Christine M. Friedenreich
Alberta Health Services
425 Papers
1.4K Citations
Christine M. Friedenreich is an academic researcher from Alberta Health Services. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 383 publications. Previous affiliations of Christine M. Friedenreich include University of Ottawa & University of Toronto.
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Papers
Correlates of adherence and contamination in a randomized controlled trial of exercise in cancer survivors: an application of the theory of planned behavior and the five factor model of personality.
TL;DR: The correlates of exercise adherence and contamination differ in kind as well as in degree, and practical implications for conducting exercise RCTs in this population are offered.
Physical activity and breast cancer risk: impact of timing, type and dose of activity and population subgroup effects
TL;DR: The effect of physical activity on the risk of breast cancer is stronger in specific population subgroups and for certain parameters of activity that need to be further explored in future intervention trials.
Medical, demographic and social cognitive correlates of physical activity in a population-based sample of colorectal cancer survivors
Amy E. Speed-Andrews,Ryan E. Rhodes,Chris M. Blanchard,S N Culos-Reed,Christine M. Friedenreich,Lisa J. Belanger,Kerry S. Courneya +6 more
TL;DR: The TPB may be a useful framework for developing population-based interventions to increase PA in CRC survivors, and higher PA was reported by survivors who were younger, unmarried, better educated, wealthier, employed, non-smokers, social drinkers and not treated with radiation therapy.
Associations of overall and abdominal adiposity with area and volumetric mammographic measures among postmenopausal women
Christy G. Woolcott,Linda S. Cook,Linda S. Cook,Kerry S. Courneya,Norman F. Boyd,Martin J. Yaffe,Tim Terry,Rollin Brant,Anne McTiernan,Heather Bryant,Anthony M. Magliocco,Christine M. Friedenreich +11 more
TL;DR: Measurements made with scans are likely sufficient for adjustment of the association between mammographic density and breast cancer risk, and adiposity is associated with breast fatty tissue and possibly weakly inversely associated with fibroglandular tissue.
Cancer incidence attributable to the use of oral contraceptives and hormone therapy in Alberta in 2012
Xin Grevers,Anne Grundy,Abbey E Poirier,Farah Khandwala,Matthew Feldman,Christine M. Friedenreich,Darren R. Brenner +6 more
- 12 Dec 2016
TL;DR: Based on estimates, oral contraceptive use resulted in a net protective effect among the cancer sites studied, thus reducing the cancer burden in Alberta in 2012.