Beatrice Boucher, BSc, MHSc
Lecturer
Departments of Nutritional Sciences
and Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Ph: 416.971.9800 Ext: 3238
Fax: 416.971.7554
beatrice.boucher@cancercare.on.ca



Primary Affiliations

• Cancer Care Ontario                                                 
• Department of Nutritional Sciences

Other Affiliations

• Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Research

• My research focuses on the measurement of diet and its association with cancer risk in populations. We have conducted studies examining dietary assessment methods and nutrient databases, including developing, validating, and assessing the burden of food frequency questionnaires. Other work focuses on dietary factors and cancer risk, use of alternative dietary supplements, and the effectiveness of dietary interventions.                                              

Recent Publications:                                                   

• Anderson LN, Cotterchio M, Boucher BA. Lecithin supplements and breast cancer risk. Epidemiology, 22:444-6, 2011 (online May 2011 doi10.1097/EDE.0b013e31821085ea).
  
  
• Hamidi M, Boucher BA, Cheung AM, Beyene J, Shah PS. Fruit and vegetable intake and bone health in women aged 45 and over: a systematic review. Osteoporosis International 22:1681-93, 2011 (online 16Dec 2010 DOI 10.1007/s00198-010-1510-0).
  
  
• Brenner DR, Boucher BA, Kreiger N, Jenkins DJ, El-Sohemy A. Dietary patterns in an ethnoculturally diverse population of young Canadian adults. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research (in press).
  
  
• Boucher BA. Dietary supplements, quality scores and missing data in the review of validation studies. British Journal of Nutrition, 104: 1878-9, 2010.
  
  
• Anderson LN, Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Knight JA, Block T. Vitamin D intake from food and supplements among Ontario women based on the US Block Food Frequency Questionnaire with and without modification for Canadian food values.Canadian Journal of Public Health, 101: 318-21, 2010. 
  
  
• Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey A, Harper P. Red meat intake, doneness, polymorphisms in genes that encode carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 17: 3098-107, 2008.
  
  
• Boucher BA, Thompson LU, Kreiger N, Cotterchio M.  Hormone-related supplements and breast cancer risk: Need for improved measurement of supplement use. International Journal of Cancer, 123: 2465-6, 2008.
  
  
• Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Kreiger N, Mills C, Thompson LU. Dietary phytoestrogen intake – lignans and isoflavones - and breast cancer risk (Canada). Cancer Causes and Control, 19: 259-72, 2008.
• Boucher BA, Cotterchio M, Kreiger N, Thompson LU.  Soy formula and breast cancer risk. Epidemiology, 19:165-6, 2008.
  
  
• Thompson LU, Boucher BA, Cotterchio M, Kreiger N, Liu Z. Dietary phytoestrogens including isoflavones, lignans, and coumestrol in non-vitamin non-mineral supplements commonly consumed by women in Canada. Nutrition and Cancer, 59(2): 176-184, 2007.
  
  
• Pakzad K, Boucher BA, Kreiger N, Cotterchio M.  The use of herbal and other non-vitamin, non-mineral supplements among pre- and post-menopausal women in Ontario.  Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98: 383-388, 2007.
  
  
• Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey A, Harper P.  Dietary phytoestrogen intake is associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk.  Journal of Nutrition, 136: 3046-3053, 2006.
  
  
• Thanos J, Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Kreiger N, Thompson LU. Adolescent dietary phytoestrogen intake and breast cancer risk (Canada). Cancer Causes and Control, 17: 1253-1261, 2006.
  
  
• Thompson LU, Boucher BA, Liu Z, Cotterchio M, Kreiger N. Phytoestrogen content of foods consumed in Canada, including isoflavones, lignans and coumestan. Nutrition and Cancer, 54(2): 184-201, 2006.
  
  
• Boucher B, Cotterchio M, Kreiger N, Nadalin V, Block T, Block G. Validity and reliability of the Block98 food-frequency questionnaire in a sample of Canadian women.  Public Health Nutrition, 9(1): 84-93, 2006.

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