Research Interests
Dr. Bahjat Qaqish is the principal investigator of the Data Management Core of the Breast Cancer SPORE. In this role Dr. Qaqish continues to develop new statistical methods that are directly useful to Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center members. Dr. Qaqish's correlated data analysis methods and macros are being used in three NCI-funded studies: Prescribe for Health, NC-BCSP, and the Carolina Mammography Registry.

Publications
Qaqish, B.F., Zhao, H. and Cai, J. (1997). On Case-control sampling of clustered data. Biometrika, 84, 983-6.

Marcus, P.M., Moorman, P.G., Millikan, R.C., Baird, D.D., Qaqish, B. and Newman, B. (1997). Adolescent reproductive events and subsequent breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 46, 82.

Chang, S., Hulka, B.S., Baird, D.D., Ingle, J.N., Newman, B., Graham II, M.L., Qaqish, B., Bonohue, J.H. and Melton III, L. J. (1997). Breast cancer survival and the timing of tumor removal during the menstrual cycle. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 6, 881-6.

Martin, S.L., Rieger, R.H., Kupper, L.L., Meyer, R.E., Qaqish, B.F. (1997) The effect of incarceration during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Public Health Reports, 112, 340-6.

Kinsinger, L.S., Harris, R., Qaqish, B.F., Strecher, V., Kaluzny, A. (1998). Using an office system intervention to increase breast cancer screening. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 13, 507-14.

E-mail: bahjat_qaqish@unc.edu
Telephone: (919) 966-7271
Address: 3105B McGavran-Greenberg Hall 238 Chapel Hill, NC

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