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Anssi Auvinen

Anssi Auvinen

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Medicine

D-Index
110
Citations
50785
World Ranking
5504
National Ranking
63

Overview

Anssi Auvinen is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and has a research focus primarily situated within the broad field of Medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Genetics, and Surgery.

Their main topics of research revolve around cancer treatment and diagnosis, with a particular emphasis on prostate cancer. Key areas include:

  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Anssi Auvinen has contributed to multiple scholarly papers, notable examples being:

  • Prostate Cancer Screening With PSA, Kallikrein Panel, and MRI, 2024, JAMA
  • Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Prostate cancer risk prediction using a polygenic risk score, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Long-term effect of mobile phone use on sleep quality: Results from the cohort study of mobile phone use and health (COSMOS), 2020, Environment International

The venues where Auvinen has frequently published include:

  • European Urology Open Science
  • International Journal of Cancer
  • European Urology
  • Environment International
  • Acta Oncologica

They have collaborated frequently with a range of coauthors, including:

  • Teuvo L.J. Tammela
  • Kirsi Talala
  • Kimmo Taari
  • Jani Raitanen
  • Teemu J. Murtola

Best Publications

  • Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomized European Study

    Fritz H. Schröder;Jonas Hugosson;Monique J. Roobol;Stefano Ciatto

  • Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies.

    S. Darby;D. Hill;A. Auvinen;J. M. Barros-Dios

  • Screening and prostate cancer mortality: results of the European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) at 13 years of follow-up

    Fritz H Schröder;Jonas Hugosson;Monique J Roobol;Teuvo L J Tammela

  • Prostate-Cancer Mortality at 11 Years of Follow-up

    Fritz H. Schröder;Jonas Hugosson;Monique J. Roobol;Stefano Ciatto

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • The 15-Country Collaborative Study of Cancer Risk among Radiation Workers in the Nuclear Industry: Estimates of Radiation-Related Cancer Risks

    E. Cardis;M. Vrijheid;M. Blettner;E. Gilbert

  • Risk of cancer after low doses of ionising radiation: retrospective cohort study in 15 countries

    E. Cardis;M. Vrijheid;M. Blettner;E. Gilbert

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • Prevalence of symptoms among patients with advanced cancer: An international collaborative study

    Anneli Vainio;Anssi Auvinen

  • An association of serum vitamin D concentrations < 40 nmol/L with acute respiratory tract infection in young Finnish men

    Ilkka Laaksi;Juha-Petri Ruohola;Pentti Tuohimaa;Anssi Auvinen

  • A 16-yr Follow-up of the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer

    Jonas Hugosson;Monique J. Roobol;Marianne Månsson;Teuvo L.J. Tammela

  • A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

    Ali Amin Al Olama;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Sonja I. Berndt;David V. Conti

  • Quality-of-life effects of prostate-specific antigen screening.

    Eveline A M Heijnsdijk;Elisabeth M Wever;Anssi Auvinen;Jonas Hugosson

  • Renal effects of uranium in drinking water.

    Päivi Kurttio;Anssi Auvinen;Laina Salonen;Heikki Saha

  • Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Ali Amin Al Olama;Graham G. Giles;Graham G. Giles

  • Prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends in 37 European countries: An overview

    F. Bray;J. Lortet-Tieulent;J. Ferlay;D. Forman

  • Incidence of gliomas by anatomic location.

    Suvi Larjavaara;Riitta Mäntylä;Tiina Salminen;Hannu Haapasalo

  • Antiepileptic drug use of women with epilepsy and congenital malformations in offspring.

    M. Artama;A. Auvinen;T. Raudaskoski;I. Isojärvi

  • Nocturia Frequency, Bother, and Quality of Life: How Often Is Too Often? A Population-Based Study in Finland

    Kari A.O. Tikkinen;Theodore M. Johnson;Teuvo L.J. Tammela;Harri Sintonen

  • Residential radon and lung cancer – detailed results of a collaborative analysis of individual data on 7148 persons with lung cancer and 14 208 persons without lung cancer from 13 epidemiologic studies in Europe

    Sarah Darby;David Hill;Harz Deo;Anssi Auvinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Teuvo L.J. Tammela
Teuvo L.J. Tammela Tampere University
Matti Hakama
Matti Hakama Finnish Cancer Registry
Christoffer Johansen
Christoffer Johansen Copenhagen University Hospital
Ulf-Håkan Stenman
Ulf-Håkan Stenman University of Helsinki
Maria Feychting
Maria Feychting Karolinska Institute
Heini Huhtala
Heini Huhtala Tampere University
Johanna Schleutker
Johanna Schleutker Turku University Hospital
Eero Pukkala
Eero Pukkala Tampere University
Kenneth W. Muir
Kenneth W. Muir University of Manchester

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