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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
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Overview

Cristina Bosetti is affiliated with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Italy. Their research contributions primarily span the field of Medicine, with a focus on Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Physiology. Over the course of their career, Bosetti has published extensively, with 152 works in Medicine, including 26 in Oncology and 23 in Public Health-related fields.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Nutritional Studies and Diet, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Health disparities and outcomes, and Cancer survivorship and care.

Frequent co-authors in Bosetti's published research include Silvano Gallus, Carlo La Vecchia, Claudia Santucci, Alessandra Lugo, and Anna Odone. Collaboration with these scholars has contributed to a substantial body of joint work.

Major publication venues where Bosetti's work appears include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), UNC Libraries, Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Cancer Prevention, and Annals of Oncology. These venues reflect a focus on epidemiological and oncological research as well as contributions to cancer prevention literature.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Bosetti include:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of hepatitis B, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2022), The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
  • The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020), The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology
  • Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020 (2022), The Lancet
  • Progress in cancer mortality, incidence, and survival: a global overview (2020), European Journal of Cancer Prevention
  • Smoking and Colorectal Cancer Risk, Overall and by Molecular Subtypes: A Meta-Analysis (2020), The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, andyears lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematicanalysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gbd Disease;Injury Incidence;Lorenzo Monasta

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Degu Abate;Naghmeh Abbasi;Hedayat Abbastabar

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Role of parity and human papillomavirus in cervical cancer: the IARC multicentric case-control study.

    Nubia Muñoz;Silvia Franceschi;Cristina Bosetti;Victor Moreno

  • Thyroid cancer mortality and incidence: A global overview

    Carlo La Vecchia;Matteo Malvezzi;Cristina Bosetti;Werner Garavello

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • The global, regional, and national burden of colorectal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Farin Kamangar;Dariush Nasrollahzadeh;Saeid Safiri;Sadaf G Sepanlou

  • Worldwide trends in gastric cancer mortality (1980–2011), with predictions to 2015, and incidence by subtype

    Ana Ferro;Bárbara Peleteiro;Matteo Malvezzi;Cristina Bosetti

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma epidemiology

    Cristina Bosetti;Federica Turati;Carlo La Vecchia

  • Herpes Simplex Virus-2 as a Human Papillomavirus Cofactor in the Etiology of Invasive Cervical Cancer

    Jennifer S. Smith;Rolando Herrero;Cristina Bosetti;Nubia Muñoz

  • Cancer mortality in Europe, 2000–2004, and an overview of trends since 1975

    C. La Vecchia;C. La Vecchia;C. Bosetti;F. Lucchini;P. Bertuccio

  • Cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer: an analysis from the International Pancreatic Cancer Case-Control Consortium (Panc4)

    C. Bosetti;C. Bosetti;E. Lucenteforte;E. Lucenteforte;E. Lucenteforte;D. T. Silverman;G. Petersen

  • Estimates of benefits and harms of prophylactic use of aspirin in the general population

    Jack Cuzick;M. A. Thorat;C. Bosetti;P. H. Brown

  • Combined effect of tobacco and alcohol on laryngeal cancer risk: A case-control study

    R. Talamini;C. Bosetti;C. La Vecchia;C. La Vecchia;L. Dal Maso

  • Occupational exposures to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and respiratory and urinary tract cancers: a quantitative review to 2005

    C. Bosetti;P. Boffetta;C. La Vecchia

  • Cancer mortality in Europe, 2005–2009, and an overview of trends since 1980

    C. Bosetti;P. Bertuccio;P. Bertuccio;M. Malvezzi;M. Malvezzi;F. Levi

  • Chlamydia trachomatis and invasive cervical cancer: a pooled analysis of the IARC multicentric case-control study

    Jennifer S. Smith;Cristina Bosetti;Nubia Muñoz;Rolando Herrero

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo La Vecchia
Carlo La Vecchia University of Milan
Eva Negri
Eva Negri University of Bologna
Silvia Franceschi
Silvia Franceschi Centro di Riferimento Oncologico
Silvano Gallus
Silvano Gallus Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Renato Talamini
Renato Talamini Centro di Riferimento Oncologico
Maurizio Montella
Maurizio Montella Regione Campania
Diego Serraino
Diego Serraino University of Oxford
Alessandra Tavani
Alessandra Tavani Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Fabio Levi
Fabio Levi University Hospital of Lausanne
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine

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