Publications by authors named "Elena Toninelli"
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- Occupational exposure contributes significantly to lung cancers, with 5-25% of cases linked to workplace conditions, but many go underreported, leading to personal and societal costs.
- A systematic search process was implemented in a hospital to identify, diagnose, and report occupational lung cancer cases, improving notification rates compared to previous years.
- The initiative yielded a large number of identified cases, attributed occupational causation to a quarter of interviewed patients, and improved compensation rates to 39%, showcasing the benefits of collaboration and thorough evaluation in addressing underreporting issues.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of urinary bladder cancer (UBC) have yielded common variants at 12 loci that associate with risk of the disease. We report here the results of a GWAS of UBC including 1670 UBC cases and 90 180 controls, followed by replication analysis in additional 5266 UBC cases and 10 456 controls. We tested a dataset containing 34.
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