Vitamin D Pathway Genes, Diet, and Risk of Renal Cell Carcinoma (2010)
S. Karami, P. Brennan, M. Navratilova, D. Mates, D. Zaridze, V. Janout, ...
Mediated by binding to the high-affinity vitamin D receptor (VDR), vitamin D forms a heterodimer complex with the retinoid-X-receptor (RXR). Variation in both genes has been shown to modify renal...
The causes of cancer in France (2009)
Boffetta, P., Tubiana, M., Hill, C., Boniol, M., Aurengo, A., Masse, R., ...
Background: While external factors are responsible for many human cancers, precise estimates of the contribution of known carcinogens to the cancer burden in a given population have been scarce....
Karami, S., Boffetta, P., Rothman, N., Hung, R. J., Stewart, T., Zaridze, D., ...
This study investigated associations between occupational pesticide exposure and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) risk. To follow-up on a previous report by Buzio et al., we also considered whether this...
Moore, L.E., Brennan, P., Karami, S., Hung, R.J., Hsu, C., Boffetta, P., ...
High consumption of cruciferous vegetables has been associated with reduced kidney cancer risk in many studies. Isothiocyanates, thought to be responsible for the chemopreventive properties of this...
Epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma: a review (2007)
The epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma is complicated by possible geographic and temporal variations in diagnostic practices. The incidence rates in industrialized countries range between 0.5...
Bosetti, C, Boffetta, P, La Vecchia, C
Background: Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been reported in several industries, including those of the aluminum production, coal gasification, coke production, iron and steel...
Richiardi, L, Mirabelli, D, Calisti, R, Ottino, A, Ferrando, A, Boffetta, P, ...
Background: We studied the effect of exposure to diesel exhausts on lung cancer risk in a population-based case–control study in the city of Turin, Italy. Patients and methods: Information on...
Hassan, R, Alexander, R, Antman, K, Boffetta, P, Churg, A, Coit, D, ...
Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the peritoneum with about 250 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. It is the second most common site for mesothelioma development and...
Hassan, R., Alexander, R., Antman, K., Boffetta, P., Churg, A., Coit, D., ...
Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the peritoneum with about 250 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. It is the second most common site for mesothelioma development and...
Bosetti, C., Boffetta, P., La Vecchia, C.
Background: Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been reported in several industries, including those of the aluminum production, coal gasification, coke production, iron and steel...
Richiardi, L., Mirabelli, D., Calisti, R., Ottino, A., Ferrando, A., Boffetta, P., ...
Background: We studied the effect of exposure to diesel exhausts on lung cancer risk in a population-based case-control study in the city of Turin, Italy. Patients and methods: Information on...
Epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma: a review (2006)
The epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma is complicated by possible geographic and temporal variations in diagnostic practices. The incidence rates in industrialized countries range between 0.5...
Meta- and Pooled Analysis of GSTT1 and Lung Cancer: A HuGE-GSEC Review (2006)
Raimondi, S, Paracchini, V, Autrup, H, Barros-Dios, JM, Benhamou, S, Boffetta, P, ...
Lung cancer is the most common malignancy in the Western world, and the main risk factor is tobacco smoking. Polymorphisms in metabolic genes may modulate the risk associated with environmental...
Lung Fibre Burden in Lung Cancer Cases Employed in the Rock and Slag Wool Industry (2006)
SOLDAN, K., POOLEY, F. D., HANSEN, J., ANDERSEN, A., CHANG-CLAUDE, J., FERRO, G., ...
Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between estimated exposure to man-made vitreous fibres (MMVF) and to asbestos fibres and their concentration in the lung tissue of lung cancer cases amongst...
Hassan, R., Alexander, R., Antman, K., Boffetta, P., Churg, A., Coit, D., ...
Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the peritoneum with about 250 new cases diagnosed each year in the United States. It is the second most common site for mesothelioma development and...
Bosetti, C., Boffetta, P., La Vecchia, C.
Background: Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been reported in several industries, including those of the aluminum production, coal gasification, coke production, iron and steel...
Richiardi, L., Mirabelli, D., Calisti, R., Ottino, A., Ferrando, A., Boffetta, P., ...
Background: We studied the effect of exposure to diesel exhausts on lung cancer risk in a population-based case-control study in the city of Turin, Italy. Patients and methods: Information on...
Epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma: a review (2006)
The epidemiology of peritoneal mesothelioma is complicated by possible geographic and temporal variations in diagnostic practices. The incidence rates in industrialized countries range between 0.5...
Second primary cancers among 109 000 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (2005)
Brennan, P, Scélo, G, Hemminki, K, Mellemkjaer, L, Tracey, E, Andersen, A, ...
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Second primary malignancies in patients with male breast cancer (2005)
Hemminki, K, Scélo, G, Boffetta, P, Mellemkjaer, L, Tracey, E, Andersen, A, ...
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Dietary patterns among older Europeans: the EPIC-Elderly study. (2005)
Bamia, C., Orfanos, P., Ferrari, P., Overvad, K., Hundborg, H.H., Tjønneland, A., ...
Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study. (2005)
Trichopoulou, A., Orfanos, P., Norat, T., Ocke, M.C., Peeters, P.H.M., ...
Lung Fibre Burden in Lung Cancer Cases Employed in the Rock and Slag Wool Industry (2005)
Soldan, K., Pooley, F. D., Hansen, J., Andersen, A., Chang-Claude, J., Ferro, G., ...
Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between estimated exposure to man-made vitreous fibres (MMVF) and to asbestos fibres and their concentration in the lung tissue of lung cancer cases amongst...
Amount of DNA in plasma and cancer risk: a prospective study. (2004)
Gormally, E., Hainaut, P., Caboux, E., Airoldi, L., Autrup, H., Malaveille, C., ...
European Code Against Cancer and scientific justification: third version (2003) (2003)
Boyle, P., Autier, P., Bartelink, H., Baselga, J., Boffetta, P., Burn, J., ...
Carel, R., Boffetta, P., Kauppinen, T., Teschke, K., Andersen, A., Jappinen, P., ...
We studied the mortality from lung and pleural cancers in a cohort of 62,937 male workers employed for at least 1 year in the pulp and paper industry in 13 countries during 1945 to 1996. Mill...
Donato, F., Tagger, A., Gelatti, U., Parrinello, G., Boffetta, P., Albertini, A., ...
The authors investigated the dose-effect relation between alcohol drinking and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in men and women separately, also considering hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus...
Boffetta, P, Agudo, A, Ahrens, W, Benhamou, E, Benhamou, S, Darby, SC, ...
Avoided and avoidable risks of cancer (1997)
Tomatis, L, Huff, J, Hertz-Picciotto, I, Sandler, DP, Bucher, J, Boffetta, P, ...
Cancer risk for European asphalt workers. (1995)
Partanen, T.J., Boffetta, P., Heikkila, P.R., Frentzel-Beyme, R.R., Heederik, D., Hours, M., ...
Vena, J, Boffetta, P, Becher, H, Benn, T, Coggon, D, ...
The authors studied noncancer mortality among phenoxyacid herbicide and chlorophenol production workers and sprayers included in an international study comprising 36 cohorts from 12 countries...
Introduction: Epidemiologic research and prevention of occupational cancer in Europe.
Research on occupational cancer epidemiology has been an important area of occupational health in Europe since the early studies were conducted in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s. During...
Occupational cancer in the European part of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Precise information on the number of workers currently exposed to carcinogens in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is lacking. However, the large number of workers employed in high-risk...
Occupational cancer in central European countries.
Fabiánová, E, Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N, Kjaerheim, K, Boffetta, P
The countries of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, suffer from environmental and occupational health problems created during the...
This monograph summarizes the current research on the epidemiology and prevention of occupational cancer in Europe. Eleven peer-reviewed articles offer a composite view of the current status and...
Biopersistence of respirable synthetic fibers and minerals: the point of view of the epidemiologist.
Biopersistence of fibers and minerals in human respiratory tissues is an important aspect of the toxicity of these agents. However, few data are available from human studies. Although a number of...
Boffetta, P, Trédaniel, J, Greco, A
We identified more than 30 studies on the association between exposure to maternal tobacco smoke during pregnancy and cancer in childhood. We combined their results in meta-analyses based on a random...
Vena, J, Boffetta, P, Becher, H, Benn, T, Coggon, D, ...
The authors studied noncancer mortality among phenoxyacid herbicide and chlorophenol production workers and sprayers included in an international study comprising 36 cohorts from 12 countries...
Introduction: Epidemiologic research and prevention of occupational cancer in Europe.
Research on occupational cancer epidemiology has been an important area of occupational health in Europe since the early studies were conducted in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s. During...
Occupational cancer in the European part of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Precise information on the number of workers currently exposed to carcinogens in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is lacking. However, the large number of workers employed in high-risk...
Occupational cancer in central European countries.
Fabiánová, E, Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N, Kjaerheim, K, Boffetta, P
The countries of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, suffer from environmental and occupational health problems created during the...
This monograph summarizes the current research on the epidemiology and prevention of occupational cancer in Europe. Eleven peer-reviewed articles offer a composite view of the current status and...
Biopersistence of respirable synthetic fibers and minerals: the point of view of the epidemiologist.
Biopersistence of fibers and minerals in human respiratory tissues is an important aspect of the toxicity of these agents. However, few data are available from human studies. Although a number of...
Boffetta, P, Trédaniel, J, Greco, A
We identified more than 30 studies on the association between exposure to maternal tobacco smoke during pregnancy and cancer in childhood. We combined their results in meta-analyses based on a random...
Cancer and occupational exposure to inorganic lead compounds: a meta-analysis of published data.
OBJECTIVES--To review and summarise the epidemiological evidence on the carcinogenicity of occupational exposure to inorganic lead. METHODS--Case-control and cohort studies were reviewed and combined...
Bladder cancer and occupation: a case-control study in northern Italy.
Porru, S, Aulenti, V, Donato, F, Boffetta, P, Fazioli, R, Cosciani Cunico, S, ...
OBJECTIVES--A hospital based case-control study was conducted between 1992 and 1993 in the province of Brescia, a highly industrialised area in northern Italy, to evaluate occupational risk factors...
Cancer mortality among shoe manufacturing workers: an analysis of two cohorts.
Fu, H, Demers, P A, Costantini, A S, Winter, P, Colin, D, Kogevinas, M, ...
OBJECTIVES: To examine the cancer risk of shoe manufacturing workers and evaluate whether the risk was associated with exposure to leather dust and solvents. METHODS: Data from two historical cohort...
Exposure to styrene and mortality from nonmalignant respiratory diseases.
Welp, E, Partanen, T, Kogevinas, M, Andersen, A, Bellander, T, Biocca, M, ...
A cohort of 34,560 men and 6128 women employed in 660 European factories manufacturing reinforced plastic products, followed up originally to assess the risk of cancer, was used to assess the risk of...
Occupational exposure to carcinogens in the European Union
Kauppinen, T., Toikkanen, J., Pedersen, D., Young, R., Ahrens, W., Boffetta, P., ...
OBJECTIVES—To construct a computer assisted information system for the estimation of the numbers of workers exposed to established and suspected human carcinogens in the member states of the...
Occupational exposures and pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis
Ojajarvi, I, Partanen, T., Ahlbom, A., Boffetta, P., Hakulinen, T., Jourenkova, N., ...
OBJECTIVES—Consolidation of epidemiological data on pancreatic cancer and worksite exposures. METHODS—Publications during 1969-98 were surveyed. Studies without verified exposures were...
Donato, F, Monarca, S, Marchionna, G, Rossi, A, Cicioni, C, Chiesa, R, ...
OBJECTIVES—To investigate the risk of cancer and non-neoplastic respiratory diseases among workers who manufacture carbon electrodes, as this industry entails exposure to mixtures of polycyclic...
Non-neoplastic mortality of European workers who produce man made mineral fibres
CHIAZZE, L., WATKINS, D., FRYAR, C., FAYERWEATHER, W., BOFFETTA, P., SARACCI, R.
Mortality from cardiovascular diseases and exposure to inorganic mercury
Boffetta, P, Sallsten, G, Garcia-Gomez, M, Pompe-Kirn, V, Zaridze, D, Bulbulyan, M, ...
OBJECTIVE—To study the mortality from cardiovascular and other chronic non-neoplastic diseases after long term exposure to inorganic mercury. Limited information is available on the effect of...
't, M, Steenland, K, Attfield, M, Boffetta, P, Checkoway, H, DeKlerk, N, ...
Aims: To study the relation between exposure to crystalline silica and silicosis mortality. Although mortality is an important endpoint for regulators, there have been no exposure-response studies...
Validity of empirical models of exposure in asphalt paving
Burstyn, I, Boffetta, P, Burr, G, Cenni, A, Knecht, U, Sciarra, G, ...
Aims: To investigate the validity of empirical models of exposure to bitumen fume and benzo(a)pyrene, developed for a historical cohort study of asphalt paving in Western Europe.
Mortality in New Zealand workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides and dioxins
't, M, McLean, D, Cheng, S, Boffetta, P, Colin, D, Pearce, N
Aims: To evaluate mortality in New Zealand phenoxy herbicide producers and sprayers exposed to dioxins.
Richiardi, L, Forastiere, F, Boffetta, P, Simonato, L, Merletti, F
Aim: To evaluate the effect of different approaches to treatment of smoking as a potential confounder in an occupational study of lung cancer.
Cancer risk in the rubber industry: a review of the recent epidemiological evidence
Kogevinas, M., Sala, M., Boffetta, P., Kazerouni, N., Kromhout, H., Hoar-Zahm, S.
OBJECTIVES: To examine the recent epidemiological evidence on cancer risk among workers in the rubber industry. METHODS: Epidemiological studies published after the last detailed review by the...
Non-neoplastic mortality of European workers who produce man made vitreous fibres
Sali, D., Boffetta, P., Andersen, A., Cherrie, J. W., Claude, J. C., Hansen, J., ...
OBJECTIVE: To study mortality from non-neoplastic diseases among European workers who produce man made vitreous fibres (MMVF). METHODS: 11,373 male workers were studied, who were employed for at...
Risk of fatal industrial accidents and death from other external causes among asphalt workers
Burstyn, I, Boffetta, P, Jarvholm, B, Partanen, T, Svane, O, Langard, S, ...
Overall, no evidence was found supporting the hypothesis that asphalt workers are at increased risk of fatal industrial or road accidents. Mortality from other external causes did not increase in...
Penetrance of adrenocortical tumours associated with the germline TP53 R337H mutation
Figueiredo, B C, Sandrini, R, Zambetti, G P, Pereira, R M, Cheng, C, Liu, W, ...
Karami, S., Boffetta, P., Rothman, N., Hung, R. J., Stewart, T., Zaridze, D., ...
This study investigated associations between occupational pesticide exposure and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) risk. To follow-up on a previous report by Buzio et al., we also considered whether this...
Mathew, A, Gajalakshmi, V, Rajan, B, Kanimozhi, V, Brennan, P, Mathew, B S, ...
Breast cancer (BC) incidence in India is approximately twice as high in urban women than in rural women, among whom we investigated the role of anthropometric factors and body size. The study was...
Conformity to traditional Mediterranean diet and cancer incidence: the Greek EPIC cohort
Benetou, V, Trichopoulou, A, Orfanos, P, Naska, A, Lagiou, P, Boffetta, P, ...
Adherence to traditional Mediterranean diet (MD) has been reported to be inversely associated with total, as well as cardiovascular, mortality. We have examined the relation between degree of such...
Schistosomiasis and the risk of bladder cancer in Alexandria, Egypt.
Bedwani, R., Renganathan, E., El Kwhsky, F., Braga, C., Abu Seif, H. H., Abul Azm, T., ...
The relationship between history of schistosomiasis and bladder cancer risk was investigated using data from a case-control study conducted between January 1994 and July 1996 in Alexandria, Egypt....
Parity and risk of stomach cancer by sub-site: a national Swedish study
Bahmanyar, S, Lambe, M, Zendehdel, K, Nyrén, O, Boffetta, P, Ye, W
We investigated stomach cancer risk by anatomic sub-site in relation to parity, as a marker for higher exposure to sex hormones, in a case–control study, nested within a cohort of 2 406 439...
Besson, H, Brennan, P, Becker, N, De Sanjosé, S, Nieters, A, Font, R, ...
We analysed the effects of tobacco and alcohol in the aetiology of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), based on 340 cases and 2465 controls enrolled in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Czech Republic,...
Second primary cancers among 109 000 cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Brennan, P, Scélo, G, Hemminki, K, Mellemkjaer, L, Tracey, E, Andersen, A, ...
An analysis of other primary cancers in individuals with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) can help to elucidate this cancer aetiology. In all, 109 451 first primary NHL were included in a pooled...
Golestan cohort study of oesophageal cancer: feasibility and first results
Pourshams, A, Saadatian-Elahi, M, Nouraie, M, Malekshah, A F, Rakhshani, N, Salahi, R, ...
To investigate the incidence of oesophageal cancer (EC) in the Golestan province of North-East Iran, we invited 1349 rural and urban inhabitants of Golestan province aged 35–80 to undergo extensive...
Second primary malignancies in patients with male breast cancer
Hemminki, K, Scélo, G, Boffetta, P, Mellemkjaer, L, Tracey, E, Andersen, A, ...
An international multicentre study of first and second primary neoplasms associated with male breast cancer was carried out by pooling data from 13 cancer registries. Among a total of 3409 men with...
Odenbro, Å, Bellocco, R, Boffetta, P, Lindelöf, B, Adami, J
We investigated whether tobacco use causes cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) in a large cohort study with complete and long-term follow-up. A total of 756 incident cases occurred in a cohort...
Kreuzer, M, Boffetta, P, Whitley, E, Ahrens, W, Gaborieau, V, Heinrich, J, ...
Several studies in the past have shown appreciably higher lung cancer risk estimates associated with smoking exposure among men than among women, while more recent studies in the USA report just the...
Risk of cancers of the lung, head and neck in patients hospitalized for alcoholism in Sweden
Boffetta, P, Ye, W, Adami, H-O, Mucci, L A, Nyrén, O
Alcoholic patients are at increased risk of cancers of the head and neck but little information is available on the magnitude of the risk for specific sites and for different histological types. We...
Second primary neoplasms following non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in New South Wales, Australia
Brennan, P, Coates, M, Armstrong, B, Colin, D, Boffetta, P
The incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) has been increasing rapidly over the last three decades. The reasons for this trend are not known although increasing exposure to sunlight has been...
Risk of adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus and gastric cardia in patients hospitalized for asthma
Ye, W, Chow, W-H, Lagergren, J, Boffetta, P, Boman, G, Adami, H-O, ...
In the first cohort study of the question we followed 92 986 (42 663 men and 50 323 women) adult patients hospitalized for asthma in Sweden from 1965 to 1994 for an average of 8.5 years to evaluate...
Food groups and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus: a case–control study in Uruguay
De Stefani, E, Deneo-Pellegrini, H, Ronco, A L, Boffetta, P, Brennan, P, Muñoz, N, ...
The cumulative risk of lung cancer among current, ex- and never-smokers in European men
Crispo, A, Brennan, P, Jöckel, K-H, Schaffrath-Rosario, A, Wichmann, H-E, Nyberg, F, ...
Nasrollahzadeh, D, Kamangar, F, Aghcheli, K, Sotoudeh, M, Islami, F, Abnet, C C, ...
The very high incidence of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in Golestan Province in northeastern Iran was suggested by studies in the 1970s as partly due to opium use, which is not uncommon...