Kari Hemminki

Research interests

Publications

• Cancer of unknown primary: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

  Annals of Oncology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2022.11.013

• ESMO Consensus Conference on testicular germ cell cancer: diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

  Annals of Oncology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1093/annonc/mdy217

• Low expression of hexokinase-2 is associated with false-negative FDG–positron emission tomography in multiple myeloma

  Blood · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2017-03-774422

• Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for multiple myeloma

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12050

• Patterns of metastasis in colon and rectal cancer

  Scientific Reports · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/srep29765

• Metastatic sites and survival in lung cancer

  Lung Cancer · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2014.07.020

• TERT promoter mutations in bladder cancer affect patient survival and disease recurrence through modification by a common polymorphism

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1310522110

• TERT Promoter Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Melanoma

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1230062

• A germline variant in the TP53 polyadenylation signal confers cancer susceptibility

  Nature Genetics · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.926

• Association Between TAS2R38 Gene Polymorphisms and Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study in Two Independent Populations of Caucasian Origin

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020464

• Variation in CDKN2A at 9p21.3 influences childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk

  Nature Genetics · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.585

• New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.412

• Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.296

• Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma

  Nature Genetics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.407

• A genome-wide association study identifies colorectal cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 10p14 and 8q23.3

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.111

• Risk of second primary cancer among patients with head and neck cancers: A pooled analysis of 13 cancer registries

  International Journal of Cancer · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.23798

• Does solar exposure, as indicated by the non-melanoma skin cancers, protect from solid cancers: Vitamin D as a possible explanation

  European Journal of Cancer · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2007.04.018

• Second Primary Cancers in Thyroid Cancer Patients: A Multinational Record Linkage Study

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2005-2009

• Risk of second cancer among women with breast cancer

  International Journal of Cancer · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.21651

• IPCS guidelines for the monitoring of genotoxic effects of carcinogens in humans

  Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s1383-5742(00)00049-1

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