Publications by authors named "Federica Teglia"
Background: This study aimed to explore the association between occupational exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) and gynaecological and breast cancers.
Methods: A systematic review was performed to identify cohort studies reporting results on the association between occupational exposure to DE and risk of gynaecological and breast cancers. STROBE guidelines and PECOS criteria were followed.
Background: Our objective was to study the association between occupational exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) and skin cancer.
Methods: A systematic review following STROBE guidelines and PECOS criteria was conducted to identify cohort studies describing the association between occupational DE exposure and the risk of skin cancer. We extracted 12 independent risk estimates for melanoma skin cancer (MSC), 8 for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), and 3 for skin cancer not otherwise specified (SC-NOS).
Exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) and other fossil fuels in the workplace can cause several health effects including cancer. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies examining the association between occupational DE exposure and the risk of head and neck cancer (HNC), including cancer of the oral cavity, pharynx and larynx. We included cohort studies mentioned in the Monograph of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2014, on DE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diesel exhaust (DE) is human carcinogen with sufficient evidence only for lung cancer. Systematic evidence on other cancer types is scarce, thus we aimed to systematically review current literature on the association between occupational DE exposure and risk of liver and pancreatic cancers.
Methods: We performed a systematic literature review to identify cohort studies on occupational DE exposure and risk of cancers other than lung.
Purpose: Diesel exhaust (DE) is an established lung carcinogen. The association with leukemia is not well established. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies to determine the association between occupational DE exposure and risk of leukemia.
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- During the COVID-19 pandemic, many cancer-related medical appointments and hospital stays were delayed, leading to a significant drop in patient visits.
- Researchers looked at data from different studies to see how much these visits and admissions decreased during the pandemic compared to before it.
- They found that visits dropped by about 38% and hospital admissions by about 26%, which could harm cancer patients' health in the future.
The facts that occupational cancer in women is under-investigated, with few in-depth analyses are well known. In recent decades the workforce has changed, with an increasing number of women employed. Therefore, the inclusion of women in occupational cancer studies has become more urgent and feasible than in the past decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany health services, including cancer care, have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. This study aimed at providing a systematic review of the impact of the epidemic on cancer diagnostic tests and diagnosis worldwide. In our systematic review and meta-analysis, databases such as Pubmed, Proquest and Scopus were searched comprehensively for articles published between January 1st, 2020 and December 12th, 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the last years, the discussion about the role of chance in the causation of cancer has generated much scientific and public debate. The concept that chance, or "bad luck", as responsible for a majority of the variation of cancer incidence, may be misleading, possibly causing an underestimation of the role played by known risk factors. In this commentary we discuss how host and external factors interact with chance in cancer causation in different ways, and provide examples of situations where chance appears to play only a minor role on cancer onset.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: The COVID-19 pandemic has put a serious strain on health services, including cancer treatment.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the changes in cancer treatment worldwide during the first phase of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
Data Sources: Pubmed, Proquest, and Scopus databases were searched comprehensively for articles published between 1 January 2020 and 12 December 2021, in order to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted following the PRISMA statement.
Cancer occurrence is characterized globally by profound socioeconomic differences. Occupation is a fundamental component of socioeconomic status. In this review, we discuss the role of occupation as a determinant of cancer disparities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A decrease in cancer mortality has been reported in the USA, possibly due to decreased incidence, downstaging and improved survival. The aim of the present study is to estimate the contribution of these factors on the trend in cancer mortality.
Methods: Data on incidence, mortality, stage at diagnosis, and overall and stage-specific survival for six common digestive and respiratory cancers (esophagus, stomach, colorectal, liver, pancreas and lung) during 2009-2013 in the USA from the surveillance, epidemiology and end results (SEER) program, was analyzed using generalized linear models separately among men and women.
Importance: Public health services, including cancer screening tests, have been affected by the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Objective: To investigate the pandemic's association with cancer screening worldwide.
Data Sources: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, databases such as PubMed, ProQuest, and Scopus were searched comprehensively for articles published between January 1, 2020, and December 12, 2021.
: Inconsistent findings have been reported regarding the relationship between dietary iron intake and the risk of gastric cancer (GC). : We pooled data from 11 case-control studies from the Stomach Cancer Pooling (StoP) Project. Total dietary iron intake was derived from food frequency questionnaires combined with national nutritional tables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, cancer patients affected by COVID-19 have been reported to experience poor prognosis; however, a detailed quantification of the effect of cancer on outcome of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients has not been performed.
Methods: To carry out a systematic review of the studies comparing the outcome of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients with and without cancer, a search string was devised which was used to identify relevant publications in PubMed up to December 31, 2020. We selected three outcomes: mortality, access to ICU, and COVID-19 severity or hospitalization.
An Online First version of this article was made available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Inflammation is a long-established hallmark of liver fibrosis and carcinogenesis. Eosinophils are emerging as crucial components of the inflammatory process influencing cancer development. The role of blood eosinophils in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma receiving systemic treatment is an unexplored field.
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