Response to Lehrer

Andrea L Roberts¹, Laura D Kubzansky², Shelley S Tworoger^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
² Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
³ Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States.
⁴ Division of Oncological Sciences, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States.

Andrea L Roberts et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025.

. 2025 May 1;117(5):1088-1089.

doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaf044.

Andrea L Roberts¹, Laura D Kubzansky², Shelley S Tworoger^{3

4}

¹ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
² Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
³ Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, United States.
⁴ Division of Oncological Sciences, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.

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