Publications

  1. Foerster M, Zins M, Goldberg M, Ribet C, Kab S, McCarty RD, et al. (2026). Tattoo practices and risk of hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection in the French Constances study. Int J Infect Dis. 163:108288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2025.108288 PMID:41386394

  2. Mo T, Zins M, Goldberg M, Ribet C, Kab S, Schreiver I, et al. (2026). Tattoos and risk of cutaneous melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer in France. J Natl Cancer Inst. 118(3):476–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djaf332 PMID:41259064

  3. Capucetti A, Falivene J, Pizzichetti C, Latino I, Mazzucchelli L, Schacht V, et al. (2025). Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 122(48):e2510392122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510392122 PMID:41289395

  4. Hosseini B, McCarty R, Zins M, Goldberg M, Ribet C, Schreiver I, et al. (2025). Cohort profile: the Cancer Risk Attributable to the Body Art of Tattooing (CRABAT) study. Int J Epidemiol. 54(4):dyaf132. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf132 PMID:40759413

  5. Kochs S, Schiewe S, Foerster M, Hillmann K, Blankenstein C, Meinke MC, et al. (2025). Tat_BioV: tattoo ink exposure and biokinetics of selected tracers in a short-term clinical study of 24 subjects. Arch Toxicol. 99(4):1341–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-025-03959-8 PMID:39888425

  6. Giulbudagian M, Battisini B, Bäumler W, Blass Rico AM, Bocca B, Brungs C, et al. (2024). Lessons learned in a decade: medical-toxicological view of tattooing. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 38(10):1926–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.20072 PMID:38709160

  7. Kochs S, Hauri U, Foerster M, Bäumler W, Schreiver I (2023). Tätowierungen – Neue Erkenntnisse über prähistorische Kunst. Chem Unserer Zeit. 58(2): 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1002/ciuz.202200020

  8. Foerster M, Dufour L, Bäumler W, Schreiver I, Goldberg M, Zins M, Ezzedine K, Schüz J (2023). Development and validation of the Epidemiological Tattoo Assessment Tool to assess ink exposure and related factors in tattooed populations for medical research: cross-sectional validation study. JMIR Form Res. 7:e42158. https://doi.org/10.2196/42158 PMID:36630184

  9. Foerster M, Schreiver I, Luch A, Schüz J (2020). Tattoo inks and cancer. Cancer Epidemiol. 65:101655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2019.101655 PMID:31836426