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Barbieri PG, Consonni D, Mirabelli D, Calabresi C, Calisti R, Carnevale F, Terracini B. Remarks on Pass et al. Benign and Malignant Mesothelioma. In: DeVita, Hellman, and Rosemberg (Eds). Cancer. Principles & Practice of Oncology. 11th edition, 2019. Am J Ind Med 2024; 67:174-176. [PMID: 38174598 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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- Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Turin and CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy
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- Occupational Health Unit, ASL Genoa and National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (I.N.A.I.L.), Italy
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- Occupational Epidemiology, Health and Safety Service, AST MACERATA, Civitanova Marche, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Turin and CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy
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Russo A, Terracini B, Blettner M, Gianicolo E. The Incidence of Leukemia in Children Living Near Nuclear Power Plants in Germany (2004-2019). Dtsch Arztebl Int 2023; 120:679-680. [PMID: 37937543 PMCID: PMC10644959 DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Revised: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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- Institute of Medical Biometrics, Epidemiology, and Information Science, University Medical Center Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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- Institute of Medical Biometrics, Epidemiology, and Information Science, University Medical Center Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Lecce, Italy
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Ramos-Bonilla JP, Giraldo M, Marsili D, Pasetto R, Terracini B, Mazzeo A, Magnani C, Comba P, Lysaniuk B, Cely-García MF, Ascoli V. An Approach to Overcome the Limitations of Surveillance of Asbestos Related Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: What We Learned from the Sibaté Study in Colombia. Ann Glob Health 2023; 89:64. [PMID: 37810608 PMCID: PMC10558025 DOI: 10.5334/aogh.4166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/09/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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Introduction The asbestos industry began its operations in Colombia in 1942 with the establishment of an asbestos-cement facility in Sibaté, located in the Department of Cundinamarca. Despite extensive asbestos use and production in Colombia, the country lacks a reliable epidemiological surveillance system to monitor the health effects of asbestos exposure. The Colombian health information system, known as SISPRO, did not report mesothelioma cases diagnosed in the municipality, posing a significant challenge in understanding the health impacts of asbestos exposure on the population of Sibaté. Methods To address this issue, an active surveillance strategy was implemented in Sibaté. This strategy involved conducting door-to-door health and socioeconomic structured interviews to identify Asbestos-Related Diseases (ARDs). Validation strategies included a thorough review of medical records by a panel of physicians, and the findings were communicated to local, regional, and national authorities, as well as the general population. Results The active surveillance strategy successfully identified a mesothelioma cluster in Sibaté, revealing the inadequacy of the existing health information system in monitoring asbestos-related diseases. The discovery of this cluster underscores the critical importance of implementing active surveillance strategies in Colombia, where governmental institutions and resources are often limited. Conclusion The findings of this study emphasize the urgent need for Colombia to establish a reliable epidemiological surveillance system for asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). Active surveillance strategies can play a crucial role in identifying mesothelioma clusters and enhancing our understanding of the health effects of asbestos exposure in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS, Rome, IT
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, IT
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS, Rome, IT
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, IT
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bologna, IT
- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Torino and CPO-Piemonte, Torino, IT
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- Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Bologna, IT
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bologna, IT
- Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, IT
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- Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, IT
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Barbieri PG, Consonni D, Magnani C, Mensi C, Mirabell D, Ricci P, Terracini B. Is mesothelioma related to "initial dose" rather than to "cumulative dose"? Critical remarks on Maghin et al. Assessment protocol of mesothelioma and relevance of SEM-EDS analysis through a case studies of legal medicine of Brescia (Italy). Legal Medicine 2022;57:102076. Leg Med (Tokyo) 2023; 63:102262. [PMID: 37087784 DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
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- Pietro Gino Barbieri
- Occupational Health Unit and Mesothelioma Registry, ATS di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
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- Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Dept. of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont and CPO-Piemonte, Novara, Italy
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- Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, CPO Piemonte e Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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- Epidemiology Unit, ATS della Val Padana, Mantua, Italy
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Magnani C, Mensi C, Binazzi A, Marsili D, Grosso F, Ramos-Bonilla JP, Ferrante D, Migliore E, Mirabelli D, Terracini B, Consonni D, Degiovanni D, Lia M, Cely-García MF, Giraldo M, Lysaniuk B, Comba P, Marinaccio A. The Italian Experience in the Development of Mesothelioma Registries: A Pathway for Other Countries to Address the Negative Legacy of Asbestos. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2023; 20:ijerph20020936. [PMID: 36673690 PMCID: PMC9858856 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20020936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2022] [Revised: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Asbestos (all forms, including chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, tremolite, actinolite, and anthophyllite) is carcinogenic to humans and causally associated with mesothelioma and cancer of the lung, larynx, and ovary. It is one of the carcinogens most diffuse in the world, in workplaces, but also in the environment and is responsible for a very high global cancer burden. A large number of countries, mostly with high-income economies, has banned the use of asbestos which, however, is still widespread in low- and middle-income countries. It remains, thus, one of the most common occupational and environmental carcinogens worldwide. Italy issued an asbestos ban in 1992, following the dramatic observation of a large increase in mortality from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases in exposed workers and also in subjects with non-occupational exposure. A mesothelioma registry was also organized and still monitors the occurrence of mesothelioma cases, conducting a case-by-case evaluation of asbestos exposure. In this report, we describe two Italian communities, Casale Monferrato and Broni, that faced an epidemic of mesothelioma resulting from the production of asbestos cement and the diffuse environmental exposure; we present the activity and results of the Italian mesothelioma registry (ReNaM), describe the risk-communication activities at the local and national level with a focus on international cooperation and also describe the interaction between mesothelioma registration and medical services specialized in mesothelioma diagnosis and treatment in an area at high risk of mesothelioma. Finally, we assess the potential application of the solutions and methods already developed in Italy in a city in Colombia with high mesothelioma incidence associated with the production of asbestos-cement materials and the presence of diffuse environmental asbestos pollution.
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- Corrado Magnani
- Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, 28100 Novara, Italy
- Collegium Ramazzini, Bentivoglio, 40010 Modena, Italy
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- Occupational Health Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority, 00143 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS (Italian National Institute of Health), 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Mesothelioma Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bentivoglio, 40010 Modena, Italy
- Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
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- Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, 28100 Novara, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Regional Operating Center of Piemonte (COR Piemonte), University of Torino and CPO-Piemonte, 10126 Torin, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Regional Operating Center of Piemonte (COR Piemonte), University of Torino and CPO-Piemonte, 10126 Torin, Italy
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bentivoglio, 40010 Modena, Italy
- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Regional Operating Center of Piemonte (COR Piemonte), University of Torino and CPO-Piemonte, 10126 Torin, Italy
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- Occupational Health Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy
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- Mesothelioma Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Civil y Ambiental, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá 111711, Colombia
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bentivoglio, 40010 Modena, Italy
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- Collegium Ramazzini, Bentivoglio, 40010 Modena, Italy
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority, 00143 Rome, Italy
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Terracini B. [Thalidomide and unilateral limb defects: the Italian chapter of a neverending story]. Epidemiol Prev 2021; 45:302-309. [PMID: 34549573 DOI: 10.19191/ep21.4.p302.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Fifty years after the event, Italy introduced legislation to compensate malformations in children - now in their sixties - born to mothers who had been prescribed the antiemetic drug thalidomide for morning sickness. However, compensation has been denied to people 'only' damaged in one half of their body as opposed to those with bilateral malformations. The present study reviews the papers describing case series of children born with 'thalidomide embryopathy' in the UK, Germany, and other countries around 1960. Most clinical series were not organized on the basis of inclusion/exclusion criteria, thus allowing for probable selection and information biases on maternal use of thalidomide. In any case, they included a sizable number of children with a unilateral limb defect born from mothers certainly exposed to thalidomide during the relevant pregnancy. In many of these children, limb defects were associated with visceral malformations, as frequently observed following exposure to thalidomide in utero. Similarly, later literature reviews were not bias-free in their choice of articles, as is the case of a recently proposed 'diagnostic algorithm' for thalidomide-caused specific malformations and of the advice by the Italian National Institute of Health ruling out the possibility of thalidomide producing unilateral limb defects. Overall, the scientific evidence suggests that thalidomide can cause unilateral limb defects.
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Barone Adesi F, Bruno C, Calisti R, Chellini E, Comba P, Consonni D, Fazzo L, Fedeli U, Forastiere F, Magnani C, Marinaccio A, Merler E, Mirabelli D, Ricci P, Terracini B. [Effects of Asbestos on Human Health. Document of the Italian Epidemiological Association (AIE)]. Epidemiol Prev 2021; 44:327-338. [PMID: 33506658 DOI: 10.19191/ep20.5-6.a001.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES the Italian Epidemiological Association (AIE) intends to formulate assessments and recommendations on the most relevant and critical aspects in the preparation, conduct, and interpretation of epidemiological investigations on the health effects of exposure to asbestos and asbestos-like fibres. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS the document was prepared by a working group of AIE associates, with a broad curriculum of epidemiological investigations, starting from the evaluation of scientific evidence, and was subsequently evaluated by the AIE governing body. RESULTS the topics covered included: • consumption and presence of asbestos; • association between asbestos exposure and disease; • epidemiological surveillance of asbestos related diseases in Italy; • risk function for asbestos related diseases; • increased risk and anticipation of the disease; • interaction between asbestos and other carcinogens; • diagnosis in epidemiological studies; • assessment of exposure to asbestos; • epidemiological evidence on asbestos related diseases. CONCLUSIONS the document ends with a summary of the conclusions of scientific research shared by AIE, with reflection on the methodology to be followed for the application at individual level of the results of epidemiological studies, and the proposal of themes on which to direct research.
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- Dipartimento ambiente e salute, Istituto superiore di sanità, Roma
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- Servizio prevenzione e sicurezza negli ambienti di lavoro - epidemiologia occupazionale, ASUR MARCHE, Civitanova Marche (MC)
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- SS epidemiologia dell'ambiente e del lavoro, Istituto per lo studio, la prevenzione e la rete oncologica (ISPRO), Firenze
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- già Direttore, Reparto di epidemiologia ambientale e sociale, Dipartimento ambiente e salute, Istituto superiore di sanità
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- UO epidemiologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano
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- Dipartimento ambiente e salute, Istituto superiore di sanità, Roma
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- Servizio epidemiologico regionale e registri - Azienda Zero, Regione del Veneto
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- Dipartimento di medicina traslazionale, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara;
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- Dipartimento di medicina, epidemiologia, igiene del lavoro e ambientale, Istituto per l'assicurazione contro gli infortuni sul lavoro, Roma
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- Registro regionale veneto dei casi di mesotelioma, Padova (ora in pensione)
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- Epidemiologia dei tumori, CPO Piemonte e Università di Torino (ora in pensione)
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- UOC osservatorio epidemiologico, ATS della Val Padana, Mantova
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Ramos-Bonilla JP, Cely-García MF, Giraldo M, Comba P, Terracini B, Pasetto R, Marsili D, Ascoli V, Lysaniuk B, Rodríguez MC, Mazzeo A, Panqueva RDPL, Baldión M, Cañón D, García-Herreros LG, Pinzón B, Hernández LJ, Silva YA. An asbestos contaminated town in the vicinity of an asbestos-cement facility: The case study of Sibaté, Colombia. Environ Res 2019; 176:108464. [PMID: 31229775 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/27/2019] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The asbestos industry began operations in Colombia in 1942, with an asbestos-cement facility located in the municipality of Sibaté. In recent years residents from Sibaté have been complaining about what they consider is an unusually large number of people diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases in the town. A study to analyze the situation of Sibaté started in 2015, to verify if the number of asbestos related diseases being diagnosed were higher than expected, and to identify potential asbestos exposure sources in the town. METHODS A health and socioeconomic survey was implemented door-to-door to identify potential asbestos-related diseases. Several self-reported mesothelioma cases were identified, and for confirmation purposes, copies of the medical record with the histopathology report were obtained. A panel of six physicians analyzed the medical records. Information of validated cases was used to estimate the male and female age-adjusted incidence rate for Sibaté. Based on reports of the existence of potential asbestos-contaminated landfills, topographic maps, a digital elevation model, and current satellite images were crossed using a geographic information system to identify potential landfilled areas, and soils samples were collected in some of these areas. RESULTS A total of 355 surveys were completed, and 29 self-reported mesothelioma cases were identified. Twenty-five of these cases have been persons who had lived at some moment of their lives in Sibaté. It was possible to obtain copies of the medical diagnosis for 17 cases. Of these, the panel of physicians classified 15 cases as certain pleural mesothelioma, one as probable, and one as not mesothelioma. Based on this information, the estimated age-adjusted incidence rate of mesothelioma in Sibaté was 3.1 × 105 persons-year for males and 1.6 × 105 persons-year for females. These rates are high in comparison to those reported in other cities, regions, and countries of the world. Using geographic information systems, landfilled zones in the urban area of Sibaté were identified, on top of which a school and different sports facilities were built. The analysis of four soil samples collected in landfilled zones, confirmed the existence of an underground layer of friable and non-friable asbestos. CONCLUSION The collected evidence suggests the presence of a malignant pleural mesothelioma cluster in Sibaté.
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- Juan Pablo Ramos-Bonilla
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health in Contaminated Sites, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratories, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratories, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratories, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Associate Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Diagnostic Imaging Department, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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Di Ciaula A, Terracini B. [Why we do not agree with the reassuring conclusions of the report on radiofrequencies and cancer of the Italian National Institute of Health]. Epidemiol Prev 2019; 43:314-316. [PMID: 31659875 DOI: 10.19191/ep19.5-6.p314.097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Agostino Di Ciaula
- UOC Medicina interna PO Bisceglie, ASL BAT
- Medici per l'ambiente (ISDE-Italia)
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- Centro di riferimento per l'epidemiologia e la prevenzione oncologica (CPO) della Regione Piemonte, Torino;
- Unità di epidemiologia dei tumori, Università di Torino (in pensione)
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- Benedetto Terracini
- Cancer Epidemiology, Centro di Riferimento per l'Epidemiologia e la Prevenzione Oncologica (CPO) Piemonte, and Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
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Terracini B. Asbestos. Environ Epidemiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1201/9780429263361-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Oddone E, Terracini B, Mirabelli D, Mensi C, Consonni D, Barone-Adesi F. Comment on: Malignant mesothelioma diagnosed at a younger age is associated with heavier asbestos exposure. Carcinogenesis 2019; 40:488-489. [PMID: 30561515 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgy179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Enrico Oddone
- Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.,Hospital Occupational Medicine Unit (UOOML), ICS Maugeri SpA SB IRCCS, Institute of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Terracini B. [Post-earthquake epidemiology: it is necessary to plan in advance]. Epidemiol Prev 2019; 43:8-9. [PMID: 31111703 DOI: 10.19191/ep19.1.p8.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Terracini B. Commentary: Past and current asbestos exposure and future mesothelioma risks in Britain. Int J Epidemiol 2018; 47:1756-1757. [DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyy175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Benedetto Terracini
- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Interdepartmental Centre G. Scansetti for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Comba P, D'Angelo M, Fazzo L, Magnani C, Marinaccio A, Mirabelli D, Terracini B. Mesothelioma in Italy: the Casale Monferrato model to a national epidemiological surveillance system. Ann Ist Super Sanita 2018; 54:139-148. [PMID: 29916419 DOI: 10.4415/ann_18_02_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The purpose of the present paper is to review the origin and development of the epidemiology of mesothelioma in Italy, starting with the detection and investigation of the major outbreak of the disease observed in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont Region. Over the last four decades, mortality among the cohort of ex-Eternit workers has been measured at three points in time. More recently, population based case-control studies in the area of Casale Monferrato have provided new light on the dose-response curve of the relationship between asbestos exposure and mesotheliomas. The publication of the first Casale Monferrato study had a major impact in the country and contributed to the decision of the Italian Parliament to ban the use of asbestos. The experience of Casale Monferrato represents a lesson in several terms, from the epidemiological surveillance to the health care of the victims and the relationship between epidemiologists, victims, their relatives and residents in contaminated areas.
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- Pietro Comba
- Dipartimento Ambiente e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Centro Sanitario Amianto Piemonte, Casale Monferrato (Alessandria), Italy
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- Dipartimento Ambiente e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Translazionale, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Epidemiologia e Igiene, Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione Infortuni sul Lavoro, Rome, Italy
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- Epidemiologia dei Tumori, CPO-Piemonte e Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Terracini B. [Like a heart transplantation]. Epidemiol Prev 2018; 42:279. [PMID: 30370729 DOI: 10.19191/ep18.5-6.p279.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Magnani C, Pazè E, Terracini B, Pastore G, Mosso ML. Time Trends in Survival of Children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia in Piedmont, Italy: A Report from the Population-Based Cancer Registry. Tumori 2018; 81:164-8. [PMID: 7571021 DOI: 10.1177/030089169508100302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Aims and Background The Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont (RTI) periodically updates the life status of each registered child. Given its size, the RTI is the major (albeit geographically limited) Italian source of population-based survival rates of cancer in children. The present report describes time trends in survival of children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). Methods During 1970-87, 429 residents in Piedmont aged 0-14 were diagnosed as having ALL: they have been followed up until 1991. Results Five-year survival rates increased from 21% to 72% for children diagnosed ALL respectively in 1970-72 and 1985-87. Major improvements occurred up to the mid-seventies and again between cases diagnosed in the early and late eighties. Improvement in survival was statistically significant for children belonging to classes comprised between 2 and 10 years of age at diagnosis. Period of diagnosis was unrelated to probability of survival among the 13 cases diagnosed ALL at age 0. Survival was unrelated to sex, even in the early seventies and even after consideration of children dying more than 5 years after diagnosis. Between 1976-81 and 1982-87, an improvement in survival was found in all categories of WBC count at diagnosis: the ratio between the two estimates was somewhat higher for children with more than 50,000 WBC/mm3 at diagnosis than for other children. Conclusions Present data are compared with those resulting from other population-based series: this exercise can be useful for an overall evaluation of delivery of cancer therapy at the population basis.
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- C Magnani
- Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, Torino, Italy
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Aims and Background The study analyzed survival after malignant mesothelioma in the population-based Registry of Malignant Mesothelioma of Piedmont (NW Italy, 4.5 million total population). It focused on possible differences related to period of diagnosis a proxy of changes in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Methods Cases were actively searched in pathology units and files of hospital admissions and discharges. In 1990-1998, 693 incident cases were diagnosed in residents in the region: 590 of them had a histologic diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma in life and were included in the study. Vital status was ascertained at the municipality of residence as of January 1, 2000. Results Fifty-eight cases were alive (9.8%) and 20 were lost (3.6%) at the end of the follow-up. Median survival was 0.71 years (95% Cl, 0.64-0.78). Cumulative survival was 35.9% at 1 year (95% Cl, 32.0-39.8) and 14.2% at 2 years (95% Cl, 11.2-17.1). Survival was associated to age (longer survival for younger subjects at diagnosis; P <0.0001) and to histology (longer survival for epithelial mesothelioma, shorter for fibrous and intermediate for mixed or unspecified types; P <0.0001). There was no difference in survival for period of diagnosis. The results were confirmed in multivariate analyses. Analyses according to type of hospital (with vs without thoracic surgery) did not show any statistically significant difference. Discussion The study on survival after malignant mesothelioma is the second largest of the three population-based studies in the world, which showed results similar to ours. Survival measured in published clinical series ranged between 18.4% and 57.6% at 1 year for pleural and 24.1% and 33.8% for peritoneal mesothelioma. The most striking effect of the present study was the absence of improvement in survival with period of diagnosis. Either there was no change in treatment efficacy or the effect was limited to small subgroups and could not be noticed when the analysis included larger categories.
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- Corrado Magnani
- Registry of Malignant Mesothelioma, Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, CPO Piemonte, San Giovanni Hospital and University of Turin, Italy.
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Age-standardized incidence rates of cancer of the larynx in men from 1965–1969 were 14.7/100,000/year in the city of Torino and 8.4 in the non-metropolitan area of the province. These rates are among the highest in Europe. The geographical distribution of cancer of the larynx has been investigated in the non-metropolitan area considering two geographical entities, i.e., the 291 towns and the 12 ecological zones/subzones of the area. The incidence of cancer of the larynx in men was unrelated to the population of towns in 1961, whereas it was positively correlated to indexes of general industrialization as well as to those related to industrialization in the mechanical processes. Tobacco and alcohol consumption have not been taken into account. In order to validate the methodology, the investigation was extended to bladder cancer and to cancer in children. The former was correlated with general and chemical + rubber industrialization, whereas the latter was not correlated with any industrial process.
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Magnani C, Pastore G, Luzzatto L, Terracini B. Parental Occupation and Other Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Leukemias and Non-Hodgkin'S Lymphomas in Childhood: A Case-Control Study. Tumori 2018; 76:413-9. [PMID: 2256184 DOI: 10.1177/030089169007600501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We report the results of a hospital-based, case-control study on acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute non-lympocytic leukemia (AnLL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in childhood. The study was conducted from 1981 to 1984 in Turin (Italy). One hundred and forty-two children with ALL, 22 with AnLL and 19 with NHL were included, as well as 307 controls. Information on parental smoking habits, parental occupation, ionizing radiation and childhood diseases were collected using a standard questionnaire during a personal interview of the relative attending the child in the hospital. The odds ratios for antenatal diagnostic radiation were 1.1 (NS) for ALL and 2.4 (NS) for AnLL. No association was found with diseases in childhood. Paternal and maternal smoking habits were similar for ALL cases and controls. Both maternal and paternal smoking were associated with NHL: for paternal smoking, odds ratios were around 5, but without a correlation with number of cigarettes. Positive associations observed with maternal employment were: ALL with teacher and cleaner; AnLL and textile worker; NHL and baker. Corresponding association with paternal jobs were: ALL with clerks, farmers and employment in office equipment production; AnLL and workers in building, tire or textile industries; NHL and lorry drivers, workers in the building or in the wood and furniture industry.
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Torino, Italy
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Cappa AP, Bertiond G, Colombo A, Faggiano F, Gussio M, Merletti F, Terracini B, Toniolo P, Boffetta P. Incidence of Breast Cancer in Piedmont: 1979–1981. Tumori 2018; 73:219-27. [PMID: 3603716 DOI: 10.1177/030089168707300303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A population-based survey of histologically diagnosed breast cancer was carried out among residents in Piedmont. A total of 5267 incident cases occurring in 1979–1981 was collected, corresponding to an age-standardized (on the world population) incidence rate of 49.5/100,000 per year. Rates (standardized on the population of Piedmont in 1981) were highest in the city of Torino (112.4/100,000 per year) and lowest in the province of Cuneo (67.5), whereas in the other provinces they ranged between 85.3 and 90.0. Estimation of rates in the 54 Local Health Authorities of Piedmont detected up to 2-fold differences between adjacent areas. A correlation was found between rates and size of the population of town of residence. Comparison with age-specific incidence rates from the Cancer Registry of the nearby province of Varese suggested a loss of nonhistologically confirmed cases selectively in older age groups. The distribution of cases diagnosed in 1979 by histologic type is presented. The proportion of diagnoses reported in terms which were consistent with the 1978 WHO Histological Typing of Breast Tumours was 61.3%. It was highest among cases identified in Pathology Services located in University Hospitals and/or diagnosing more than 50 breast cancers per year.
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Individual demographic data of 459 women living in Torino with incident breast cancer diagnosed in 1979 were compared with those of a random sample of 1800 women drawn from the list of residents in the same city. Among women aged 25–44 and 45+ years, age-adjusted odds ratios for birth in southern Italy were respectively 1.3 (95% CL, 0.1–2.1) and 0.7 (95% CL, 0.5–0.9). In women aged 45+ years, odds ratios increased with length of residence in Torino.
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Cigarette consumption was compared between 355 males with cancer of the lower urinary tract and 276 male hospital controls. Both duration of smoking and average daily consumption of cigarettes showed a dose-response relationship with risks of developing bladder cancer. Quitting smoking seems to have a protective role, whereas higher relative risks are associated with an early age at start of smoking. The use of a filter seems to have a weak protective effect.
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A hospital-based case-control study on soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was conducted in 1983-84 in Torino and in Padova (Italy). Cases (36 children with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and 16 non RMS-STS) were compared to 326 controls. Histories of parental smoking habits and occupations, parental and children's exposure to ionizing radiation, children's diseases and some other variables were collected through interviews to the relatives attending the child in the hospital. A non statistically significant association was observed with both maternal age above 30 at child's birth (STS: OR = 1.5, C.I. = 0.8-2.9; RMS: OR = 1.9, C.I. = 0.9-4.0) and « in utero » exposure to diagnostic radiation (STS: OR = 1.9, C.I. = 0.5-6.5, based on 4 cases). No association was found with children's previous diseases. Paternal and maternal smoking habits were similar for RMS and STS cases and controls. Some positive associations with either maternal or paternal occupational histories were identified. They are difficult to interpret in view of the large number of comparisons and small absolute figures. They included maternal employment as medical doctor and nurse, farmer, textile worker and machine tool operator. An association was also observed with paternal occupation as butcher, building worker or employment in the production of domestic appliances. One case and no controls reported a maternal aunt affected by breast cancer.
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Torino, Italy
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Mosso ML, Castello M, Fossati Bellani F, Di Tullio MT, Loiacono G, Paolucci G, Tamaro P, Terracini B, Pastore G. Neurofibromatosis and Malignant Childhood Cancers: A Survey in Italy, 1970–83. Tumori 2018; 73:209-12. [PMID: 3111044 DOI: 10.1177/030089168707300301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Neural tumors, Wilms’ tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma and several types of leukemia have been previously described in association with neurofibromatosis (NF). In a nation-wide collection of cases in Italy, 15 children (0–14 years of age) with NF and cancer or leukemia were identified; 13 of them had been diagnosed with cancer between 1976–83. The expected number of children with cancer and NF in 1976–83 was 4.48. The distribution of tumor types was different from that found in the general population, with a higher proportion of tumors of neural crest origin as well as soft tissue sarcomas. In 7/15 the family history was positive for NF; in 5/7 the individuals affected included the mother and/or a maternal relative.
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Aims and Background A cohort study was conducted in order to measure cause-specific mortality among parents of children recorded in the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont. It is the first study carried out on the subject in southern Europe. Methods and Study Design The study comprised the 740 children resident in Turin and in whom a cancer had been diagnosed in the period 1967-1991. Nominal data were obtained for 723 fathers and 733 mothers. At the end of the follow-up in 1995, 645 fathers were alive, 68 dead and 10 untraceable. Corresponding figures for mothers were 700, 28 and 5. Cause of death was known for 91 of 96 parents. Results The period of observation of parents started on the birth of the index child, however mortality analyses were restricted to the period after 1965 because of limited availability of local reference rates. Total mortality was lower than expected among fathers (66 observed deaths vs 88.2 expected, P <0.05) and mothers (28 vs 31.4). Fathers showed deficits (not statistically significant) of lung neoplasms (4 vs 9.9), cardiovascular diseases (18 vs 27.1) and hepatic cirrhosis (2 vs 6.6). No statistically significant variations in mortality were observed with time from diagnosis or according to life status of the children. No cancer deaths occurred among the mothers of sarcoma cases whereas 1.9 were expected. Conclusions The data do not indicate any increase in mortality from cancer or other causes and, on the contrary, show a reduction in mortality which was more evident for the causes related to life style.
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- Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO-Piedmont), San Giovanni Battista Hospital and University, Turin, Italy
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The present report shows that the province of Torino, Italy, (6830 sq Km, population in 1966, 2.074.893) is a high risk area for laryngeal cancer. A total of 875 cases occurring in residents in the province were forwarded to the Cancer Registry of Piedmont (RTP) in 1965–69. A histological report was available in 67.9 % cases, while in 21.8 % the death certificate was the only document with diagnosis of laryngeal cancer (table 1). Cases were uniformly distributed throughout the 5 years covered by the study: the number of cases with death certificate only progressively decreased from 59 in 1965 to 21 in 1969 (table 3). For the purposes of the present study, the province of Torino has been divided into 3 areas, i.e. the city of Torino (population 1.107.919), the 23 suburbs (total population 340.951) and the non-metropolitan part of the province (population 626.023). Among the three areas, the relative frequency of laryngeal cancer/all malignant tumours recorded at the RTP in men was 5.78 % in the city of Torino, 6.43 % in the suburbs and 4.77 % in the non-metropolitan part of the province (table 4). The difference between the city of Torino and the suburbs was not significant (p > 0.05) while the difference both between the city of Torino and the non metropolitan part of the province and between the suburbs and the non metropolitan areas was significant (p < 0.05 and p ∼ 0.01 respectively). In other cancer registries (3) the relative frequencies of laryngeal cancer were under 2.86 % with the exception of Israel (3.24 %) and Bombay (9.26 %). In women, the relative frequency of laryngeal cancer fluctuated between 0.25 and 0.32 % in the different areas of the province of Torino, i.e. in the same order of those observed in other cancer registries with the exception of Bombay (2.07%) (3). In the province of Torino considered as a whole, age standardized annual incidence/100.000 of laryngeal cancer was 12.6 in men and 0.6 in women. Incidences truncated to ages 35–64 were 25.5 and 0.9 respectively (table 5). In men these rates are approximately 5–7 times higher than those recorded in Norway, Sweden and Denmark and about 3.5–6 times higher than those recorded in the six cancer registries operating in Great Britain. A comparison between the province of Torino and other cancer registries on age specific incidences (table 6, text-fig. 3) shows that the ratio province of Torino/other registries is relatively higher at age 35–44 than later in life. This is considered as evidence of an increase of the environmental carcinogenic load in the province of Torino during recent years. In men, age standardized incidences and incidences truncated to ages 35–64 were slightly but not significantly higher in the city of Torino than in the suburbs. On the other hand, in both the city of Torino and the suburbs they were 1.5–1.7 times higher than in the non-metropolitan part of the province (table 5). The difference concerned mainly age groups over 55 (text-fig. 2). However, the incidence of laryngeal cancer truncated to ages 35–64 in the non-metropolitan part of the province of Torino was still 7.2 times higher than in the rural population of Norway and 2.1–4.1 times higher than in the six cancer registries operating in Great Britain (3). This suggests that factors connected with life in the metropolitan area of Torino (such as air pollution) are a minor cause of the excess of laryngeal cancer in the province of Torino.
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95 Wistar rats were given 5 administrations of 10 mg/kg heptachlor in corn oil each by stomach tube, every second day starting at 10 days of age. Seven animals died before weaning. No early deaths were recorded among 36 controls given corn oil only. 29 experimental animals were killed at 60 weeks of age to detect early changes which were nevertheless absent. Growth and survival rates were similar in experimental and control animals. The incidence of tumors at different sites in males and that of adrenal, thyroid and pituitary tumors in females were comparable in both groups. 9 of 28 treated females developed a total of 12 tumors in various organs (including 5 mammary tumors and 2 renal lipomatous tumors) whereas 4 of 27 control females developed a total of 4 tumors (2 of which were located in the breast). In view of the different locations of the tumors and the lack of the reproducibility of the finding among males the results are not considered as evidence of carcinogenicity of heptachlor under the present experimental conditions.
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Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta are in the NW part of Italy. In 1967 total population and population aged 0-14 were respectively 4.338.000 and 841.000. During the period 1965-69 a total of 688 cases of cancer (including leukemia) were diagnosed in children under 15 years of age resident in this area. The Cancer Registry of Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta (RTP) provided information on 465 children; the other 223 were collected through additional investigation in the files of 31 university or hospital departments of the region and 5 extraregional hospitals. Distribution through the 5 years covered by the investigation is shown in Table 1. Histological or hematological confirmation of the diagnosis was available in 499 cases (73%). The 688 cases included 216 leukemias, 131 tumors of the central nervous system, 40 neuroblastomas, 82 lymphomas (including 34 cases of Hodgkin's disease), 46 nephroblastomas, 32 soft-tissue sarcomas, 29 bone sarcomas (including 5 cases of Ewing's disease), 25 retinoblastomas, 12 thyroid tumors, 10 extragenital teratomas, 5 ovarian dysgerminomas, 4 tumours of the testes, 4 hepatoblastomas and 52 other tumours (Table 2). The number of children under 15 years of age dying of cancer during 1965-69 was 341 (Table 2). Incidence and mortality rates by age groups are given in Tables 3 and 4. The rates were of the same order as those observed in the U.S. and in other European cancer registries during the same period (Tables 4, 5 and 6). The mortality rate for nephroblastomas at age 0-4 was 1,09/100.000/year, i.e. slightly higher than that observed in the U.S. in 1960 but about twice as high as that observed in the U.S. in 1967 (14). Incidence and mortality rates for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were about 3 times higher in males than in females (Table 3). The difference was less obvious during the first five years of life, in which the total number of diagnosed lymphomas was 16.
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C3H and Swiss male mice were given a single subcutaneous injection of 1 mg methylcholanthrene and were subsequently centrifuged (5 weekly treatments for 5 weeks: at each treatment mice were centrifuged at 3.8 g for 1 h). Tumor incidence was 100 % in both stressed and non-stressed mice: no differences in survival time were observed.
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Mortality rates of cancer of the larynx in the town of Torino, in the whole of Italy and in France during 1950–71 are reported. Age standardized mortality rates as well as mortality rates truncated to the period 35–64 years of age are reported in Table 1 for males and in Table 2 for females. Graph 1 represents age specific mortality rates for cancer of the larynx in the three areas in 1966–67. Graphs 2, 3 and 4 report mortality rates in males in the three ares for cohort of birth. All rates are annual/100.000. An increase of mortality for cancer of the larynx in men is well documented in the town of Torino. From 1951 to 1966 the mortality rate truncated to age 35–64 increased from 6.3 to 12.0. The proportion of mortality for cancer of the larynx/mortality for all cancers during the same period increased from 3.1 % to 5.4%. In Italy, the mortality rate in men aged 35–64 was 6.5 in 1952 and 9.3 in 1967: during the same period the proportion of mortality for cancer of the larynx/mortality for all cancers increased from 3.8 % to 4.4 %. In France, the tendency to an increase of mortality for laryngeal cancer after 1951 was absent or debatable, although both the mortality rates of cancer of the larynx and the proportion of mortality for cancer of the larynx/mortality for all cancers were consistently higher than in Italy or in Torino. However, in 1966–67 at ages 35–44 the mortality rate for cancer of the larynx in men was higher in Torino than in France (Graph 1).
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Terracini B, Palestro G, Ruà S, Trevisio A. A Study on the Role of Compensatory Hyperplasia in Renal Carcinogenesis with Dimethylnitrosamine in the Rat. Tumori 2018; 55:357-69. [PMID: 5405083 DOI: 10.1177/030089166905500602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Two experiments of renal carcinogenesis with dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) are described. In experiment I, the carcinogenicity of a single neonatal injection of DMN was compared in 34 intact rats and in 38 rats right-nephrectomized at 8–10 weeks of age. A total of 37 tumor-bearing kidneys were seen: both tubular and anaplastic; tumor incidence and time of observation showed no significant differences between intact and nephrectomized animals. Liver tumors were seen in 38 of 72 rats. In experiment II, 64 adult rats were given DMN in the drinking water for 2 weeks at a concentration corresponding to half an effective dose: 20 rats were used as non-nephrectomized controls; the others were right nephrectomized either on the 7th - 8th day of treatment with DMN or 15 days prior to the beginning of the treatment with the carcinogen. In no case did unilateral nephrectomy have a modifying effect upon carcinogenesis. In nephrectomized rats nonneoplastic nephritic changes were more severe than in intact animals. The design of the present experiments is compared with that of previous studies on the role of either partial hepatectomy or unilateral nephrectomy in carcinogenesis.
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Tomatis L, Turusov V, Terracini B, Day N, Barthel WF, Charles RT, Collins GB, Boiocchi M. Storage Levels of Ddt Metabolites in Mouse Tissues following Long Term Exposure to Technical DDT. Tumori 2018; 57:377-96. [PMID: 5148163 DOI: 10.1177/030089167105700603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The storage levels of DDT and its metabolites, following the long term administration of technical DDT at the dose levels of 2, 20, 50 and 250 ppm to mice, were evaluated in the fat tissue, liver, kidney, brain and reproductive organs. In addition, storage levels were evaluated in foetuses and newborns of DDT-treated mothers. Apart from op'-DDT, there was a direct relationship between the concentration of each metabolite in each organ and the dose to which the animal was exposed. The highest concentration of DDT and metabolites was found in the fat tissue followed by reproductive organs, liver and kidney together, and lastly brain. The most prevalent metabolite was pp'-DDT, except in the liver, where pp'-DDD showed the highest concentration. Pregnant females had lower concentrations of all metabolites than non-pregnant females. The concentration of residues in samples of total foetal litters was directly related to the concentration of DDT fed to the mother. There was a strong negative correlation between the concentration of pp'-DDT and that of pp'-DDD in the foetuses and the placentas of the same litter. A significant increase in whole body DDT concentration was observed shortly after birth.
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Pastore G, Mosso ML, Magnani C, Luzzatto L, Bianchi M, Terracini B. Physical Impairment and Social Life, Goals among Adult Long-term Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Population-based Study from the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, Italy. Tumori 2018; 87:372-8. [PMID: 11989588 DOI: 10.1177/030089160108700603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Aims and Background The study describes the health status and the attainment of life goals in the adult survivors of childhood cancer recorded at the Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont. Methods and Study Design A postal questionnaire was sent to the general practitioner of the 690 cases born before 1976 and alive in 1991 after at least 5 years from diagnosis. The answer was received for 485 (72.9%) included in the analyses. Items in the questionnaire were: sequelae related to cancer and its treatment, health-related quality of life (according to Bloom's criteria), educational level attained, and employment status. Results Vital and marital status were obtained for all 690 cases at the offices of the town of residence. No medical condition was reported for 309 cases (63.7%). The overall proportion with a high school or university education was compared to corresponding figures for Piedmont in 1991, adjusted by age, and was as high as in the general population. Similar results are observed for occupation. Patients of both genders were married less than expected. Patients with leukemia (112 cases), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (34) or Hodgkin's lymphoma (52) were reported to have the highest quality of life. In contrast, patients with tumors of the central nervous system (151) had the highest frequency of sequelae and the lowest score for health-related quality of life. They also presented the lowest educational achievement, the lowest proportion of employment and, among males, the lowest frequency of marriage. Conclusions Our study shows a good social adjustment of adult survivors from childhood cancer, with the exception of central nervous system tumors. From the methodologic point of view, the present study shows the feasibility of surveillance surveys on health-related quality of life with the contribution of general practitioners.
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- Childhood Cancer Registry of Piedmont, Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, CPO Piedmont, San Giovanni Hospital, Turin, Italy
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The relevant information concerning the long-term experiments with the most commonly used chlorinated hydrocarbons are reviewed and tabulated. Some experiments with DDT, aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor gave evidence of a weak carcinogenicity for laboratory animals; the results however have not been unequivocally confirmed. The following possibilities are discussed: 1) that the tumors produced in some experiments are related to a real carcinogenicity of the chemicals under investigation, 2) that they belong to the group of the « spontaneous » tumors, 3) that they are the result of a synergistic action of the pesticide and other factors. None of these suggestions can give a comprehensive interpretation of all the experimental results. It is emphasized that a dose-response relationship has not been demonstrated in any of the experiments under review and that, particularly for DDT, the purity of the chemical was reported only in a few instances. Carbon tetrachloride produced hepatomas in mice and hamsters; however, its use in agriculture does not appear to create a major carcinogenic hazard for men.
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Baur X, Terracini B, Belpoggi F, Budnik LT, Woitowitz HJ, Soskolne CL. Commentary to the article lung function not affected by asbestos exposure in workers with normal Computed Tomography scan, by Schikowsky, Felten, et al., 2017. Am J Ind Med 2018. [PMID: 29542198 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- European Society for Environmental and Occupational Medicine; Berlin Germany
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology; CPO Piemonte and University of Turin; Turin Italy
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- Ramazzini Institute, Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Centre; Bentivoglio, Bologna Italy
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- University of Hamburg, Hamburg and European Society for Environmental and Occupational Medicine; Berlin Germany
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- University of Alberta; Edmonton Canada
- Health Research Institute, University of Canberra; Canberra Australia
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Terracini B. [Parliamentary committee of inquiry about health of Italian soldiers exposed to uranium, asbestos, and vaccines]. Epidemiol Prev 2018; 42:114-115. [PMID: 29774705 DOI: 10.19191/ep18.2.p114.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Terracini B. [Anna Frank]. Epidemiol Prev 2018; 42:9. [PMID: 29506353 DOI: 10.19191/ep18.1.p009.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Oliver LC, Belpoggi F, Budnik LT, Egilman D, Frank AL, Mandrioli D, Soskolne CL, Terracini B, Welch L, Baur X. Correspondence regarding the article "The asbestos fibre burden in human lungs: new insights into the chrysotile debate". Eur Respir J 2017; 50:50/6/1701644. [PMID: 29269580 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01644-2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- L Christine Oliver
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Occupational Health Initiatives, Inc., Brookline, MA, USA
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- European Society for Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Berlin, Germany.,University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Alpert Medical School Dept of Medicine, Brown University, Attleboro, MA, USA
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- Drexel University School of Public Health and College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.,Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Sciences Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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- European Society for Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Magnani C, Mirabelli D, Terracini B. Comment on "Mesothelioma from asbestos exposures: Epidemiologic patterns and impact in the United States" by R A Lemen, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B 2016;19:250-265. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 2017; 20:387-388. [PMID: 29131723 DOI: 10.1080/10937404.2017.1400762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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- Corrado Magnani
- a Unit of Medical Statistics and Cancer Epidemiology , University of Eastern Piedmont, "Maggiore della Carità" Hospital and CPO Piemonte , Novara , Italy
- c Interdepartmental Centre G. Scansetti for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates , University of Turin , Turin , Italy
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- b Unit of Cancer Epidemiology , CPO Piemonte and University of Turin , Turin , Italy
- c Interdepartmental Centre G. Scansetti for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates , University of Turin , Turin , Italy
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- b Unit of Cancer Epidemiology , CPO Piemonte and University of Turin , Turin , Italy
- c Interdepartmental Centre G. Scansetti for Studies on Asbestos and other Toxic Particulates , University of Turin , Turin , Italy
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Terracini B. [A post-truth about childhood cancers in Italy]. Epidemiol Prev 2017; 41:157-158. [PMID: 28929706 DOI: 10.19191/ep17.3-4.p157.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Terracini B. Canada annonunce ban on asbestos. Historic defeat of one of the most powerful industrial lobbies. Epidemiol Prev 2017; 41:11-12. [PMID: 28322522 DOI: 10.19191/ep17.1.p011.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Ferrante D, Mirabelli D, Tunesi S, Terracini B, Magnani C. Pleural mesothelioma and asbestos exposure: a case–control study with quantitative risk assessment—response to Marsh and Benson's letter. Occup Environ Med 2016; 74:157-158. [DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2016-104091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Terracini B, Mirabelli D, Baur X, Landrigan PJ, Ramazzini C. Re: Comments on the causation of malignant mesothelioma: Rebutting the false concept that recent exposures to asbestos do not contribute to causation of mesothelioma. Am J Ind Med 2016; 59:1180-1182. [PMID: 27785864 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Benedetto Terracini
- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin; Turin Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, CPO Piemonte and University of Turin; Turin Italy
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- Institut für Arbeitsmedizin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Arbeitsmedizin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Berlin Germany
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Terracini B. [An Italian example of misuse of scientific evidence]. Epidemiol Prev 2016; 40:273. [PMID: 27764920 DOI: 10.19191/ep16.5.p273.098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Benedetto Terracini
- past director di Epidemiologia&Prevenzione. .,già presidente del Comitato tecnico-scientifico dello studio Moniter
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Dal Maso L, Terracini B, Mosso ML, Buzzoni C. [Hodgkin lymphoma in Italian children and adolescents]. Epidemiol Prev 2016; 40:382. [PMID: 27764936 DOI: 10.19191/ep16.5.p382.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Maule M, Terracini B. [Childhood cancer epidemiology and available evidence on case clustering]. Epidemiol Prev 2016; 40:5-8. [PMID: 27807953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
This paper introduces a Monograph on childhood cancer clusters addressed to Italian public health workers, paediatricians and paediatric oncologists, and the general public. Two issues have been underlined in most definitions of cancer clusters reported in the literature over the last 30 years. The first is the need for an unbiased methodological approach for the detection and the interpretation of clustering and of individual clusters. The other is the responsibility for scientists and public health workers to unravel suspicious events and to interact with the population in circumstances which may turn out to be false alarms. The relative weight given to epidemiological methods and to risk perception has varied between definitions of clusters given in different periods. In the field of childhood cancer clusters, epidemiological research has produced very little fresh knowledge. However, it is recognized that this is not a sufficient reason for refusing to pay attention to reports of perceived clusters. Models of spatio-temporal interactions according to Birch et al. (2000) are taken in consideration: the literature offers a very limited number of circumstances fitting such models. In Italy, over the years, only two childhood cancer clusters have been reported in the indexed literature, both of them regarded cases of acute lymphatic leukaemia and occurred in Sardinia in the Eighties and in the area of Roma in the Nineties. A possible reason for the paucity of reports (compared, for instance, to the UK scenario) is the limited availability of health statistics.
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- Milena Maule
- Unità di epidemiologia dei tumori, Dipartimento di scienze mediche, Università di Torino e Centro per la prevenzione oncologica della Regione Piemonte, Torino.
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- Unità di epidemiologia dei tumori, Dipartimento di scienze mediche, Università di Torino e Centro per la prevenzione oncologica della Regione Piemonte, Torino.
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Portier CJ, Armstrong BK, Baguley BC, Baur X, Belyaev I, Bellé R, Belpoggi F, Biggeri A, Bosland MC, Bruzzi P, Budnik LT, Bugge MD, Burns K, Calaf GM, Carpenter DO, Carpenter HM, López-Carrillo L, Clapp R, Cocco P, Consonni D, Comba P, Craft E, Dalvie MA, Davis D, Demers PA, De Roos AJ, DeWitt J, Forastiere F, Freedman JH, Fritschi L, Gaus C, Gohlke JM, Goldberg M, Greiser E, Hansen J, Hardell L, Hauptmann M, Huang W, Huff J, James MO, Jameson CW, Kortenkamp A, Kopp-Schneider A, Kromhout H, Larramendy ML, Landrigan PJ, Lash LH, Leszczynski D, Lynch CF, Magnani C, Mandrioli D, Martin FL, Merler E, Michelozzi P, Miligi L, Miller AB, Mirabelli D, Mirer FE, Naidoo S, Perry MJ, Petronio MG, Pirastu R, Portier RJ, Ramos KS, Robertson LW, Rodriguez T, Röösli M, Ross MK, Roy D, Rusyn I, Saldiva P, Sass J, Savolainen K, Scheepers PTJ, Sergi C, Silbergeld EK, Smith MT, Stewart BW, Sutton P, Tateo F, Terracini B, Thielmann HW, Thomas DB, Vainio H, Vena JE, Vineis P, Weiderpass E, Weisenburger DD, Woodruff TJ, Yorifuji T, Yu IJ, Zambon P, Zeeb H, Zhou SF. Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). J Epidemiol Community Health 2016; 70:741-5. [PMID: 26941213 PMCID: PMC4975799 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-207005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR8227, Roscoff, France
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- Institute for Cancer Prevention and Research, University of Florence, Italy
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- National Cancer Research Institute, San Martino—IST Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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- STAMI, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
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- Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, USA
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- Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, IstitutoSuperiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Center for Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Environmental Health Trust, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA and The Hebrew University Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
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- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Biostatistics Branch, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Peking Univ School of Public Health, Beijing, China
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- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- CWJ Consulting, LLC, Cape Coral, Florida, USA
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- Institute of Environment, Health and Societies, Brunel University London, London, UK
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- Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, National University of La Plata, Argentina
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- Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,New York, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
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- Department of Prevention, Occupational Health Unit, National Health Service, Padua, Italy
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- Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Unit, ISPO-Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Florence, Italy
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, City University of New York School of Public Health, USA
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- School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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- Health and Environment-Department of Prevention, Local Health Authority-Empoli, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, School of the Coast & Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, USA
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- Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Iowa Superfund Research Program and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Center for Research in Health, Work and Environment (CISTA), National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-León), León, Nicaragua
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- Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Associated Institute of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Natural Resources Defense Council and George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
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- Nanosafety Research Centre, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
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- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South WalesAustralia
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- Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Istituto di Geosceinze e Georisorse (CNR), Padova, Italy
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- German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg and Faculty of Pharmacy, Heidelberg University, Germany
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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- Institute of Nanoproduct Safety Research, Hoseo University, Asan, The Republic of Korea
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- Department of Prevention and Evaluation, Leibniz-Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Bremen, Germany
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- College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Terracini B, Bisanti L, Fabiani L, Valenti M, Paci E. [Planning research and surveillance after natural disasters: outcome of the scientific publications about L'Aquila (Central Italy) and other places struck by an earthquake]. Epidemiol Prev 2016; 40:106-8. [PMID: 27291218 DOI: 10.19191/ep16.2s1.p106.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Dipartimento di medicina clinica, sanità pubblica, scienze della vita e dell'ambiente, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
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- Dipartimento di scienze cliniche applicate e biotecnologie, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
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