and where should we go?

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Medical students' knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices of cancer prevention and detection.

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Implementation of on-site screening sigmoidoscopy positively influences utilization by primary care providers.

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Risk factors for a decline in upper body function following treatment for early stage breast cancer.

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Head and neck cancer screening among 4611 tobacco users older than forty years.

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Cancer and poverty: breaking the cycle.

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The epidemiology of AL and AA amyloidosis.

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A multidisciplinary educational program to promote head and neck cancer screening.

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Social environment and social support.

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Advances in screening protocols for the detection of early bladder cancer.

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Years of potential life lost: another indicator of the impact of cutaneous malignant melanoma on society.

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Use of health services before diagnosis of head and neck cancer among Boston residents.

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Evaluation of melanoma/skin cancer screening in Massachusetts. Preliminary results.

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Nutrition and cancer education objectives of the American Association for Cancer Education.

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Screening for melanoma/skin cancer: theoretic and practical considerations.

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Carcinogen monitoring by DNA adduct methodology in humans: clinical perspectives for the 1990s.

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Early detection of head and neck cancer.

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Screening for cancer by residents in an internal medicine program.

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The efficient workup of suspected lung cancer.

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Thymoma and the nephrotic syndrome: a report of a case.

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Hemangiopericytoma of the bladder after polyvinyl alcohol exposure.

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Adriamycin cardiotoxicity in children: case reports, literature review, and risk factors.

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Acute leukemia complicating metastatic breast cancer.

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