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Environmental exposure to xenoestrogens and oestrogen related cancers: reproductive system, breast, lung, kidney, pancreas, and brain

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, June 2012
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Title
Environmental exposure to xenoestrogens and oestrogen related cancers: reproductive system, breast, lung, kidney, pancreas, and brain
Published in
Environmental Health, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1476-069x-11-s1-s8
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Authors

Aleksandra Fucic, Marija Gamulin, Zeljko Ferencic, Jelena Katic, Martin Krayer von Krauss, Alena Bartonova, Domenico F Merlo

Abstract

The role of steroids in carcinogenesis has become a major concern in environmental protection, biomonitoring, and clinical research. Although historically oestrogen has been related to development of reproductive system, research over the last decade has confirmed its crucial role in the development and homeostasis of other organ systems. As a number of anthropogenic agents are xenoestrogens, environmental health research has focused on oestrogen receptor level disturbances and of aromatase polymorphisms. Oestrogen and xenoestrogens mediate critical points in carcinogenesis by binding to oestrogen receptors, whose distribution is age-, gender-, and tissue-specific. This review brings data about cancer types whose eatiology may be found in environmental exposure to xenoestrogens. Cancer types that have been well documented in literature to be related with environmental exposure include the reproductive system, breast, lung, kidney, pancreas, and brain. The results of our data mining show (a) a significant correlation between exposure to xenoestrogens and increased, gender-related, cancer risk and (b) a need to re-evaluate agents so far defined as endocrine disruptors, as they are also key molecules in carcinogenesis. This revision may be used to further research of cancer aetiology and to improvement of related legislation. Investigation of cancers caused by xenoestrogens may elucidate yet unknown mechanisms also valuable for oncology and the development of new therapies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Unknown 188 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 40 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 13%
Student > Master 24 12%
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Postgraduate 14 7%
Other 36 19%
Unknown 34 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 42 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 26 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 10%
Environmental Science 8 4%
Other 31 16%
Unknown 40 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 May 2023.
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#859,755
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Outputs from Environmental Health
#205
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Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#3
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