ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2017
The Cappadocia mesothelioma epidemic: its influence in Turkey and abroad.
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- Diffuse epithelioid malignant mesothelioma of the pleura presenting as a hydropneumothorax and vertebral body invasion.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Circulating Epigenetic Biomarkers in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: State of the Art and critical Evaluation.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Review
- Mesothelioma: Scientific clues for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy.CA: a cancer journal for clinicians · 2019Review
- A case from India of pleural malignant mesothelioma probably due to domestic and environmental asbestos exposure: a posthumous report.BMJ case reports · 2019Article
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- BAP1 regulates different mechanisms of cell death.Cell death & disease · 2018Article
- Consensus report of the 8 and 9th Weinman Symposia on Gene x Environment Interaction in carcinogenesis: novel opportunities for precision medicine.Cell death and differentiation · 2018Review
- A Subset of Mesotheliomas With Improved Survival Occurring in Carriers of BAP1 and Other Germline Mutations.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The epidemic of mesothelioma in Cappadocia, Turkey, is unprecedented in medical history. In three Cappadocian villages, Karain, Tuzkoy and "old" Sarihidir, about 50% of all deaths (including neonatal deaths and traffic fatalities) have been caused by mesothelioma. No other epidemic in medical history has caused such a high incidence of death. This is even more unusual when considering that (I) epidemics are caused by infectious agents, not cancer, and (II) mesothelioma is a rare cancer. World-wide mesothelioma incidence varies between 1/10
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