Pierluigi Cocco

Professore Associato

SSD: MED/44 Medicina del Lavoro

Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica

Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro

Università di Cagliari

Asse Didattico - Policlinico Universitario

SS 554, km 4,500

09042 Monserrato
Tel: +39 070 6754438Fax: +39 070 6754728
E-mail: coccop(at)medicina.unica.it 

ATTIVITA’ ASSISTENZIALE

Medicina del Lavoro (reparto degenze, ambulatorio esterni convenzionato SSN del Policlinico Universitario, sorveglianza sanitaria dei lavoratori di aziende convenzionate con il Policlinico Universitario)
Laboratorio di diagnostica dei Tumori Professionali

ATTIVITA' DI RICERCA

Epidemiologia dei Tumori negli ambienti di lavoroEpidemiologia ambientaleEpidemiologia molecolareInterazioni geni-ambiente Tossicologia industrialeDisruttori endocrini ambientali ed occupazionaliPrevenzione degli infortuni sul lavoro.   

ELENCO DELLE 10 PUBBLICAZIONI CARATTERIZZANTI

1. Cocco P, Rice CH, Chen J-Q, McCawley MA, McLaughlin JK, Dosemeci M. Lung cancer risk, silica exposure, and silicosis in Chinese mines and pottery factories: the modifying role of other workplace lung carcinogens. Am J Ind Med 2001;40:674-82.

2. Cocco P, Fadda D, Billai B, D’Atri M, Melis M, Blair A. Cancer mortality among men occupationally exposed to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Cancer Res 2005;65:9588-9594

3. Cocco P, Fadda D, Melis M. Reproductive outcomes following environmental exposure to DDT. Reproduct Toxicol 2006: 22:5-7.

4.  Rothman N, Skibola CF, Wang SS, Morgan G, Lan Q, Smith MT, Spinelli JJ, Willett E, De Sanjose S, Cocco P, Berndt SI, Brennan P, Brooks-Wilson A, Wacholder S, Becker N, Hartge P, Zheng T, Roman E, Holly EA, Boffetta P, Armstrong B, Cozen W, Linet M, Bosch FX, Ennas MG, Holford TR, Gallagher RP, Rollinson S, Bracci PM, Cerhan JR, Whitby D, Moore PS, Leaderer B, Lai A, Spink C, Davis S, Bosch R, Scarpa A, Zhang Y, Severson RK, Yeager-Jeffery M, Chanock S, Nieters A. Genetic variation in TNF and IL10 and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma:  a report from the InterLymph Consortium. Lancet Oncology 2006:7:27-38.

5. Cocco P, Moore PS,  Ennas MG, Tocco MG, Ibba A, Mattuzzi S, Meloni M, Monne M, Piras G, Collu S, Satta G, Zucca M, Scarpa A, and Flore C. Effect of urban traffic, individual habits, and genetic polymorphisms on background urinary 1-hydroxypyrene excretion. Ann Epidemiol 2007;17:1-8.

6. Cocco P, Fadda D, Atzeri S, Avataneo G, Meloni M,  Flore C. Causes of death among lead smelters in relation to the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphism. Occup Environ Med 2007;64:414-6.7.  
 
7. Cocco P, Dosemeci M, Rice C. Lung cancer among silica-exposed workers: the quest for Truth between chance and necessity. Med Lav 2007; 68:3-17.8.     

8. Cocco P,  Brennan P, Ibba A, de Sanjosè Llongueras S, Maynadié M, Nieters A, Becker N, Ennas MG, Tocco MG, Boffetta P. Plasma polychlorobiphenyl and organochlorine pesticide level and risk of major lymphoma subtypes. Occup Environ Med 2008;65:132-40.

9. Cocco P, Fadda D, Schwartz AG. Subjects expressing the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient phenotype experience a lower cardiovascular mortality. QJM. 2008;101:161-3.

10. Ennas MG, Moore PS,  Zucca M, Angelucci E, Cabras MG, Melis M, Gabbas A,  Serpe R,  Madeddu C, Scarpa A, and Cocco P. Interleukin-1B (IL1B) and interleukin-6 (IL6) gene polymorphisms are associated with risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Hematol Oncol 2008;26:98-103.