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Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

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疫学・予防医学講座スタッフ

Graduate School Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Course Health Research Course
Field Human and Environmental Sciences
Department Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Homepage http://www.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/~p-health/

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TEL.+81-99-275-5298 / FAX.+81-99-275-5299

Research interests

  • Environmental epidemiology on heavy metals, radiation and volcanic activity
  • Cancer epidemiology
  • Community health, occupational health and preventive medicine
  • Epidemiology of virus related cancer

Staff

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Professor
Name Suminori AKIBA
Specialized field public health、Epidemiology
Research interests
  • environmental epidemiology
  • cancer epidemiology

Researcher Repository

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Associate Professor
Name Chihaya KORIYAMA
Specialized field public health、Epidemiology
Research interests
  • cancer epidemiology
  • environmental epidemiology

Researcher Repository

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Assistant Professor
Name Futoshi UWATOKO
Specialized field public health、Epidemiology
Research interests
  • Community health
  • preventive medicine

Researcher Repository

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Assistant Professor
Name Jayalekshmi Nandakumar Athira
Specialized field Epidemiology
Research interests
  • cancer epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of virus related cancer

Researcher Repository

Research results

Suminori AKIBA
  1. Kamiya K, Ozasa K, Akiba S, Niwa O, Kodama K, Takamura N, Zaharieva EK, Kimura Y, Wakeford R. Long-term effects of radiation exposure on health. Lancet. 2015 Aug 1;386(9992):469-78. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61167-9. Review. PMID: 26251392
  2. Akiba S, Mizuno S. The third analysis of cancer mortality among Japanese nuclear workers, 1991-2002: estimation of excess relative risk per radiation dose. J Radiol Prot. 2012 Mar;32(1):73-83.
  3. Sato Y, Akiba S, Kubo O, Yamaguchi N. A case-case study of mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk in Japan. Bioelectromagnetics 2011;32(2):85-93.
  4. Jayalekshmi PA, Gangadharan P, Akiba S, Nair RR, Tsuji M, Rajan B. Tobacco chewing and female oral cavity cancer risk in Karunagappally cohort, India. Br J Cancer. 2009;100(5):848-52.
  5. Jayalekshmy PA, Akiba S, Nair MK, Gangadharan P, Rajan B, Nair RK, Sugahara T. Bidi smoking and lung cancer incidence among males in Karunagappally cohort in Kerala, India. Int J Cancer 2008;123(6):1390-7.
  6. Akiba S, Koriyama C, Herrera-Goepfert R, Eizuru Y. Epstein-Barr virus associated gastric carcinoma: epidemiological and clinicopathological features. Cancer Sci. 2008;99(2):195-201.
  7. Takebayashi T, Akiba S, Kikuchi Y, Taki M, Wake K, Watanabe S, Yamaguchi N. Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma risk in Japan. Occup Environ Med 2006;63(12):802-7.
Chihaya KORIYAMA
  1. Koriyama C, Akiba S, Shimaoka S, Itoh T, Akiyama S, Eizuru Y. Frequent expression of thymidine phosphorylase in Epstein-Barr virus-associated gastric carcinoma of diffuse-type. Anticancer Research, 30: 2431-2438, 2010.
  2. Nomiyama K, Yonehara T, Yonemura S, Yamamoto M, Koriyama C, Akiba S, Shinohara R, Koga M. Determination and characterization of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) in serum and adipose tissue of Japanese women diagnosed with breast cancer. Environmental Science and Technology, 44(8): 2890-2896, 2010.
  3. Camargo MC, Murphy G, Koriyama C, Pfeiffer RM, Kim WH, Herrera-Goepfert R, Corvalan AH, Carrascal E, Abdirad A, Anwar M, Hao Z, Kattoor J, Yoshiwara-Wakabayashi E, Eizuru Y, Rabkin CS, Akiba S. Determinants of Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric cancer: an international pooled analysis. Br J Cancer. 2011 Jun 7. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2011.215. [Epub ahead of print]
  4. Ordonez P, Koriyama C, Ding S, Yoshiwara E, Corvalan AH, Takano J, Chirinos JL, Watanabe J, Miyagui J, Hidalgo H, Chacon P, Linares V, Eizuru Y, Akiba S. Identification of The Distinctive Type i/XhoI+ Strain of Epstein-Barr Virus in Gastric Carcinoma in Peru. Anticancer Research, 31(10): 3607-3613, 2011
  5. Castillo A, Koriyama C, Higashi M, Anwar M, Bukhari MH, Carrascal E, Mancilla L, Okumura H, Matsumoto M, Sugihara K, Natsugoe S, Eizuru Y, Akiba S. Human papillomavirus in tumors of the upper digestive tract from three countries. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 17(48):5295-5304, 2011.
  6. Higuchi K, Koriyama C, Akiba S. Increased mortality of respiratory diseases, including lung cancer, in the area with large amount of ashfall from mount sakurajima volcano. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2012;2012:257831. Epub 2012 Mar 27.
  7. Kato T, Koriyama C, Khan N, Samukawa T, Yanagi M, Hamada T, Yokomakura N, Otsuka T, Inoue H, Sato M, Natsugoe S, Akiba S. EGFR mutations and human papillomavirus in lung cancer. Lung Cancer, 78(2):144-147, 2012.
  8. Do HTT, Koriyama C, Khan NA, Higashi M, Kato T, Le NT, Matsushita S, Kanekura T, Akiba S. The etiologic role of human papillomavirus in penile cancers – a study in Vietnam. British Journal of Cancer, 108(1): 229-233, 2013.
  9. Camargo MC, Koriyama C, Matsuo K, Kim WH, Herrera-Goepfert R, Liao LM, the Eurgast-EPIC Group, Yu J, Carrasquilla G, Sung JJY, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Lissowska J, Meneses-Gonzalez F, Yatabe Y, Ding T, Hu N, Taylor PR, Morgan DR, Gulley ML, Torres J, Akiba S, Rabkin CS. Case-case comparison of smoking and alcohol risk associations with Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric cancer. Int J Cancer 2013 Jul 31. Doi: 10.1002/ijc.28402.
  10. Ghani S, Khan N, Koriyama C, Akiba S, Yamamoto M. N-acetyl-L-cysteine prevents arsenite-induced cytotoxicity mainly through chelation in U937 monocytes and macrophages. Molecular Medicine Reports, 10(6): 2961-2966, 2014.
  11. Muniroh M, Khan N, Koriyama C, Akiba S, Vogel CF, Yamamoto M. Suppression of methylmercury-induced IL-6 and MCP-1 expressions by N-acetylcysteine in U-87MG human astrocytoma cells. Life Sci May 22. pii:S0024-3205(15)00277-5. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2015.04024. [Epub ahead of print].
Futoshi UWATOKO
  1. David J, Ando T, Fujiyama R, Uwatoko F, Akiba S, Koriyama C. Serum docosahexaenoic acid and cognitive impairment of Japanese residents in a remote island. Medical Journal of Kagoshima University, 67(1): 1-10, 2015.
  2. Akiba S, Nandakumar A, Uwatoko F. Social and Health Effects of Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Residents and Evacuees. pp.91-106. Biological Responses, Monitoring and Protection from Radiation Exposure (KP Mishra, ed.) Nova Publishers, New York, 2015.
Jayalekshmi Nandakumar Athira
  1. Jayalekshmi PA, Nandakumar A, Akiba S, Gangadharan P, Koriyama C. Associations of tobacco use and alcohol drinking with laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer risks among men in Karunagappally, Kerala, India -Karunagappally cohort study. ProS One 2013 Aug 28;8(8):e73716. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073716. PMID: 24015309.
  2. Jayalekshmi PA, Hassani S, Nandakumar A, Koriyama C, Sebastian P, Akiba A. Gastric cancer risk in relation to tobacco use and alcohol drinking in Kerala, India -- Karunagappally Cohort Study. World J Gastroenterol. 2015 (in press)

For production study

Suminori AKIBA、Chihaya KORIYAMA、Futoshi UWATOKO
  1. 緑茶飲用介入による生活習慣病関連バイオマーカーの変化に関する研究 （志布志市）
  2. 緑茶飲用介入による生活習慣病関連バイオマーカーの変化に関する研究 （南九州市）

Research Grant List

Project・Event / SpanResearch
Suminori AKIBA
科学研究費 基盤研究（C）
平成25年度～平成27年度　		 中国四川省の宇宙線レベルが高い地域に住むチベット系住民の疫学調査
Chihaya KORIYAMA
科学研究費 基盤研究（C）
平成25年度～平成27年度　		 喫煙と乳がんリスクにおける宿主要因との相互作用：閉経の有無別による検討
Futoshi UWATOKO
科学研究費 基盤研究（挑戦萌芽）
平成26年度～平成28年度		 母子保健および少子化対策は、いかなるソーシャルキャピタルを活用すべきか
Suminori AKIBA
原子力災害影響調査等事業（放射線の健康影響に係る研究調査事業）　
平成27年度～平成29年度		 小児・青年期の低線量率放射線被ばくによるがんリスクの評価――インドケララ州の高自然放射線地域住民の調査結果を中心として
Chihaya KORIYAMA（分担）
労災疾病臨床研究事業
平成26年度～平成28年度		 化学物質特異的IgGのアレルギー診断と曝露モニタリングへの有用性に関する調査
Chihaya KORIYAMA（分担）
日本医療研究開発機構
平成27年度～平成29年度		 個人の生活習慣等の環境要因と遺伝的リスクを考慮した科学的根拠に基づく効率的な乳がん予防法の開発研究

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