Milena Foerster Scientist
Environment and Lifestyle Epidemiology

Cancer Risk Associated with the Body Art of Tattooing (CRABAT)
Ongoing cohort within the French Constances cohort study

Tattoo inK (From German: Tattoos in der nationalen Kohorte)
Ongoing cohort within the German NAKO cohort study


Hosseini, B., McCarty, R. D., Zins, M., Goldberg, M., Ribet, C., Schreiver, I., ... & Foerster, M. 2024. Cohort profile: The Cancer Risk Associated with the Body Art of Tattooing (CRABAT) study. Preprint medRxiv, 2024-10.

Foerster, M., Dufour, L., Bäumler, W., Schreiver, I., Goldberg, M., Zins, M., ... & 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 Formative Research, 2023, vol. 7, p. e42158.

Foerster, M., McCormack, V., Anderson, B. O., Boucheron, P., Zietsman, A., Cubasch, H., ... & Kantelhardt, E. J. 2022. Treatment guideline concordance, initiation, and abandonment in patients with non-metastatic breast cancer from the African Breast Cancer–Disparities in Outcomes … The Lancet Oncology, 23(6), 729-738.

Foerster, M., Schreiver, I., Luch, A., & Schüz, J. 2020. Tattoo inks and cancer. Cancer Epidemiology, 2020, vol. 65.

Foerster, M., Thielens, A., Joseph, W., Eeftens, M., & Röösli, M. 2018. A prospective cohort study of adolescents’ memory performance and individual brain dose of microwave radiation from wireless communication. Environmental health perspectives, 126(7), 077007.


European Society of Tattoo and Pigment Research, member of the board

Member of the International BfR Commission on Tattoo inks


Best published PhD article in 2019 by the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)