The Second International Symposium On Medical Geology, Nutrition, And Cancer
INDEXMONDAY, MARCH 31, 200311:00 - 17:00 Registration 17:00 - 19:00 Cocktail & Opening Ceremony TUESDAY, APRIL 1,2003 Salon A Session Chair : A. Ümran Doğan 09:30 - 10:00 OPENINGS & PLENARY LECTURE-I:CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY IN TURKEY Murat Tuncer 10:00 - 10:30 PLENARY LECTURE-II: MESOTHELIOMA İN CAPPADOCIA Y. izzettin Baris 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12 :00 CONFERENCE-I: MESOTHELIOMA A New Model of Virus-Asbestos Carcinogenesis of Malignant Mesothelioma (MM): Does it Promise Novel Therapies? Luciano Mutti Salon B Session Chair : Semra Sardaş 11:00 - 12 :00 SESSION-I: MOLECULAR CARCİNOGENESİS 11:00 - 11:20 Molecular Mechanisms in Lung Cancers Wayne E. Criss 11:20 - 11:40 Mutagenic Actions of Nitrogen Oxides Kamer Kiline 11:40 - 12:00 Possible Role of Arşenic Sülfür in Deficits of Contractile and Relaxant Responses in Urinary Bladder Serap Gür. Meral Doğan, A. Ümran Doğan, S. Tuna Karahan, Gaye Hafez 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION-I Dietary Vitamin C and Folk Acid Supplementation Ameliorates the Detrimental Effects of Heat Stress in Japanese Quail K. Şahin. M. Önderci, N. Safı/n, B. F. Gursu, O. Kucuk Study of Serum Lipid Profiles in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Referred to Immam Hospital, Tabriz, Iran Rezo Razzaghi, A. R. Nourazarian, M. Rahbani, M. Nourazarian The Pattern of Expression of the Apoptofic Inducer Fas and the Apoptotic Inhibitor BcI-2 Oncogenes Immunohistochemicaly in Bone-Marrow Invaded by the Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas Mona M. Rashed Functional Foods: New Trend about Foods on the World Esra Güneş, Y. Serinturk Salon A 13:30-14:30 CONFERENCE-II: SMOKING CESSATION Smoking Cessation Karl Fagershom Salon B Session Chair : Luciano Mutti 13.30-14:30 SESSION-II: OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY 13:30 - 13:50 Genotoxicity Tests and Their Use in Occupational Toxicology as Biomarken Semra Serdas 13:50 - 14:10 Applications Concerning Risk Groups and Occupational Toxicology A. Gürhan Fisek 14:10- 14:30 Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, Upper Urinary Tract Tumors and Environmental Organic Compounds: Is There a Link? Colin A. Tatu, William H. Orem, Harry E. Lerch, Nikola Pavlovic, Grigore Buia, Diana N.Szilagyi, Virgil Paunescu How hazardous are ionic liquids? Structure-Activity Relationships and Biological Testing as Important Elements for Sustainability Evaluation Bernd Jastorff, Reinhold Stormann, Johannes Ranke, Kerstin Molter, Frauke Stock, Boris Oberheitmann. Wolfgang Hoffmann, Juliane Filsera 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break Salon A 15:00 - 1 7:00 PANEL-I: SMOKING Elif Dağlı - Introduction Epidemiology of Smoking Among Turkish Adults: A National Household Survey, 2002 Solih Emri, Sevil Basoglu, Husrev Turnagöl, Sevil Bacanli, Murat Tuncer Global Responses to Global Problems: How Doctors and NGO's Can Contribute to the Tobacco Control Movement Belinda Hughes Salon B 15:00-17:00 PANEL-II: TOXICOLOGY Significance of Exposure Assessment Imprecision in Environmental Epidemiology Philippe Grandjean, Jorgensen E. Budtz Wayne Criss Semra Sardas Salon A 17:00 - 19:00 SHORT COURSE-I: MESOTHELIOMA Y. Izzettin Boris Hadi Akay Salih Emri WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2003 Session Chair : Wayne E. Criss 09:30-10:00 PLENARY LECTURE-MI: MESOTHELIOMA AND GENETICS Michele Carbone 10:00 - 10:30 PLENARY LECTURE-IV: MEDICAL GEOLOGY A. Umran Dogan 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12 :00 CONFERENCE-III: NUTRITION Micronutrients and Cancer Ayhan Çavdar Session Chair : Meral Dogan 11:00 - 12:00 SESSION-HI: MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN CHINA 11:00 - 11:20 On Cause and Control of Kashin-Beck Disease in Relation to Selenium Tan Jian'an 11:20 - 11:40 Relationship Between the Fluorine Content and Distribution in Chinese Coals and the Fluorosis Luo Kunli, Ton Jian'an, Xu Liring 11:40 - 12:00 Exchange and Equilibrium of Life Elements in Geoecosystem and Their Effects on Health: A New Direction in Relation of Environment to Human Tan J/on'on, Wang Wuyi, Luo Kunli 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION-II Characterization of Asbestos Group Minerals Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, Energy Dispersive X-Ray Microanalysis, and Powder X-Ray Diffraction Dogan Alaygut, Ekmel Uygur, Abdullah Oner, Meral Dogan, A. Umran Dogan Crystal Structures of Riebeckite Type Asbestos Minerals Irem Yesilyurt, Meral Dogan, A. Umran Dogan Crystal Structures of Serpentine Group Minerals from Konya and Ankara Melange, Central Anatolia, Turkey Meral Doaon, A. Umran Dogan, Gokce Gurtekin Crystal Structures of Tremolite, Acfinolite, and Ferro-actinolite Types of Amphibole Group Asbestos Minerals A. Umran Doaan, Meral Dogan, Mustafa Ozerler, Tayfun Kaltali, F.İrem Yesilyurt, Serhat Ozbaoy, Zafer Dogruel, Oguz Unsal, Gokce Ustunısık, Onur Conger, Bahar Serbest Salon A 13:30 - 14:30 PANEL-III: NUTRITION AND MINERAL WATERS Contribution of Natural Waters to Human Nutrition Zeki Karagülle Safety of Bottled Mineral Waters Arif Dönmez Health Effects of Mineral Waters Mine Karagulle Salon B Session Chair : Y. Izzettin Barış 13:30-14:30 SESSION-IV: ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY 13:30 - 13:50 Arsenic Minerals in the Karstik Aquifers and Their Contamination Mechanism in Emet, Kütahya, Turkey Meral Dogan, A. Umran Dogan 13:50 - 14:10 Types of Arsenic Exposures and Health Effects Y. Izzettin Barış 14:10 - 14:30 Tribromomethane-CHBr3 "Bromoform" Used in Heavy Mineral Separation and Its Toxicity Mustafa Ergin, Meral Dogan, A. Umran Dogan Apatite, the Most Important Mineral in the Health of Humans H. Catherine W. Skinner 14:30-15:00 Coffee Break Salon A 15:00 - 17:00 CONFERENCE-IV: CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL Primary Care Physicians' Perceived Barriers to Cancer Prevention and Control Ernosto Kahan, Khamis EI-Najjr Salon B 15:00 - 1 7:00 PANEL-IV: RADIATION Observations on the Effects of Some Radioactive Geochemical Regions on Human Health Önder Öztunali The Effects of Radiation on Human Chromosomes and Applications of Biological Dosimetry in Turkey Deniz Dalcı Radiation Technology and Health Yilmaz Erkol Salon A 17:00 - 19:00 SHORT COURSE-II: ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY Meral Dogan A. Umran Dogan Y. Izzettin Boris THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2003 Salon A Session Chair :Salih Emri 09:30 - 10:30 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM: OBESITY AND CANCER 09:30 - 09:50 What Links Obesity to Cancer? - Part-1 Volkan Yumuk 09:50 -10:10 What Links Obesity to Cancer? - Part-11 Michael A. Kirschner. N. Ertel, G. Schneider 10:10-10:30 What Links Obesity to Cancer? - Part-Ill Alicia Wolk, G. Gridley, M. Svensson, O. Nyren, J. K. McLaughlin, J. F. Fraumeni, H. O. Adam 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 PANEL-V: BONE MORROW TRANSPLANTATION AND DIET Low - Microbial Diet and Bone Morrow Transplantation: Introduction Sevil Basoglu, Hüsrev Turnagöl Low - Microbial Diet and Bone Morrow Transplantation: Part-1 Evrim Turkmen Low - Microbial Diet and Bone Morrow Transplantation: Part-II Eme/ Damarli Salon B 11:00 - 12:00 CONFERENCE-V: INDOOR AIR POLLUTION Health Impact of Polluted Air John A. Hoskins 12:00-13:30 Lunch Salon A 13:30 - 14:30 CONFERENCE-VI: CANCER SCREENING Cancer Screening Faruk Zorlu Cervical Cancer Screening Z. Selçuk Tuncer Prostate Cancer Screening Mustafa Cengiz Breast Cancer Screening Metin Çakmakçı Salon B 13:30 - 14:30 CONFERENCE-VII: OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION Climatology of Dust Sources in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Based on TOMS Data J. Barkcan, Haim Kutiel. P. Alpert 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break Salon A 15:00 - 1 7:00 CONFERENCE-VIII: UV AND SKIN CANCER UV Light and Carcinogenesis Fuat H. Demirelli Salon B 15:00 - 17:00 PANEL-VI: AIR POLLUTION The Effect of Meteorological and Pollution Parameters on the Frequency of Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Problems in Athens, Greece Aristides Bartzokas. P. A. Kassomenos, John Hoskins, Haim Kutiel
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