Xiaowei Yan
Henry Ford Health System
4 Papers
43 Citations
Xiaowei Yan is an academic researcher from Henry Ford Health System. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications. Previous affiliations of Xiaowei Yan include Geisinger Medical Center.
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Papers
Expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 as a marker of mammary stem cells in benign and malignant breast lesions of Ghanaian women.
Theresa Schwartz,Azadeh Stark,Azadeh Stark,Azadeh Stark,Judy C. Pang,Baffour Awuah,Celina G. Kleer,Solomon Quayson,Stephanie Kingman,Francis Aitpillah,Francis A. Abantanga,Evelyn Jiagge,Joseph K. Oppong,Ernest Osei-Bonsu,Iman K. Martin,Xiaowei Yan,Kathy A. Toy,Ernest Adjei,Max S. Wicha,Lisa A. Newman +19 more
TL;DR: Novel data is reported regarding ALDH1 expression in benign and cancerous breast tissue of Ghanaian women.
Disease-free probability after the first primary ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast: a comparison between African-American and White-American women.
Azadeh Stark,Azadeh Stark,Azadeh Stark,Robert Stapp,Aditya Raghunathan,Xiaowei Yan,H. Lester Kirchner,Jennifer J. Griggs,Lisa A. Newman,Dhananjay Chitale,Andrew W. Dick +10 more
TL;DR: Despite comparable clinical presentation and treatment, 8 years after the initial treatment, AAs experienced a higher risk of second breast cancer in ipsilateral but not in the contralateral breast, and the observed excess risk of a second cancer in the ips bilateral breast may suggest of intrinsic differences in the biology of cancer.
•Journal Article
Breast Cancer Chemoprevention in Primary Care- Assessing Readiness for Change
Haiyun Wang,Claire Frances Snyder,Sharon Larson,Victor G. Vogel,H. Lester Kirchner,Haiyan Sun,Xiaowei Yan +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an online survey to investigate primary care providers' awareness and use of breast cancer chemoprevention, and perceived barriers/solutions, and found that only 9% of the providers prescribed breast cancer drugs in the past year.
PS2-41: The FTO Gene, Its Variants and Post-menopausal Breast Cancer
TL;DR: A pilot study attempting to evaluate the association between SNPs of the of FTO gene with PMBC, independent of BMI or other risk factors for PMBC found one SNP was found to be likely associated withPMBC, but the present small sample size eclipses the power of identifying a definite association.