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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Pagona Lagiou is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. The primary field of study for Lagiou is Medicine, with research covering various subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Oncology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Genetics.

Lagiou's research topics focus on cancer and gastroenterology, specifically:

  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Garlic and Onion Studies

Frequent co-authors in Lagiou's work include:

  • Areti Lagiou (8 collaborations)
  • María Paula Curado (6 collaborations)
  • Carlo La Vecchia (5 collaborations)
  • Wolfgang Ahrens (5 collaborations)
  • Claire M. Healy (5 collaborations)

Lagiou has published multiple papers in notable journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Lessons learned from the INHANCE consortium: An overview of recent results on head and neck cancer," 2020, published in Oral Diseases
  • "Fruits and vegetables intake and gastric cancer risk: A pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling Project," 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • "Allium vegetables intake and the risk of gastric cancer in the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project," 2022, British Journal of Cancer
  • "Tea consumption and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis from the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project consortium," 2022, British Journal of Cancer
  • "Association of physical activity with endothelial dysfunction among adults with and without chronic kidney disease: The Maastricht Study," 2023, Atherosclerosis

The most frequent publication venues for Lagiou include the Health & Research Journal, British Journal of Cancer, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oral Diseases, and the International Journal of Cancer.

Best Publications

  • Diet and overall survival in elderly people

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Antigone Kouris-Blazos;Mark L Wahlqvist;Charalambos Gnardellis

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

    Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

  • Healthy Traditional Mediterranean Diet: an Expression of Culture, History, and Lifestyle

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Pagona Lagiou

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Population-Based, Case-Control Study

    Alicja Wolk;Christos S. Mantzoros;Christos S. Mantzoros;Swen-Olof Andersson;Reinhold Bergström

  • Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Paolo Boffetta;Elisabeth Couto;Janine Wichmann;Janine Wichmann;Pietro Ferrari

  • Cancer and Mediterranean Dietary Traditions

    Antonia Trichopoulou;Pagona Lagiou;Hannah Kuper;Dimitrios Trichopoulos

  • Effect of low doses of ionising radiation in infancy on cognitive function in adulthood: Swedish population based cohort study

    Per Hall;Hans-Olov Adami;Dimitrios Trichopoulos;Nancy L Pedersen

  • Is concordance with World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research guidelines for cancer prevention related to subsequent risk of cancer? : Results from the EPIC study

    Dora Romaguera;Anne Claire Vergnaud;Petra H. Peeters;Petra H. Peeters;Carla H. Van Gils

  • Tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and their interaction in the causation of hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Hannah Kuper;Anastasia Tzonou;Evangelia Kaklamani;Chung-Cheng Hsieh;Chung-Cheng Hsieh

  • Physical activity and all-cause mortality across levels of overall and abdominal adiposity in European men and women: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (EPIC)

    Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Heather A. Ward;Teresa Norat;Jian'an Luan

  • Dietary assessment methods in epidemiological research: current state of the art and future prospects

    Androniki Naska;Areti Lagiou;Pagona Lagiou;Pagona Lagiou

  • Plasma antibodies to oral bacteria and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large European prospective cohort study

    Dominique S. Michaud;Jacques Izard;Charlotte S. Wilhelm-Benartzi;Doo Ho You

  • Evaluation of Human Papillomavirus Antibodies and Risk of Subsequent Head and Neck Cancer

    Aimee R. Kreimer;Mattias Johansson;Tim Waterboer;Rudolf Kaaks

  • Reproductive risk factors and endometrial cancer: the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.

    Laure Dossus;Naomi Allen;Rudolf Kaaks;Kjersti Bakken

  • Dietary Fibre Intake and Risks of Cancers of the Colon and Rectum in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Neil Murphy;Teresa Norat;Pietro Ferrari;Mazda Jenab

  • Mediterranean dietary pattern and cancer risk in the EPIC cohort

    E. Couto;E. Couto;P. Boffetta;P. Boffetta;P. Lagiou;P. Ferrari

  • Fruit and vegetable intake and mortality from ischaemic heart disease: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Heart study

    Francesca L. Crowe;Andrew W. Roddam;Timothy J. Key;Paul N. Appleby

  • Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and risk of gastric adenocarcinoma within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort study

    Genevieve Buckland;Antonio Agudo;Leila Luján;Paula Jakszyn

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Trichopoulos
Dimitrios Trichopoulos Harvard University
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault
Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay
Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge

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