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.
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Turin, Italy4-5 June 2009
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Content type: Erratum
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
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Content type: Introduction
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
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Substantial changes in large parts of the developing world have materialised in the last three decades. These are extremely diverse countries with respect to culture, societal values and political arrangements...
Authors: Paola Pisani
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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
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This paper provides a perspective on epidemiological research on radiation and cancer, a field that has evolved over its six decade history. The review covers the current framework for assessing radiation risk...
Authors: Jonathan M Samet
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Molecular Epidemiology was originally conceived as a preventive approach, providing a valuable tool for investigating risk factors for cancer in vulnerable populations. Biomarkers can be used as early indicato...
Authors: Frederica Perera
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The Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study (GHIS) consisted in the progressive introduction of HBV plasma-derived vaccine in different zones of this African country during the period 1986-1990. The study was laun...
Authors: Ruggero Montesano
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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
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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
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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
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Most workplaces in developing countries are “informal”, i.e. they are not regularly surveyed/inspected and laws for workers’ protection are not implemented. Research on occupational risks in informal workplace...
Authors: Vilma Sousa Santana and Fatima Sueli Neto Ribeiro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
