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List of works by Domenico Franco Merlo

A historical cohort mortality study among shipyard workers in Genoa, Italy

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

A historical mortality study among bus drivers and bus maintenance workers exposed to urban air pollutants in the city of Genoa, Italy

scientific article published on 24 June 2010

About the "surprise question".

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Baseline chromosome aberrations in children.

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Baseline micronuclei frequency in children: estimates from meta- and pooled analyses.

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Biomarkers of exposure and effect in Bulgarian petrochemical workers exposed to benzene

scientific article published in May 2005

Biomonitoring of workers exposed to pesticides.

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Birth weight, head circumference, and prenatal exposure to acrylamide from maternal diet: the European prospective mother-child study (NewGeneris).

scientific article published on 23 September 2012

Blood levels of reduced and oxidized glutathione in malignant and non-malignant human colorectal lesions

scientific article published on 01 February 1990

Body Image Disorders and Surgical Timing in Patients Affected by Poland Syndrome: Data Analysis of 58 Case Studies

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Breast cancer incidence trends in European women aged 20–39 years at diagnosis

scientific article published on March 29, 2012

Bulky dna adducts in cord blood, maternal fruit-and-vegetable consumption, and birth weight in a European mother-child study (NewGeneris).

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

CTLA-4 in mesothelioma patients: tissue expression, body fluid levels and possible relevance as a prognostic factor.

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Cancer incidence in pet dogs: findings of the Animal Tumor Registry of Genoa, Italy.

scientific article published in July 2008

Cancer risk and the complexity of the interactions between environmental and host factors: HENVINET interactive diagrams as simple tools for exploring and understanding the scientific evidence.

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Children's exposure to environmental pollutants and biomarkers of genetic damage. I. Overview and critical issues

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Children's exposure to environmental pollutants and biomarkers of genetic damage. II. Results of a comprehensive literature search and meta-analysis.

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Cisplatin combined with the new cisplatin-procaine complex DPR: in vitro and in vivo studies

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Clinical Ethics Consultation and Research Ethics Consultation: A Call for Italy

scientific article published in January 2018

Clinical potentials of methylator phenotype in stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma: an open challenge.

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Coffee and tea consumption and risk of leukaemia in an adult population: A reanalysis of the Italian multicentre case-control study

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Coffee consumption and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: evidence from the Italian multicentre case-control study.

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Combined vemurafenib and fotemustine in patients with BRAFV600 melanoma progressing on vemurafenib

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Combining Shapley value and statistics to the analysis of gene expression data in children exposed to air pollution

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Cytogenetic effects in children and mothers exposed to air pollution assessed by the frequency of micronuclei and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH): a family pilot study in the Czech Republic

scientific article published on 07 July 2006

Duration of exposure to environmental carcinogens affects DNA-adduct level in human lymphocytes

scientific article published on 14 September 2010

Effect of the antiarrhythmic drug procainamide on the toxicity and antitumor activity of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Environmental exposure to xenoestrogens and oestrogen related cancers: reproductive system, breast, lung, kidney, pancreas, and brain

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Environmental, dietary, maternal, and fetal predictors of bulky DNA adducts in cord blood: a European mother-child study (NewGeneris)

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Ethical issues related to biomonitoring studies on children

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Ethics in studies on children and environmental health.

scientific article published on July 2007

Evaluation of CTLA-4 expression and relevance as a novel prognostic factor in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

scientific article published on 9 February 2012

Expression of Ribonucleotide Reductase Subunit-2 and Thymidylate Synthase Correlates with Poor Prognosis in Patients with Resected Stages I-III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Factors affecting symmetrization of the contralateral breast: a 7-year unilateral postmastectomy breast reconstruction experience.

scientific article published on 7 December 2010

Genome-wide profiling identifies the THYT1 signature as a distinctive feature of widely metastatic Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas.

scientific article published in December 2017

Genomic damage in children accidentally exposed to ionizing radiation: a review of the literature.

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HOXA7, 9, and 10 are methylation targets associated with aggressive behavior in meningiomas

scientific article published on 23 June 2012

Histotype-tailored neoadjuvant chemotherapy versus standard chemotherapy in patients with high-risk soft-tissue sarcomas (ISG-STS 1001): an international, open-label, randomised, controlled, phase 3, multicentre trial

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

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Improved therapeutic index of cisplatin by procaine hydrochloride.

scientific article published in April 1990

In utero exposure to compounds with dioxin-like activity and birth outcomes

scientific article published in March 2014

Increased incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma among longshoremen in Genoa, Italy: the role of sunlight and occupational exposure.

scientific article published in April 2005

Increased mitochondrial DNA copy number in occupations associated with low-dose benzene exposure

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Individual predictors of increased serum mesothelin in asbestos-exposed workers

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Inequity in the provision of and access to palliative care for cancer patients. Results from the Italian survey of the dying of cancer (ISDOC).

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Is letrozole needed for controlled ovarian stimulation in patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer?

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

Is soluble mesothelin-related protein an upfront predictive marker of pleural mesothelioma? A prospective study on Italian workers exposed to asbestos

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

Maternal diet during pregnancy and micronuclei frequency in peripheral blood T lymphocytes in mothers and newborns (Rhea cohort, Crete).

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Maternal diet, prenatal exposure to dioxin-like compounds and birth outcomes in a European prospective mother-child study (NewGeneris).

scientific article published on 30 March 2014

Medical monitoring of dioxin clean-up workers

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

Micronuclei in cord blood lymphocytes and associations with biomarkers of exposure to carcinogens and hormonally active factors, gene polymorphisms, and gene expression: the NewGeneris cohort

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Micronuclei in neonates and children: effects of environmental, genetic, demographic and disease variables

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Molecular epidemiology: new rules for new tools?

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Monitoring low benzene exposure: comparative evaluation of urinary biomarkers, influence of cigarette smoking, and genetic polymorphisms

scientific article published on September 2005

Mortality among shipyard workers in Genoa, Italy

scientific article published on January 1, 1979

Mortality among workers exposed to asbestos at the shipyard of Genoa, Italy: a 55 years follow-up

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Multiple regression analysis of cytogenetic human data.

scientific article published on August 1994

NewGeneris: a European study on maternal diet during pregnancy and child health

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Occupational exposure to carbon black and risk of bladder cancer

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Occupational exposure to carbon black and risk of cancer

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Outdoor air pollution exposures and micronuclei frequencies in lymphocytes from pregnant women and newborns in Crete, Greece (Rhea cohort).

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

PUREAIR protocol: randomized controlled trial of intensive pulmonary rehabilitation versus standard care in patients undergoing surgical resection for lung cancer.

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Para-aminobenzoic acid suppression of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) nephrotoxicity

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Phase II study of the pure non-steroidal antiandrogen nilutamide in prostatic cancer. Italian Prostatic Cancer Project (PONCAP)

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Pre-filled normal saline syringes to reduce totally implantable venous access device-associated bloodstream infection: a single institution pilot study

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Prediction of survival by thymidine labelling index in patients with resistant ovarian carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 January 1992

Preoperative chemo-radiation therapy for localised retroperitoneal sarcoma: a phase I-II study from the Italian Sarcoma Group.

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Prevalence of human papillomavirus cervical infection in an Italian asymptomatic population

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Protective effect on cisplatin hematotoxicity by procaine hydrochloride

scientific article published on May 30, 1992

Quantitative methylation analysis of HOXA3, 7, 9, and 10 genes in glioma: association with tumor WHO grade and clinical outcome.

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Randomised phase 3 open-label trial of first-line treatment with gemcitabine in association with docetaxel or paclitaxel in women with metastatic breast cancer: a comparison of different schedules and treatments.

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Regional pharmacokinetic selectivity of intrapleural cisplatin

scientific article published on January 1, 1991

Retrospective mortality cohort study of Italian workers compensated for silicosis

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Risk for secondary thyroid carcinoma after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation: an EBMT Late Effects Working Party Study.

scientific article published in June 2007

Risk of childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after parental occupational exposure to solvents and other agents: the SETIL Study

Risk of neuroblastoma, maternal characteristics and perinatal exposures: the SETIL study

Road Traffic Pollution and Childhood Leukemia: A Nationwide Case-control Study in Italy

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SETIL: Italian multicentric epidemiological case-control study on risk factors for childhood leukaemia, non hodgkin lymphoma and neuroblastoma: study population and prevalence of risk factors in Italy

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Scientific integrity: critical issues in environmental health research.

scientific article published on 5 June 2008

Searching PubMed for molecular epidemiology studies: the case of chromosome aberrations

scientific article published in May 2006

Second-line treatment with intravenous gemcitabine and oral etoposide in platinum-resistant advanced ovarian cancer patients: results of a phase II study.

scientific article published on 5 July 2011

Serum LAIR-2 is increased in autoimmune thyroid diseases.

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Sister chromatid exchange induction in peripheral blood lymphocytes of traffic police workers

scientific article published on November 27, 1997

Soft tissue sarcomas in Seveso

scientific article published on 01 August 1986

Soft-tissue sarcomas, malignant lymphomas, and 2,3,7,8-TCDD exposure in Seveso

scientific article published on 01 December 1986

Spontaneous abortions in female populations occupationally exposed to ionizing radiation.

scientific article published on 4 December 2007

Survival of high grade glioma patients depends on their age at diagnosis

scientific article published on 06 September 2009

The PREgnancy and FERtility (PREFER) study: an Italian multicenter prospective cohort study on fertility preservation and pregnancy issues in young breast cancer patients.

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The effect of high doses of folic acid and iron supplementation in early-to-mid pregnancy on prematurity and fetal growth retardation: the mother-child cohort study in Crete, Greece (Rhea study).

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

The influence of environmental exposure to complex mixtures including PAHs and lead on genotoxic effects in children living in Upper Silesia, Poland

scientific article published on 4 August 2006

The last three months of life of Italian cancer patients. Methods, sample characteristics and response rate of the Italian Survey of the Dying of Cancer (ISDOC)

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

The postoperative analgesic efficacy of preperitoneal continuous wound infusion compared to epidural continuous infusion with local anesthetics after colorectal cancer surgery: a randomized controlled multicenter study

scientific article published on November 9, 2012

The responses of lymphocytes from Asian and Caucasian diabetic patients and non-diabetics to hydrogen peroxide and sodium nitrite in the Comet assay

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The treatment of melanoma brain metastases before the advent of targeted therapies: associations between therapeutic choice, clinical symptoms and outcome with survival.

scientific article published in February 2014

The use of biomarkers for risk assessment: Reporting from the INTARESE/ENVIRISK Workshop in Prague.

scientific article published on 9 June 2010

Tumour kinetics, response to chemotherapy and survival in primary ovarian cancer

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Urinary benzene biomarkers and DNA methylation in Bulgarian petrochemical workers: study findings and comparison of linear and beta regression models

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Urinary t,t-muconic acid, S-phenylmercapturic acid and benzene as biomarkers of low benzene exposure

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Vitamin D insufficient levels during pregnancy and micronuclei frequency in peripheral blood T lymphocytes mothers and newborns (Rhea cohort, Crete).

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Workshop on ethics and communication in Copenhagen 11-13.3.2007

scientific article published on 5 June 2008