Research Groups

Previous Publications - All Publications 2012-2013

1. Ortiz-Cuaran S., Villar S., Gouas D., Ferro G., Plymoth A., Khuhaprema T., Kalalak A., Sangrajrang S., Friesen M.D., Groopman J.D., Hainaut P. (2013) Association between HBX status, aflatoxin-induced R249S TP53 mutation and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in a case-control study from Thailand Cancer letters; 331(1):46-51. PMID: 23200676

2. Agostini M., Ferro G., Burstyn I., de Vocht F., Portengen L., Olsson A., Boffetta P., Kromhout H. (2013) Does a more refined assessment of exposure to bitumen fume and confounders alter risk estimates from a nested case-control study of lung cancer among European asphalt workers? Occupational and Environmental Medicine; 70(3):195-202. PMID: 23322919

3. Erdmann F., Lortet-Tieulent J., Schuz J., Zeeb H., Greinert R., Breitbart E.W., Bray F. (2013) International trends in the incidence of malignant melanoma 1953-2008--are recent generations at higher or lower risk? International journal of cancer; 132(2):385-400. PMID: 22532371

4. Gouas D.A., Villar S., Ortiz-Cuaran S., Legros P., Ferro G., Kirk G.D., Lesi O.A., Mendy M., Bah E., Friesen M.D., Groopman J., Chemin I., Hainaut P. (2012) TP53 R249S mutation, genetic variations in HBX and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in The Gambia Carcinogenesis; 33(6):1219-1224. PMID: 22447663

5. Kesminiene A., Evrard A.S., Ivanov V.K., Malakhova I.V., Kurtinaitise J., Stengrevics A., Tekkel M., Chekin S., Drozdovitch V., Gavrilin Y., Golovanov I., Kryuchkov V.P., Maceika E., Mirkhaidarov A.K., Polyakov S., Tenet V., Tukov A.R., Byrnes G., Cardis E. (2012) Risk of Thyroid Cancer among Chernobyl Liquidators Radiation research; 178(5):425-436. PMID: 22998226

6. Larsen S.B., Dalton S.O., Schuz J., Christensen J., Overvad K., Tjonneland A., Johansen C., Olsen A. (2012) Mortality among participants and non-participants in a prospective cohort study European journal of epidemiology; 27(11):837-845. PMID: 23070658

7. Tramacere I., Pelucchi C., Bonifazi M., Bagnardi V., Rota M., Bellocco R., Scotti L., Islami F., Corrao G., Boffetta P., La Vecchia C., Negri E. (2012) Alcohol drinking and non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk: a systematic review and a meta-analysis Annals of oncology; 23(11):2791-2798. PMID: 22357444

8. Brenner D.R., Boffetta P., Duell E.J., Bickeboller H., Rosenberger A., McCormack V., Muscat J.E., Yang P., Wichmann H.E., Brueske-Hohlfeld I., Schwartz A.G., Cote M.L., Tjonneland A., Friis S., Le Marchand L., Zhang Z.F., Morgenstern H., Szeszenia-Dabrowska N., Lissowska J., Zaridze D., Rudnai P., Fabianova E., Foretova L., Janout V., Bencko V., Schejbalova M., Brennan P., Mates I.N., Lazarus P., Field J.K., Raji O., McLaughlin J.R., Liu G., Wiencke J., Neri M., Ugolini D., Andrew A.S., Lan Q., Hu W., Orlow I., Park B.J., Hung R.J. (2012) Previous lung diseases and lung cancer risk: a pooled analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium American journal of epidemiology; 176(7):573-585. PMID: 22986146

9. Karotki A.V., Baverstock K. (2012) What mechanisms/processes underlie radiation-induced genomic instability? Cell Mol Life Sci; 69(20):3351-3360. PMID: 22955377

10. Li Q., Chuang S.C., Eluf-Neto J., Menezes A., Matos E., Koifman S., Wunsch-Filho V., Fernandez L., Daudt A.W., Curado M.P., Winn D.M., Franceschi S., Herrero R., Castellsague X., Morgenstern H., Zhang Z.F., Lazarus P., Muscat J., McClean M., Kelsey K.T., Hayes R.B., Purdue M.P., Schwartz S.M., Chen C., Benhamou S., Olshan A.F., Yu G., Schantz S., Ferro G., Brennan P., Boffetta P., Hashibe M. (2012) Vitamin or mineral supplement intake and the risk of head and neck cancer: pooled analysis in the INHANCE consortium International journal of cancer; 131(7):1686-1699. PMID: 22173631

11. Christensen J.S., Mortensen L.H., Roosli M., Feychting M., Tynes T., Andersen T.V., Schmidt L.S., Poulsen A.H., Aydin D., Kuehni C.E., Prochazka M., Lannering B., Klaeboe L., Eggen T., Schuz J. (2012) Brain tumors in children and adolescents and exposure to animals and farm life: a multicenter case-control study (CEFALO) Cancer causes & control : CCC; 23(9):1463-1473. PMID: 22790303

12. Gallo V., Egger M., McCormack V., Farmer P.B., Ioannidis J.P., Kirsch-Volders M., Matullo G., Phillips D.H., Schoket B., Stromberg U., Vermeulen R., Wild C., Porta M., Vineis P. (2012) STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology: Molecular Epidemiology STROBE-ME. An extension of the STROBE statement Journal of epidemiology and community health; 66(9):844-854. PMID: 22025194

13. Grell K., Meersohn A., Schuz J., Johansen C. (2012) Risk of neurological diseases among survivors of electric shocks: A nationwide cohort study, Denmark, 1968-2008 Bioelectromagnetics; 33(6):459-465. PMID: 22278991

14. Schmiedel S., Blettner M., Schuz J. (2012) Statistical power of disease cluster and clustering tests for rare diseases: A simulation study of point sources Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol; 3(3):235-242. PMID: 22749209

15. Vlaanderen J., Lan Q., Kromhout H., Rothman N., Vermeulen R. (2012) Occupational benzene exposure and the risk of chronic myeloid leukemia: A meta-analysis of cohort studies incorporating study quality dimensions American journal of industrial medicine; 55(9):779-785. PMID: 22729623

16. de Fine Licht S., Schmidt L.S., Rod N.H., Schmiegelow K., Lahteenmaki P.M., Kogner P., Trager C., Stokland T., Schuz J. (2012) Hepatoblastoma in the Nordic countries International journal of cancer; 131(4):E555-E561. PMID: 22095187

17. Heijnsdijk E.A., Wever E.M., Auvinen A., Hugosson J., Ciatto S., Nelen V., Kwiatkowski M., Villers A., Paez A., Moss S.M., Zappa M., Tammela T.L., Makinen T., Carlsson S., Korfage I.J., Essink-Bot M.L., Otto S.J., Draisma G., Bangma C.H., Roobol M.J., Schroder F.H., de Koning H.J. (2012) Quality-of-life effects of prostate-specific antigen screening New England journal of medicine; 367(7):595-605. PMID: 22894572

18. Kowall B., Breckenkamp J., Blettner M., Schlehofer B., Schuz J., Berg-Beckhoff G. (2012) Determinants and stability over time of perception of health risks related to mobile phone base stations Int J Public Health; 57(4):735-743. PMID: 21987029

19. Koivisto-Korander R., Scelo G., Ferro G., Mellemkjaer L., Hemminki K., Weiderpass E., Tamaro S., Pompe-Kirn V., Tracey E., Brewster D.H., Kliewer E.V., Tonita J.M., Kee-Seng C., Jonasson J.G., Martos C., Brennan P., Straif K., Pukkala E. (2012) Second primary malignancies among women with uterine sarcoma Gynecologic oncology; 126(1):30-35. PMID: 22487538

20. Rota M., Scotti L., Turati F., Tramacere I., Islami F., Bellocco R., Negri E., Corrao G., Boffetta P., La Vecchia C., Bagnardi V. (2012) Alcohol consumption and prostate cancer risk: a meta-analysis of the dose-risk relation European journal of cancer prevention; 21(4):350-359. PMID: 22095143

21. Vachon C.M., Scott C.G., Fasching P.A., Hall P., Tamimi R.M., Li J., Stone J., Apicella C., Odefrey F., Gierach G.L., Jud S.M., Heusinger K., Beckmann M.W., Pollan M., Fernandez-Navarro P., Gonzalez-Neira A., Benitez J., Van Gils C.H., Lokate M., Onland-Moret N.C., Peeters P.H., Brown J., Leyland J., Varghese J.S., Easton D.F., Thompson D.J., Luben R.N., Warren R.M., Wareham N.J., Loos R.J., Khaw K.T., Ursin G., Lee E., Gayther S.A., Ramus S.J., Eeles R.A., Leach M.O., Kwan-Lim G., Couch F.J., Giles G.G., Baglietto L., Krishnan K., Southey M.C., Le Marchand L., Kolonel L.N., Woolcott C., Maskarinec G., Haiman C.A., Walker K., Johnson N., McCormack V.A., Biong M., Alnaes G.I., Gram I.T., Kristensen V.N., Borresen-Dale A.L., Lindstrom S., Hankinson S.E., Hunter D.J., Andrulis I.L., Knight J.A., Boyd N.F., Figuero J.D., Lissowska J., Wesolowska E., Peplonska B., Bukowska A., Reszka E., Liu J., Eriksson L., Czene K., Audley T., Wu A.H., Pankratz V.S., Hopper J.L., Dos-Santos-Silva I. (2012) Common Breast Cancer Susceptibility Variants in LSP1 and RAD51L1 Are Associated with Mammographic Density Measures that Predict Breast Cancer Risk Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention; 21(7):1156-1166. PMID: 22454379

22. Eriksson L., Hall P., Czene K., Dos Santos Silva I, McCormack V., Bergh J., Bjohle J., Ploner A. (2012) Mammographic density and molecular subtypes of breast cancer British journal of cancer; 107(1):18-23. PMID: 22644308

23. Etemadi A., Golozar A., Kamangar F., Freedman N.D., Shakeri R., Matthews C., Islami F., Boffetta P., Brennan P., Abnet C.C., Malekzadeh R., Dawsey S.M. (2012) Large body size and sedentary lifestyle during childhood and early adulthood and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in a high-risk population Annals of oncology; 23(6):1593-1600. PMID: 22052987

24. Pelucchi C., Galeone C., Tramacere I., Bagnardi V., Negri E., Islami F., Scotti L., Bellocco R., Corrao G., Boffetta P., La Vecchia C. (2012) Alcohol drinking and bladder cancer risk: a meta-analysis Annals of oncology; 23(6):1586-1593. PMID: 22039083

25. Tramacere I., Pelucchi C., Bonifazi M., Bagnardi V., Rota M., Bellocco R., Scotti L., Islami F., Corrao G., Boffetta P., La Vecchia C., Negri E. (2012) A meta-analysis on alcohol drinking and the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma European journal of cancer prevention; 21(3):268-273. PMID: 22465910

26. Azizova T.V., Fedirko V., Tsareva Y., Tretyakov F., Funch Lassen C., Friis S., Schuz J. (2012) Mayak Workers Study Cohort. An Inter-Institutional Comparison of Causes of Death in the Cause-of-Death Register of Ozyorsk in the Russian Federation Methods of information in medicine; 51(2):144-149. PMID: 22311170

27. Breckenkamp J., Blettner M., Schuz J., Bornkessel C., Schmiedel S., Schlehofer B., Berg-Beckhoff G. (2012) Residential characteristics and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposures from bedroom measurements in Germany Radiation and environmental biophysics; 51(1):85-92. PMID: 21964673

28. Deltour I., Auvinen A., Feychting M., Johansen C., Klaeboe L., Sankila R., Schuz J. (2012) Mobile Phone Use and Incidence of Glioma in the Nordic Countries 1979-2008: Consistency Check Epidemiology; 23(2):301-307. PMID: 22249239

29. Mani S., Szymanska K., Cuenin C., Zaridze D., Balassiano K., Lima S.C., Matos E., Daudt A., Koifman S., Filho V.W., Menezes A.M., Curado M.P., Ferro G., Vaissiere T., Sylla B.S., Tommasino M., Pinto L.F., Boffetta P., Hainaut P., Brennan P., Herceg Z. (2012) DNA methylation changes associated with risk factors in tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract Epigenetics; 7(3):270-277. PMID: 22430803

30. Rosenberger A., Bickeboller H., McCormack V., Brenner D.R., Duell E.J., Tjonneland A., Friis S., Muscat J.E., Yang P., Wichmann H.E., Heinrich J., Szeszenia-Dabrowska N., Lissowska J., Zaridze D., Rudnai P., Fabianova E., Janout V., Bencko V., Brennan P., Mates D., Schwartz A.G., Cote M.L., Zhang Z.F., Morgenstern H., Oh S.S., Field J.K., Raji O., McLaughlin J.R., Wiencke J., LeMarchand L., Neri M., Bonassi S., Andrew A.S., Lan Q., Hu W., Orlow I., Park B.J., Boffetta P., Hung R.J. (2012) Asthma and lung cancer risk: a systematic investigation by the International Lung Cancer Consortium Carcinogenesis; 33(3):587-597. PMID: 22198214

31. McCormack V.A., Schuz J. (2012) Africa's growing cancer burden: environmental and occupational contributions Cancer Epidemiol; 36(1):1-7. PMID: 21996568

32. Najafi I., Shakeri R., Islami F., Malekzadeh F., Salahi R., Yapan-Gharavi M., Hosseini M., Hakemi M., Alatab S., Rahmati A., Broumand B., Nobakht-Haghighi A., Larijani B., Malekzadeh R. (2012) Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its associated risk factors: the first report from iran using both microalbuminuria and urine sediment Arch Iran Med; 15(2):70-75. PMID: 22292573

33. Peters S., Kromhout H., Olsson A.C., Wichmann H.E., Bruske I., Consonni D., Landi M.T., Caporaso N., Siemiatycki J., Richiardi L., Mirabelli D., Simonato L., Gustavsson P., Plato N., Jockel K.H., Ahrens W., Pohlabeln H., Boffetta P., Brennan P., Zaridze D., Cassidy A., Lissowska J., Szeszenia-Dabrowska N., Rudnai P., Fabianova E., Forastiere F., Bencko V., Foretova L., Janout V., Stucker I., Dumitru R.S., Benhamou S., Bueno-de-Mesquita B., Kendzia B., Pesch B., Straif K., Bruning T., Vermeulen R. (2012) Occupational exposure to organic dust increases lung cancer risk in the general population Thorax; 67(2):111-116. PMID: 21856697

34. Tramacere I., Pelucchi C., Bagnardi V., Rota M., Scotti L., Islami F., Corrao G., Boffetta P., La Vecchia C., Negri E. (2012) A meta-analysis on alcohol drinking and esophageal and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma risk Annals of oncology; 23(2):287-297. PMID: 21551004

35. Aghcheli K., Parsian H., Qujeq D., Talebi M., Mosapour A., Khalilipour E., Islami F., Semnani S., Malekzadeh R. (2012) Serum hyaluronic acid and laminin as potential tumor markers for upper gastrointestinal cancers Eur J Intern Med; 23(1):58-64. PMID: 22153533

36. Chuang S.C., Jenab M., Heck J.E., Bosetti C., Talamini R., Matsuo K., Castellsague X., Franceschi S., Herrero R., Winn D.M., La Vecchia C., Morgenstern H., Zhang Z.F., Levi F., Dal Maso L., Kelsey K., McClean M.D., Vaughan T., Lazarus P., Muscat J., Ramroth H., Chen C., Schwartz S.M., Eluf-Neto J., Hayes R.B., Purdue M., Boccia S., Cadoni G., Zaridze D., Koifman S., Curado M.P., Ahrens W., Benhamou S., Matos E., Lagiou P., Szeszenia-Dabrowska N., Olshan A.F., Fernandez L., Menezes A., Agudo A., Daudt A.W., Merletti F., MacFarlane G.J., Kjaerheim K., Mates D., Holcatova I., Schantz S., Yu G.P., Simonato L., Brenner H., Mueller H., Conway D.I., Thomson P., Fabianova E., Znaor A., Rudnai P., Healy C.M., Ferro G., Brennan P., Boffetta P., Hashibe M. (2012) Diet and the risk of head and neck cancer: a pooled analysis in the INHANCE consortium Cancer causes & control : CCC; 23(1):69-88. PMID: 22037906

37. Gallo V., Egger M., McCormack V., Farmer P.B., Ioannidis J.P., Kirsch-Volders M., Matullo G., Phillips D.H., Schoket B., Stromberg U., Vermeulen R., Wild C., Porta M., Vineis P. (2012) STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology - Molecular Epidemiology (STROBE-ME): An extension of the STROBE statement Mutagenesis; 27(1):17-29. PMID: 22027842

38. Gallo V., Egger M., McCormack V., Farmer P.B., Ioannidis J.P., Kirsch-Volders M., Matullo G., Phillips D.H., Schoket B., Stromberg U., Vermeulen R., Wild C., Porta M., Vineis P. (2012) STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology - Molecular Epidemiology (STROBE-ME): An extension of the STROBE statement Eur J Clin Invest; 42(1):1-16. PMID: 22023344

39. McCormack V., Peto J., Byrnes G., Straif K., Boffetta P. (2012) Estimating the asbestos-related lung cancer burden from mesothelioma mortality British journal of cancer; 106(3):575-584. PMID: 22233924

40. Peters S., Vermeulen R., Olsson A., Van Gelder R., Kendzia B., Vincent R., Savary B., Williams N., Woldbaek T., Lavoue J., Cavallo D., Cattaneo A., Mirabelli D., Plato N., Dahmann D., Fevotte J., Pesch B., Bruning T., Straif K., Kromhout H. (2012) Development of an exposure measurement database on five lung carcinogens (ExpoSYN) for quantitative retrospective occupational exposure assessment Annals of occupational hygiene; 56(1):70-79. PMID: 21989165

41. Thierry-Chef I., Simon S.L., Weinstock R.M., Kwon D., Linet M.S. (2012) Reconstruction of absorbed doses to fibroglandular tissue of the breast of women undergoing mammography (1960 to the present) Radiation research; 177(1):92-108. PMID: 21988547

42. Tramacere I., Negri E., Pelucchi C., Bagnardi V., Rota M., Scotti L., Islami F., Corrao G., La Vecchia C., Boffetta P. (2012) A meta-analysis on alcohol drinking and gastric cancer risk Annals of oncology; 23(1):28-36. PMID: 21536659

43. Aydin D., Feychting M., Schuz J., Roosli M. (2012) Childhood brain tumours and use of mobile phones: comparison of a case-control study with incidence data Environ Health; doi: 10.1186/1476-06. PMID: 22607537

44. Caboux E., Lallemand C., Ferro G., Hemon B., Mendy M., Biessy C., Sims M., Wareham N., Britten A., Boland A., Hutchinson A., Siddiq A., Vineis P., Riboli E., Romieu I., Rinaldi S., Gunter M.J., Peeters P.H., van der Schouw Y.T., Travis R., Bueno-de-Mesquita H.B., Canzian F., Sanchez M.J., Skeie G., Olsen K.S., Lund E., Bilbao R., Sala N., Barricarte A., Palli D., Navarro C., Panico S., Redondo M.L., Polidoro S., Dossus L., Boutron-Ruault M.C., Clavel-Chapelon F., Trichopoulou A., Trichopoulos D., Lagiou P., Boeing H., Fisher E., Tumino R., Agnoli C., Hainaut P. (2012) Sources of Pre-Analytical Variations in Yield of DNA Extracted from Blood Samples: Analysis of 50,000 DNA Samples in EPIC PLoS ONE; 7(7):e39821. PMID: 22808065

45. Galobardes B., McCormack V.A., McCarron P., Howe L.D., Lynch J., Lawlor D.A., Smith G.D. (2012) Social Inequalities in Height: Persisting Differences Today Depend upon Height of the Parents PLoS ONE; 7(1):e29118. PMID: 22238588

46. Harbo Poulsen A., Stenager E., Johansen C., Bentzen J., Friis S., Schuz J. (2012) Mobile phones and multiple sclerosis - a nationwide cohort study in Denmark PLoS ONE; 7(4):e34453. PMID: 22558088

47. Islami F., Boffetta P., van Schooten F.J., Strickland P., Phillips D.H., Pourshams A., Fazel-Tabar Malekshah A., Godschalk R., Jafari E., Etemadi A., Abubaker S., Kamangar F., Straif K., Moller H., Schuz J., Malekzadeh R. (2012) Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Among Never Smokers in Golestan Province, Iran, an Area of High Incidence of Esophageal Cancer - a Cross-Sectional Study with Repeated Measurement of Urinary 1-OHPG in Two Seasons Frontiers in oncology; 14. PMID: 22655262

48. Pijpe A., Andrieu N., Easton D.F., Kesminiene A., Cardis E., Nogues C., Gauthier-Villars M., Lasset C., Fricker J.P., Peock S., Frost D., Evans D.G., Eeles R.A., Paterson J., Manders P., van Asperen C.J., Ausems M.G., Meijers-Heijboer H., Thierry-Chef I., Hauptmann M., Goldgar D., Rookus M.A., van Leeuwen F.E. (2012) Exposure to diagnostic radiation and risk of breast cancer among carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations: retrospective cohort study (GENE-RAD-RISK) British medical journal; e5660. PMID: 22956590

49. Shakeri R., Kamangar F., Nasrollahzadeh D., Nouraie M., Khademi H., Etemadi A., Islami F., Marjani H., Fahimi S., Sepehr A., Rahmati A., Abnet C.C., Dawsey S.M., Brennan P., Boffetta P., Malekzadeh R., Majdzadeh R. (2012) Is opium a real risk factor for esophageal cancer or just a methodological artifact? Hospital and neighborhood controls in case-control studies PLoS ONE; 7(3):e32711. PMID: 22396792