Alison Canchola
Biostatistician
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MS Biostatistics University of California Los Angeles 06/1992
• BA Mathematics Pomona College 05/1990

Publications (79)

Top publication keywords:
Proportional Hazards ModelsColorectal NeoplasmsBody BurdenEndometrial NeoplasmsCaliforniaBreast NeoplasmsFacultyDietNeoplasms, Second PrimaryObesityEstrogen Replacement TherapyBody SizeAdenocarcinoma, PapillaryResidence CharacteristicsRegistries

• Nativity and Healthy Lifestyle Index in a Pooled Cohort of Female Breast Cancer Survivors from Northern California.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2025 Aoki RL, Alexeeff SE, Caan BJ, Kushi LH, Gomez SL, Torres JM, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Kroenke CH
• Associations Between Immigrant Status and Dietary Patterns in ENCLAVE, A Pooled, Observational Study of Women Diagnosed With Breast Cancer.
  The Journal of nutrition 2025 Kroenke CH, Aoki R, Kushi LH, Torres JM, Morey BN, Gomez S, Caan B, Canchola AJ, Alexeeff S
• Disparities in Cancer Stage Shifts Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic in California, 2020 to 2021.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2025 Wang K, Canchola AJ, McKinley M, Guan A, Vu A, Lin K, Meltzer D, Dixit N, Chu JN, Idossa D, Van Blarigan EL, Cheng I, Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL
• Racial and Ethnic Variation in Survival in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer.
  JAMA network open 2024 Demb J, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Qian A, Murphy JD, Winn RA, Banegas MP, Gupta S, Martinez ME
• Latino Enclaves and Healthcare Accessibility: An Ecologic Study Across Five States.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Guan A, Shariff-Marco S, Henry KA, Lin K, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Arizpe A, Rathod AB, Hughes AE, Kroenke CH, Gomez SL, Hiatt RA, Stroup AM, Pinheiro PS, Boscoe F, Zhu H, Pruitt SL

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• Acculturating to multiculturalism: a new dimension of dietary acculturation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
  BMC public health 2024 Tan JY, Guan A, Albers AE, Canchola AJ, Allen L, Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL
• A validation study for measuring Asian- and Hispanic-serving sociocultural institutions in neighborhoods using business listing data and potential implications for health.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2024 Morey BN, Garcia S, Lin K, Canchola AJ, Alexeeff SE, Kurtovich EM, Uong S, Aoki RF, Guan A, Torres JM, Shariff-Marco S, Yao S, Kushi LH, Gomez SL, Kroenke CH
• Asian American Enclaves and Healthcare Accessibility: An Ecologic Study Across Five States.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2023 Guan A, Pruitt SL, Henry KA, Lin K, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Rathod AB, Hughes AE, Kroenke CH, Gomez SL, Hiatt RA, Stroup AM, Pinheiro PS, Boscoe FP, Zhu H, Shariff-Marco S
• Neighborhood-level COVID vaccination and booster disparities: A population-level analysis across California.
  SSM - population health 2023 Oh DL, Kemper KE, Meltzer D, Canchola AJ, Bibbins-Domingo K, Lyles CR
• Neighborhood socioeconomic status and the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening outreach with mailed fecal immunochemical tests within a safety net healthcare system in San Francisco, CA: A subgroup analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
  Preventive medicine 2022 McClellan SP, Canchola AJ, Potter MB, Gomez SL, Somsouk M
• Neighborhood Factors Associated with COVID-19 Cases in California.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2022 Oh DL, Meltzer D, Wang K, Canchola AJ, DeRouen MC, McDaniels-Davidson C, Gibbons J, Carvajal-Carmona L, Nodora JN, Hill L, Gomez SL, Martinez ME
• Improved survival in cervical cancer patients receiving care at National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers.
  Cancer 2022 McDaniels-Davidson C, Feng CH, Martinez ME, Canchola AJ, Gomez SL, Nodora JN, Patel SP, Mundt AJ, Mayadev JS
• Changes in Cancer Mortality by Race and Ethnicity Following the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act in California.
  Frontiers in oncology 2022 Martinez ME, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Oh DL, Murphy JD, Mehtsun W, Yabroff KR, Banegas MP
• Health care utilization among women of reproductive age living in public housing: Associations across six public housing sites in San Francisco.
  Preventive medicine reports 2022 Headen IE, Dubbin L, Canchola AJ, Kersten E, Yen IH
• Home mortgage discrimination and incidence of triple-negative and Luminal A breast cancer among non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White females in California, 2006-2015.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2022 Michaels EK, Canchola AJ, Beyer KMM, Zhou Y, Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL
• Incidence of Lung Cancer Among Never-Smoking Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Females.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2022 DeRouen MC, Canchola AJ, Thompson CA, Jin A, Nie S, Wong C, Lichtensztajn D, Allen L, Patel MI, Daida YG, Luft HS, Shariff-Marco S, Reynolds P, Wakelee HA, Liang SY, Waitzfelder BE, Cheng I, Gomez SL
• Evaluating the Impact of Social and Built Environments on Health-Related Quality of Life among Cancer Survivors.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2021 Chu JN, Canchola AJ, Keegan THM, Nickell A, Oakley-Girvan I, Hamilton AS, Yu RL, Gomez SL, Shariff-Marco S
• Individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status and risk of aggressive breast cancer subtypes in a pooled cohort of women from Kaiser Permanente Northern California.
  Cancer 2021 Aoki RF, Uong SP, Gomez SL, Alexeeff SE, Caan BJ, Kushi LH, Torres JM, Guan A, Canchola AJ, Morey BN, Lin K, Kroenke CH
• Integrating Electronic Health Record, Cancer Registry, and Geospatial Data to Study Lung Cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnic Groups.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2021 DeRouen MC, Thompson CA, Canchola AJ, Jin A, Nie S, Wong C, Jain J, Lichtensztajn DY, Li Y, Allen L, Patel MI, Daida YG, Luft HS, Shariff-Marco S, Reynolds P, Wakelee HA, Liang SY, Waitzfelder BE, …
• Neighborhood Contexts and Breast Cancer Among Asian American Women.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2021 Morey BN, Gee GC, Wang MC, von Ehrenstein OS, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Lee SS, Bautista R, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL
• Integration of electronic pathology reporting with clinical trial matching for advanced prostate cancer.
  Urologic oncology 2021 Borno HT, Duffy C, Zhang S, Canchola AJ, Loya Z, Golden T, Oh DL, Odisho AY, Gomez S
• Egocentric social networks, lifestyle behaviors, and body size in the Asian Community Health Initiative (CHI) cohort.
  PloS one 2020 Kroenke CH, Le GM, Conroy SM, Canchola AJ, Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL
• Changes in Colorectal Cancer 5-Year Survival Disparities in California, 1997-2014.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2020 Oh DL, Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Canchola AJ, Ellis L, Tao L, Gomez SL
• Age-related differences in breast cancer mortality according to race/ethnicity, insurance, and socioeconomic status.
  BMC cancer 2020 San Miguel Y, Gomez SL, Murphy JD, Schwab RB, McDaniels-Davidson C, Canchola AJ, Molinolo AA, Nodora JN, Martinez ME
• Nativity, ethnic enclave residence, and breast cancer survival among Latinas: Variations between California and Texas.
  Cancer 2020 Shariff-Marco S, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Fullington H, Hughes AE, Zhu H, Pruitt SL
• Urinary cadmium and timing of menarche and pubertal development in girls.
  Environmental research 2020 Reynolds P, Canchola AJ, Duffy CN, Hurley S, Neuhausen SL, Horn-Ross PL, Rull RP
• Reply to Residual confounding threatens the validity of observational studies on breast cancer local therapy.
  Cancer 2020 Kurian AW, Canchola AJ, Gomez SL
• Association of change in the neighborhood obesogenic environment with colorectal cancer risk: The Multiethnic Cohort Study.
  SSM - population health 2019 Shvetsov YB, Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, Conroy SM, Canchola AJ, Albright CL, Park SY, Monroe KR, Le Marchand L, Gomez SL, Wilkens LR, Cheng I
• Magnitude of reduction in risk of second contralateral breast cancer with bilateral mastectomy in patients with breast cancer: Data from California, 1998 through 2015.
  Cancer 2019 Kurian AW, Canchola AJ, Ma CS, Clarke CA, Gomez SL
• Race/Ethnicity and Accuracy of Self-Reported Female First-Degree Family History of Breast and Other Cancers in the Northern California Breast Cancer Family Registry.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2019 John EM, Canchola AJ, Sangaramoorthy M, Koo J, Whittemore AS, West DW
• Higher Breast Cancer Risk Among Immigrant Asian American Women Than Among US-Born Asian American Women.
  Preventing chronic disease 2019 Morey BN, Gee GC, von Ehrenstein OS, Shariff-Marco S, Canchola AJ, Yang J, Allen L, Lee SS, Bautista R, La Chica T, Tseng W, Chang P, Gomez SL
• Breast Cancer Mortality in Older and Younger Patients in California.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2018 Tao L, Schwab RB, San Miguel Y, Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Gago-Dominguez M, Komenaka IK, Murphy JD, Molinolo AA, Martinez ME
• Factors Associated With Treatment of Clinical Stage I Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer: A Population-based Analysis.
  Clinical lung cancer 2018 Berry MF, Canchola AJ, Gensheimer MF, Gomez SL, Cheng I
• Trends in Cancer Survival by Health Insurance Status in California From 1997 to 2014.
  JAMA oncology 2018 Ellis L, Canchola AJ, Spiegel D, Ladabaum U, Haile R, Gomez SL
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Survival: The Contribution of Tumor, Sociodemographic, Institutional, and Neighborhood Characteristics.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017 Ellis L, Canchola AJ, Spiegel D, Ladabaum U, Haile R, Gomez SL
• Association between the neighborhood obesogenic environment and colorectal cancer risk in the Multiethnic Cohort.
  Cancer epidemiology 2017 Canchola AJ, Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, Albright C, Hertz A, Park SY, Shvetsov YB, Monroe KR, Le Marchand L, Gomez SL, Wilkens LR, Cheng I
• Evaluating disease prediction models using a cohort whose covariate distribution differs from that of the target population.
  Statistical methods in medical research 2017 Powers S, McGuire V, Bernstein L, Canchola AJ, Whittemore AS
• Regular and low-dose aspirin, other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications and prospective risk of HER2-defined breast cancer: the California Teachers Study.
  Breast cancer research : BCR 2017 Clarke CA, Canchola AJ, Moy LM, Neuhausen SL, Chung NT, Lacey JV, Bernstein L
• Variation in risk and outcomes of Epstein-Barr virus-associated breast cancer by epidemiologic characteristics and virus detection strategies: an exploratory study.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2017 Glaser SL, Canchola AJ, Keegan TH, Clarke CA, Longacre TA, Gulley ML
• Recent declines in cancer incidence: related to the Great Recession?
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2017 Gomez SL, Canchola AJ, Nelson DO, Keegan TH, Clarke CA, Cheng I, Shariff-Marco S, DeRouen M, Catalano R, Satariano WA, Davidson-Allen K, Glaser SL
• Lifetime body size and estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer risk in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Breast cancer research : BCR 2016 Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, Bernstein L, Neuhausen SL, Nelson DO, Reynolds P
• Body size over the life-course and the risk of endometrial cancer: the California Teachers Study.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2016 Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, Bernstein L, Deapen D, Lacey JV, Lee E, Nelson DO, Reynolds P
• Equivalent survival after nipple-sparing compared to non-nipple-sparing mastectomy: data from California, 1988-2013.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2016 Kurian AW, Canchola AJ, Gomez SL, Clarke CA
• Parity and Oral Contraceptive Use in Relation to Ovarian Cancer Risk in Older Women.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2016 McGuire V, Hartge P, Liao LM, Sinha R, Bernstein L, Canchola AJ, Anderson GL, Stefanick ML, Whittemore AS
• Differences in marital status and mortality by race/ethnicity and nativity among California cancer patients.
  Cancer 2016 Martínez ME, Anderson K, Murphy JD, Hurley S, Canchola AJ, Keegan TH, Cheng I, Clarke CA, Glaser SL, Gomez SL
• Effects of marital status and economic resources on survival after cancer: A population-based study.
  Cancer 2016 Gomez SL, Hurley S, Canchola AJ, Keegan TH, Cheng I, Murphy JD, Clarke CA, Glaser SL, Martínez ME
• Strategies for recruiting representative samples of Asian Americans for a population-based case-control study.
  Journal of epidemiology and community health 2016 Wong CK, Horn-Ross PL, Gee GC, Shariff-Marco S, Quach T, Allen L, Bautista R, La Chica PQ, Tseng W, Chang P, Clarke CA, Yang J, Le GM, Canchola A, Irwin ML, Lee SS, Gomez SL
• Text Messaging May Improve Abnormal Mammogram Follow-Up in Latinas.
  Oncology nursing forum 2016 Oakley-Girvan I, Londono C, Canchola A, Watkins Davis S
• Dietary patterns and endometrial cancer risk in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2015 Canchola AJ, Lacey JV, Bernstein L, Horn-Ross PL
• Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  The American journal of clinical nutrition 2013 Link LB, Canchola AJ, Bernstein L, Clarke CA, Stram DO, Ursin G, Horn-Ross PL
• Determinants and within-person variability of urinary cadmium concentrations among women in northern California.
  Environmental health perspectives 2013 Gunier RB, Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, Duffy CN, Reynolds P, Hertz A, Garcia E, Rull RP
• Recreational physical activity and risk of papillary thyroid cancer among women in the California Teachers Study.
  Cancer epidemiology 2012 Cash SW, Ma H, Horn-Ross PL, Reynolds P, Canchola AJ, Sullivan-Halley J, Beresford SA, Neuhouser ML, Vaughan TL, Heagerty PJ, Bernstein L
• Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women following the cessation of hormone therapy use: the California Teachers Study.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2012 Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, Bernstein L, Clarke CA, Lacey JV, Neuhausen SL, Reynolds P, Ursin G
• Body size and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2012 Canchola AJ, Anton-Culver H, Bernstein L, Clarke CA, Henderson K, Ma H, Ursin G, Horn-Ross PL
• Hormonal factors and the risk of papillary thyroid cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2011 Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, Ma H, Reynolds P, Bernstein L
• Adulthood residential ultraviolet radiation, sun sensitivity, dietary vitamin D, and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study.
  Blood 2011 Chang ET, Canchola AJ, Cockburn M, Lu Y, Wang SS, Bernstein L, Clarke CA, Horn-Ross PL
• Dietary phytocompounds and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2010 Chang ET, Canchola AJ, Clarke CA, Lu Y, West DW, Bernstein L, Wang SS, Horn-Ross PL
• Alcohol consumption over time and risk of lymphoid malignancies in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  American journal of epidemiology 2010 Chang ET, Clarke CA, Canchola AJ, Lu Y, Wang SS, Ursin G, West DW, Bernstein L, Horn-Ross PL
• Body size and the risk of ovarian cancer by hormone therapy use in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2010 Canchola AJ, Chang ET, Bernstein L, Largent JA, Reynolds P, Deapen D, Henderson KD, Ursin G, Horn-Ross PL
• Body size and the risk of endometrial cancer by hormone therapy use in postmenopausal women in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2010 Canchola AJ, Chang ET, Bernstein L, Largent JA, Reynolds P, Deapen D, Ursin G, Horn-Ross PL
• Dietary assessment in the California Teachers Study: reproducibility and validity.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2008 Horn-Ross PL, Lee VS, Collins CN, Stewart SL, Canchola AJ, Lee MM, Reynolds P, Clarke CA, Bernstein L, Stram DO
• Dietary patterns and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Nutrition and cancer 2008 Chang ET, Lee VS, Canchola AJ, Dalvi TB, Clarke CA, Reynolds P, Purdie DM, Stram DO, West DW, Ziogas A, Bernstein L, Horn-Ross PL
• Dietary patterns, Mediterranean diet, and endometrial cancer risk.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2007 Dalvi TB, Canchola AJ, Horn-Ross PL
• Wine and other alcohol consumption and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2007 Chang ET, Canchola AJ, Lee VS, Clarke CA, Purdie DM, Reynolds P, Bernstein L, Stram DO, Anton-Culver H, Deapen D, Mohrenweiser H, Peel D, Pinder R, Ross RK, West DW, Wright W, Ziogas A, Horn-Ross PL
• Diet and risk of ovarian cancer in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  American journal of epidemiology 2007 Chang ET, Lee VS, Canchola AJ, Clarke CA, Purdie DM, Reynolds P, Anton-Culver H, Bernstein L, Deapen D, Peel D, Pinder R, Ross RK, Stram DO, West DW, Wright W, Ziogas A, Horn-Ross PL
• Reliability and validity of an assessment of usual phytoestrogen consumption (United States).
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2006 Horn-Ross PL, Barnes S, Lee VS, Collins CN, Reynolds P, Lee MM, Stewart SL, Canchola AJ, Wilson L, Jones K
• Risk of second primary malignancies in women with papillary thyroid cancer.
  American journal of epidemiology 2006 Canchola AJ, Horn-Ross PL, Purdie DM
• HIV prevalence and risk factors among fishermen in Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 2004 Samnang P, Leng HB, Kim A, Canchola A, Moss A, Mandel JS, Page-Shafer K
• Patterns of alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in the California Teachers Study cohort.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2004 Horn-Ross PL, Canchola AJ, West DW, Stewart SL, Bernstein L, Deapen D, Pinder R, Ross RK, Anton-Culver H, Peel D, Ziogas A, Reynolds P, Wright W
• Phytoestrogen intake and endometrial cancer risk.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 Horn-Ross PL, John EM, Canchola AJ, Stewart SL, Lee MM
• Accuracy of diagnoses of HIV-related oral lesions by medical clinicians. Findings from the Women's Interagency HIV Study.
  Community dentistry and oral epidemiology 2001 Hilton JF, Alves M, Anastos K, Canchola AJ, Cohen M, Delapenha R, Greenspan D, Levine A, MacPhail LA, Micci SJ, Mulligan R, Navazesh M, Phelan J, Tsaknis P
• Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on frequency of oral warts.
  Lancet (London, England) 2001 Greenspan D, Canchola AJ, MacPhail LA, Cheikh B, Greenspan JS
• Oral manifestations and dental status in paediatric HIV infection.
  International journal of paediatric dentistry 2000 Ramos-Gomez FJ, Petru A, Hilton JF, Canchola AJ, Wara D, Greenspan JS
• Association of cutaneous and oral diseases in HIV-infected men.
  Oral diseases 1998 Mirowski GW, Hilton JF, Greenspan D, Canchola AJ, MacPhail LA, Maurer T, Berger TG, Greenspan JS
• Effect of cigarette smoking on HIV-related oral lesions.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association 1997 Palacio H, Hilton JF, Canchola AJ, Greenspan D
• Development of oral lesions in human immunodeficiency virus-infected transfusion recipients and hemophiliacs.
  American journal of epidemiology 1997 Hilton JF, Donegan E, Katz MH, Canchola AJ, Fusaro RE, Greenspan D, Greenspan JS
• Risk factors for HIV-related orofacial soft-tissue manifestations in children.
  Pediatric dentistry 1996 Ramos-Gomez FJ, Hilton JF, Canchola AJ, Greenspan D, Greenspan JS, Maldonado YA
• T-cell proliferative response to human papillomavirus type 16 peptides: relationship to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
  Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology 1996 Nakagawa M, Stites DP, Farhat S, Judd A, Moscicki AB, Canchola AJ, Hilton JF, Palefsky JM
• Time from HIV seroconversion to oral candidiasis or hairy leukoplakia among homosexual and bisexual men enrolled in three prospective cohorts.
  AIDS (London, England) 1994 Lifson AR, Hilton JF, Westenhouse JL, Canchola AJ, Samuel MC, Katz MH, Buchbinder SP, Hessol NA, Osmond DH, Shiboski S