Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Research. Prevention. Community.

Paola Muti, MD, MSc
Research Professor
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
muti@buffalo.edu

Education:

MD, University Degree, State University in PISA, Medicine and Surgery, 1984
MS, Epidemiology, University at Buffalo, 1992

Profile:
Professor Muti is a member of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine since 1994. Her major research focus is cancer epidemiology. She is a member of the “Cancer Cube”, a National Cancer Institute established group on hormonal carcinogenesis.

Research Interests:
My research objectives focus on the etiology and prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases and epidemiological methods to be applied on studies on biomarkers.

Selected Publications:

  • Berrino F, Muti P, Micheli A, Bolelli GF, Krogh V, Sciajno R, Pisani P, Panico S, Secreto G. Serum sex steroid levels after menopause and subsequent breast cancer. J Nat Cancer Inst 88:291-296, 1996.
  • Muti P , Trevisan M, Micheli A, Krogh V, Bolelli GF, Sciajno R, Berrino F. Alcohol consumption and total estradiol in replicated measures over a year in premenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 7:189-193, 1998.
  • Muti P , Trevisan M, Micheli A, Krogh V, Bolelli GF, Sciajno R, Berrino F. Alcohol consumption and total estradiol in replicated measures over a year in premenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 7:189-193, 1998.
  • Muti P , Micheli A, Krogh V, Freudenheim JL, Yang J, Imamura D, Schünemann HJ, Trevisan M, Berrino F. Estrogen metabolism and breast cancer risk. Epidemiology 11:635-640, 2000.
  • Muti P , Stanulla M*, Micheli A, Krogh V, Freudenheim JL, Yang J, Schünemann HJ, Trevisan M, Berrino F. Markers of Insulin resistance and sex steroid activity in relation to breast cancer: a prospective analysis of abdominal adiposity, sebum production and hirsutism. Cancer Causes Control 11:721-730, 2000
  • Muti P , Quattrin T, Grant B, Krogh V, Micheli A, Ram M, Freudenheim JL, Schünemann HJ, Sieri, S, Trevisan M, Berrino F. Fasting glucose, insulin and Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF)-I Pattern in relation to breast cancer risk: A Prospective Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 11: 1361-136, 2002.
  • Muti P , Westerling, K Wu TJ, Grimaldi T, Hill, H De Barry III J, Freudenheim JL, Schünemann HJ Carruba G, Bradlow L Urinary Estrogen Metabolites and Prostate Cancer: A Case-Control study. Cancer Cause Control 13: 947-955, 2002.
  • Muti P. Biological Specimen Banks: Epidemiological tools and scientific enterprises. Epidemiologia e Prevenzione 7:121-5, 2003.
  • Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer Collaborative Group#. Validity of the calculation of free and non-SHBG bound estradiol and testosterone fractions in postmenopausal women and their use in breast cancer risk analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 12:1457-1461, 2003.

Professional Affiliations:
American Association for Cancer Research, American College of Epidemiology

Faculty Links:

Top of Page ]