Philippe Autier

..Chronic hyperinsulinemia may play a role in breast cancer etiology. We performed a meta-analysis examining whether serum concentrations of insulin and C-peptide are associated with increased breast cancer risk...

..See related Opinion article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/106 and Commentary http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/164...

..In this article, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology asks four experts their opinions on some of the pressing questions associated with breast cancer screening...

..Few studies in subjects over 50 yr of age have evaluated the influence of variable doses of vitamin D supplementation on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels...

..We hypothesized that this gradual implementation of breast cancer screening would be reflected in county-specific mortality patterns during the last 20 years...

..2% (-2.2 to 2.7%)]. Results from the West Midlands suggest that the breast screening program did not play a significant role in reductions in mortality caused by breast cancer...

..To compare trends in breast cancer mortality within three pairs of neighbouring European countries in relation to implementation of screening...

..To examine changes in temporal trends in breast cancer mortality in women living in 30 European countries...

..Early detection and treatment improvement will continue to reduce the mortality rates in Hong Kong and Singapore as observed in Western countries...

..Travels abroad were more prevalent among older Icelanders. The high prevalence of sunbed use probably contributed to the sharp increase in the incidence of melanoma in Iceland...

..This analysis suggests that ultraviolet radiation has a short-term promotional effect on melanocytes or nevocytes of the limbs, and is not associated with progression from thin to thick melanoma...

..To estimate the burden of melanoma resulting from sunbed use in western Europe...

..We assessed changes in advanced cancer incidence and cancer mortality in eight randomized trials of breast cancer screening...

..Estimation of changes in cancer incidence possibly induced by primary prevention policies requires knowledge of the level of exposure to risk factors targeted by these policies...

..To perform a quantitative estimate of the proportion of cancers attributable to occupational exposures in France in 2000...

..It points to the need for further studies on cancer determinants to improve prevention, early detection and therapeutic management of these diseases in a low-resource setting in West Africa...

..To examine the association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration, dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium, and the risk of colorectal cancer in European populations...

..However, there are few recent descriptive reports on the epidemiology of breast cancer among Eastern and Southeastern Asian populations...

..We examined the risk of dying from any cause in subjects who participated in randomized trials testing the impact of vitamin D supplementation (ergocalciferol [vitamin D(2)] or cholecalciferol [vitamin D(3)]) on any health condition...

..Although there has been an active sun protection programme in Northern Ireland since 1990, the reason for the changes in female mortality which predates the programme remains to be fully understood...

..We reviewed the epidemiological evidence that UVA could be involved in the genesis of cutaneous melanoma...

..The study shows that, even using the hypothesis most favourable to prostate cancer screening with PSA, the net number of years of life does not favour screening...

..In conclusion, sunscreen use leads to longer duration of sun exposure when sun exposure is intentional, but not when sun exposure is non intentional...

..Plasma phospholipid fatty acids have been correlated with food intakes in populations with homogeneous dietary patterns. However, few data are available on populations with heterogeneous dietary patterns...