About me
I was trained to be an oncologist during my medical education, after which I switched my focus to medical research. Since September 2018, I have been working as a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet.
Research description
My research field is cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, with a specific focus on the socio-psychological aspect. I am interested in the bi-directional link between psychological stress and cancer risk/prognosis, with an effort to integrate population-based, pharmacological, and omics data.
Selected publications:
Neuroendocrine pathways and breast cancer progression: a pooled analysis of somatic mutations and gene expression from two large breast cancer cohorts. Kejia Hu, Chengshi Wang, Chuanxu Luo, Hong Zheng, Huan Song, Jacob Bergstedt, Katja Fall, Ting Luo, Kamila Czene, Unnur A. Valdimarsdóttir, Fang Fang & Donghao Lu. BMC Cancer. volume 22, Article number: 680 (2022)
Use of Antibiotics and Risk of Psychiatric Disorders in Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Sweden. Kejia Hu, Karin E Smedby, Arvid Sjölander, Scott Montgomery, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, Lars Engstrand, Fang Fang, Katja Fall. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 Jan 13.
Aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders following a cancer diagnosis: a nationwide register-based cohort study Hu K, Sjölander A, Lu D, Walker AK, Sloan EK, Fall K, Valdimarsdóttir U, Hall P, Smedby KE, Fang F. BMC medicine 2020 18;1 238.
Sense of coherence and risk of breast cancer. Hu K, Eriksson M, Wengström Y, Czene K, Hall P, Fang F. eLife 2020 9.
OFS plus AI or SERM vs. SERM alone in premenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: a prospective cohort study using the real-world database. Hu K, He P, Peng Q, Zhong X, Deng L, Xie Y, Li J, Xu H, Lu D, Zheng H. Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) 2019 26;3 339-348
Circulating vitamin D and overall survival in breast cancer patients: a dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies. Hu K, Callen DF, Li J, Zheng H. Integrative cancer therapies 2018 17;2 217-225.
Education
2015, MD, Central South University
2018, Msc., Sichuan University