Fred Tabung

Biography

My research is focused on elucidating the role of dietary patterns in cancer prevention and identifying potential biological mechanisms underlying associations of diet and cancer risk. I am specifically interested in mechanisms involving inflammation, insulin response and metabolomics, with colorectal cancer as a major endpoint. My current research efforts are supported by an R00 grant from the National Cancer Institute.

Publications

• Proinflammatory Dietary Pattern and Risk of Total and Subtypes of Breast Cancer Among U.S. Women.

  Romanos-Nanclares A, Willett WC, Rosner B, Stover DG, Sardesai SD, Holmes MD, Chen WY, Tamimi RM, Tabung FK, Eliassen AH. J Natl Cancer Inst 2024 Nov 20

• Metabolic phenotype and risk of obesity-related cancers in the Women's Health Initiative.

  Karra P, Hardikar S, Winn M, Anderson GL, Haaland B, Shadyab AH, Neuhouser ML, Seguin-Fowler RA, Thomson CA, Coday M, Wactawski-Wende J, Stefanick ML, Zhang X, Cheng TD, Karanth S, Sun Y, Saquib N, Pichardo MS, Jung SY, Tabung FK, Summers SA, Holland WL, Jalili T, Gunter MJ, Playdon MC. Cancer Prev Res (Phila) 2024 Nov 14

• Novel metabolomic predictors of incident colorectal cancer in men and women.

  Downie JM, Joshi AD, Geraghty CM, Guercio BJ, Zeleznik OA, Song M, Bever AM, Drew DA, Tabung FK, Zhang X, Jin L, Eliassen AH, Willett WC, Wu K, Kraft P, Tamimi R, Clish C, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci E, Meyerhardt JA, Chan AT. J Natl Cancer Inst 2024 Oct 28

• Dietary and lifestyle insulinemic potentials, plasma metabolome, and risk of diverticulitis: a prospective cohort study.

  Ha J, Wu Y, Lee DH, Tabung FK, Giovannucci EL, Strate LL, Ma W, Chan AT. Am J Clin Nutr 2024

• Association between Inflammatory Dietary Pattern and Mammographic Features.

  Azam S, Asad S, Chitnis SD, Collier KA, Kensler KH, Sudheendra P, Pariser A, Romanos-Nanclares A, Eliassen H, Sardesai S, Heine J, Tabung FK, Tamimi RM, Stover DG. J Nutr 2024