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Paolo Boffetta

Researcher Next ID · RN-028385

Researcher · Medicine

Stony Brook University Hospital

Stony Brook, Italy

Not currently recruitingFunding unknown
Works count
2,079
Citation count
114,821
H-index
168
i10-index
1,191

Research interests

Medicine
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Occupational and environmental lung diseases
Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
Head and Neck Cancer Studies
Cancer Risks and Factors
Nutritional Studies and Diet

Publications

  • Global trends in mortality from intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

    Journal of Hepatology · 2019 · 10.1016/j.jhep.2019.03.013

  • Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies in Iran (the PERSIAN Cohort Study): Rationale, Objectives, and Design

    American Journal of Epidemiology · 2017 · 10.1093/aje/kwx314

  • Association of Adherence to a Healthy Diet with Cognitive Decline in European and American Older Adults: A Meta-Analysis within the CHANCES Consortium

    Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders · 2017 · 10.1159/000464269

  • Risk factors for lung cancer worldwide

    European Respiratory Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00359-2016

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality—a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    International Journal of Epidemiology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw319

  • Whole grain consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause and cause specific mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies

    BMJ · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i2716

  • Alcohol consumption and site-specific cancer risk: a comprehensive dose–response meta-analysis

    British Journal of Cancer · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.579

  • Alcohol drinking and colorectal cancer risk: an overall and dose–response meta-analysis of published studies

    Annals of Oncology · 2011 · 10.1093/annonc/mdq653

  • Association between Body-Mass Index and Risk of Death in More Than 1 Million Asians

    New England Journal of Medicine · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1010679

  • Cigarette smoking and lung cancer—relative risk estimates for the major histological types from a pooled analysis of case–control studies

    International Journal of Cancer · 2011 · 10.1002/ijc.27339

  • Lung Cancer in Never Smokers: Clinical Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors

    Clinical Cancer Research · 2009 · 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-09-0376

  • Interaction between Tobacco and Alcohol Use and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention · 2009 · 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-08-0347

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature06885

  • Smokeless tobacco and cancer

    The Lancet Oncology · 2008 · 10.1016/s1470-2045(08)70173-6

  • Improved Identification of von Hippel-Lindau Gene Alterations in Clear Cell Renal Tumors

    Clinical Cancer Research · 2008 · 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-4921

  • Lung cancer susceptibility locus at 5p15.33

    Nature Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ng.254

  • General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

    New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · 10.1056/nejmoa0801891

  • Lung Cancer Occurrence in Never-Smokers: An Analysis of 13 Cohorts and 22 Cancer Registry Studies

    PLoS Medicine · 2008 · 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050185

  • Assessment of cumulative evidence on genetic associations: interim guidelines

    International Journal of Epidemiology · 2007 · 10.1093/ije/dym159

  • Alcohol and cancer

    The Lancet Oncology · 2006 · 10.1016/s1470-2045(06)70577-0

  • Genetic Polymorphisms in the Base Excision Repair Pathway and Cancer Risk: A HuGE Review

    American Journal of Epidemiology · 2005 · 10.1093/aje/kwi318

  • Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study

    BMJ · 2005 · 10.1136/bmj.38415.644155.8f

  • Renal cell carcinoma in relation to cigarette smoking: Meta-analysis of 24 studies

    International Journal of Cancer · 2004 · 10.1002/ijc.20618

  • Metabolic gene polymorphism frequencies in control populations.

    PubMed · 2001

  • A meta-analysis of epidemiological studies on the combined effect of hepatitis B and C virus infections in causing hepatocellular carcinoma

    International Journal of Cancer · 1998 · 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19980130)75:3<347::aid-ijc4>3.0.co;2-2

Current projects

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