Showing papers by "Rodolfo Saracci published in 2015"
International Agency for Research on Cancer1, University College London2, Istituto Superiore di Sanità3, World Health Organization4, Institut Gustave Roussy5, University of Valencia6, Public Health England7, National Institutes of Health8, Netherlands Cancer Institute9, German Cancer Research Center10
TL;DR: The 12 recommendations are not smoking or using other tobacco products; avoiding second-hand smoke; being a healthy body weight; encouraging physical activity; having a healthy diet; and participating in organised screening programmes for bowel cancer, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.
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TL;DR: The recommendation on Environment and Occupation of the 4th edition of the European Code against Cancer, focusing on what individuals can do to reduce their cancer risk, reads: "In the workplace, protect yourself against cancer-causing substances by following health and safety instructions."
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TL;DR: A conflict of interest arises by having two conflicting goals in one's research and does not exist only in the opinion of some people or groups (or the authors of a paper).
Abstract: A conflict of interest arises by having two conflicting goals in one's research. The primary goal of research relevant to public health is to produce impartial evidence on health hazards for humans. Several entities - including industry - may have public health as a goal among others, but this is not their primary goal. Primary goals are in those cases profit or career, that conflict with the goal of health. It is a role of the State to foster research whose primary goal is impartial evidence on factors affecting population health. Disclosure of conflicts of interest is not enough: the view that disclosure solves all problems amounts to say that a declaration of having produced unbiased evidence is a self-fulfilling guarantee that the evidence will not be affected by conflicts of interest. This concept is seriously misleading. A conflict of interest arises from the circumstances in which research occurs and does not exist only in the opinion of some people or groups (or the authors of a paper).
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TL;DR: An environmental investigation on 206 samples of rocks, soils and building materials found concentrations of a number of carcinogens in concentrations lower than ‘deemed harmful to humans’, but Chrysotile asbestos-cement used in roofs was the only source of the mineral but was equally present in nearby villages with no high incidence of respiratory cancers.
Abstract: In this issue, Ortega-Guerrero et al 1 report on the incidence of mesothelioma and lung cancer in a small village of Central Mexico, Tierra Blanca de Abajo, where 254 people (134 men and 120 women) were living in 2012. Death rates for lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma were computed, and standardised to the age and sex population structure of the state (Guanajuato) within which Tierra Blanca is located. In the village the death rates for lung cancer were some 70 times higher than in Guanajuato for men (based on eight recorded cases) and 100 times higher in women (based on six cases), while for malignant mesothelioma, rates (based on a total of four recorded cases) were, respectively, 248 and 105 per 100 000 person-years. An environmental investigation on 206 samples of rocks, soils and building materials found concentrations of a number of carcinogens (arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium and nickel) in concentrations lower than ‘deemed harmful to humans’. Chrysotile asbestos-cement used in roofs was the only source of the mineral but was equally present in nearby villages with no high incidence of respiratory cancers. Erionite was identified in the area in zeolitic tuff, in fine-grained old-alluvial terraces and in adobe bricks used for construction.
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