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Volume 10 Supplement 1

Proceedings of the First Lorenzo Tomatis Conference on Environment and Cancer

Proceedings

Edited by Paolo Vineis and Rodolfo Saracci

The organization of the First Lorenzo Tomatis Conference on Environment and Cancer and the subsequent preparation of this supplement were made possible by the ECNIS grant (FOOD-CT-2005-513943) and ECNIS 2 grant (FP7-KBBE-2010-4) from the European Community, by a grant of the Compagnia di San Paolo to the FIRMS Foundation (La Fondazione Internazionale in Medicina Sperimentale) and by a grant of the HuGeF Foundation (Human Genetics Foundation) to Paolo Vineis.

First Lorenzo Tomatis Conference on Environment and Cancer. Go to conference site.

Turin, Italy4-5 June 2009

  1. Since publication of Environmental Health 2011, 10(Suppl 1):S12 [1] it has been noticed that titles and captions for the figures and tables were incorrectly applied. In this full-length correction article, figure...

    Authors: Lucio Luzzatto

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S16

    Content type: Erratum

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    The original article was published in Environmental Health 2011 10:S12

  2. As an introduction to the series of papers arising from the first ‘Lorenzo Tomatis Conference on Environment and Cancer’ , Tomatis’ contributions to research in cancer prevention are first noted, especially th...

    Authors: Rodolfo Saracci and Paolo Vineis

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S1

    Content type: Introduction

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  4. I will refer in this paper to difficulties in research in environmental causes of cancer using as examples research on dioxins and on drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) that have created considerab...

    Authors: Manolis Kogevinas

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S3

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  8. This paper provides a synthesis on socioeconomic inequalities in cancer incidence, mortality and survival across countries and within countries, with particular focus on the Italian context; the paper also des...

    Authors: Franco Merletti, Claudia Galassi and Teresa Spadea

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S7

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  9. At least in economically developed countries, in the last decades, the incidence of childhood cancer has increased and the increase is unlikely to be an artefact. Causes of the increase have not been identifie...

    Authors: Benedetto Terracini

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S8

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  10. Studies of occupational exposures have made major contributions to our understanding of human carcinogenesis. About one third of the factors identified as definite or probable human carcinogens were first inve...

    Authors: Aaron Blair, Loraine Marrett and Laura Beane Freeman

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S9

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  12. Oxidative stress enhances lipid peroxidation (LPO), which both are implicated in the promotion and progression stages of carcinogenesis, in particular under conditions of chronic inflammation and infections. E...

    Authors: Helmut Bartsch, Khelifa Arab and Jagadeesan Nair

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S11

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  13. The transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell takes place through a sequence of a small number of discrete genetic events, somatic mutations: thus, cancer can be regarded properly as a genetic disease...

    Authors: Lucio Luzzatto

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S12

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Environmental Health 2011 10:S16

  14. The prevention of the infectious diseases was accomplished long before there was any understanding of the molecular biology of bacteria and viruses. As for cancer, the sharp drop in frequency of the once-commo...

    Authors: John Cairns

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S13

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  15. The leading 20th century proponent for primary prevention of environmental cancer was Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis, the former Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and founder of the IARC Monographs...

    Authors: Ronald L Melnick and James Huff

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S14

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  16. The last two decades have seen exciting advances in understanding the human genome, aided by the development of powerful analytical laboratory tools. These advances have enabled genome-wide association studies...

    Authors: Christopher P Wild

    Citation: Environmental Health 2011 10(Suppl 1):S15

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