Maria Paula Curado
International Agency for Research on Cancer
253 Papers
1K Citations
Maria Paula Curado is an academic researcher from International Agency for Research on Cancer. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 190 publications. Previous affiliations of Maria Paula Curado include National Institutes of Health & Palacký University, Olomouc.
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Papers
Alcohol and tobacco, and the risk of cancers of the upper aerodigestive tract in Latin America: a case-control study.
Katarzyna Szymańska,Rayjean Hung,Rayjean Hung,V. Wünsch-Filho,José Eluf-Neto,Maria Paula Curado,Sergio Koifman,Elena Matos,Ana M. B. Menezes,Leticia Fernandez,Alexander W. Daudt,Paolo Boffetta,Paolo Boffetta,Paul Brennan +13 more
TL;DR: It is shown for the first time that a prevailing majority of UADT cancer cases is due to a combined effect of alcohol and tobacco use and could be prevented by quitting the use of either of these two agents.
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Marijuana Smoking and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the INHANCE Consortium
Julien Berthiller,Yuan Chin Amy Lee,Paolo Boffetta,Qingyi Wei,Erich M. Sturgis,Sander Greenland,Hal Morgenstern,Zuo-Feng Zhang,Philip Lazarus,Joshua E. Muscat,Chu Chen,Stephen M. Schwartz,José Eluf Neto,Victor Wünsch Filho,Sergio Koifman,Maria Paula Curado,Elena Matos,Leticia Fernandez,Ana M. B. Menezes,Alexander W. Daudt,Gilles Ferro,Paul Brennan,Mia Hashibe +22 more
TL;DR: The results are consistent with the notion that infrequent marijuana smoking does not confer a risk of these malignancies, particularly among subgroups without exposure to tobacco and alcohol.
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Trends in cancer mortality in Brazil, 1980-2004.
Liliane Chatenoud,Paola Bertuccio,Cristina Bosetti,Fabio Levi,Maria Paula Curado,Matteo Malvezzi,Eva Negri,Carlo La Vecchia +7 more
TL;DR: The key issues of cancer mortality in Brazil are the high rates of head and neck cancers in men and (cervix) uterine cancer in women, that is, in principle cancers that are largely avoidable through prevention, screening, and early diagnosis.
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Disparities in female breast cancer mortality rates between urban centers and rural areas of Brazil: ecological time-series study.
Carolina Maciel Reis Gonzaga,Ruffo Freitas-Junior,Marta Rovery de Souza,Maria Paula Curado,Nilceana Maya Aires Freitas +4 more
TL;DR: Disparities in breast cancer mortality were found across the country, with increasing trends occurring predominantly in the north and northeastern regions.
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[Childhood cancer: a comparative analysis of incidence, mortality, and survival in Goiania (Brazil) and other countries].
TL;DR: It is concluded that even though increasing or stable childhood cancer incidence rates and decreasing mortality rates have been observed in developed countries, the trends remain unknown in developing countries.