Using data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, Jongeun Rhee, Vicky Chang, Mark Purdue, and Jonathan Hofmann in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch led the first study to explore the relationship between PFAS and kidney cancer in different racial and ethnic groups.| dceg.cancer.gov
Jonathan Hofmann and collaborators find that perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is associated with increased risk of kidney cancer in cohort with PFAS concentrations comparable to those found in the general population.| dceg.cancer.gov
Dr. Jonathan Hofmann focuses his research on understanding the carcinogenic potential of pesticides and other agricultural exposures and PFAS. He also uses molecular epidemiologic approaches to investigate the etiology and natural history of multiple myeloma and its precursor monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS).| dceg.cancer.gov