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Carlo La Vecchia

Researcher at University of Milan

Publications -  1362
Citations -  67960

Carlo La Vecchia is an academic researcher from University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Odds ratio. The author has an hindex of 112, co-authored 1265 publications receiving 56282 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlo La Vecchia include Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research & Cancer Epidemiology Unit.

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Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Valery L. Feigin, +416 more
- 03 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national levels.
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Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

Christina Fitzmaurice, +627 more
- 27 Sep 2019 - 
TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study as discussed by the authors has been used to describe cancer burden for 29 cancer groups in 195 countries from 1990 through 2017 to provide data needed for cancer control planning, including cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
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Alcohol Drinking in Never Users of Tobacco, Cigarette Smoking in Never Drinkers, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

TL;DR: The results represent the most precise estimates available of the independent association of each of the two main risk factors of head and neck cancer, and they exemplify the strengths of large-scale consortia in cancer epidemiology.
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The global, regional, and national burden of cirrhosis by cause in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Sadaf G. Sepanlou, +201 more
TL;DR: Mortality, prevalence, and DALY estimates are compared with those expected according to the Socio-demographic Index (SDI) as a proxy for the development status of regions and countries, and a significant increase in age-standardised prevalence rate of decompensated cirrhosis between 1990 and 2017.
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Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

Sagi Abelson, +90 more
- 09 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: Deep sequencing is used to analyse genes that are recurrently mutated in AML to distinguish between individuals who have a high risk of developing AML and those with benign ARCH, providing proof-of-concept that it is possible to discriminate ARCH from pre-AML many years before malignant transformation.