Paola Pacetti
Listed contributor
Identity and Disambiguation (Caveat)
This identity is established by namespace analysis at about 90 percent confidence. PubMed "Pacetti P" contains exactly two candidate identities: (a) Paola Pacetti, medical oncologist, Carrara/Tuscany, Italy - 15+ papers 2005-2022 with the forename "Paola" verified (PMIDs 41755766, 35182587, 25900109, 25238546, 19443413, 17203763), affiliated with the Massa-Carrara City Hospital / Carrara Civic Hospital oncology units; and (b) "Patti E. Pacetti", a US cardiology-device researcher (St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts) last indexed in 2002. Study 2 (2007) falls inside the window where only candidate (a) was active. Decisive positive evidence: her group's 2007 paper "Intra-arterial and systemic chemotherapy plus external hyperthermia in unresectable biliary cancer" (PMID 17892927, Clin Oncol) co-authors Pacetti P with the Mambrini/Orlandi/Cantore team that co-authored Paola's other 2005-2008 papers (PMIDs 16372497, 16388280, 17695488, 18214035, 18192882) - topic-adjacent hyperthermia work in the same year as Study 2. Negative evidence: OpenAlex's study-record attribution ("Patricia E. Pacetti", University of Rome Tor Vergata) demonstrably refers to a different person - that OpenAlex profile (A5004511549) contains Josephson-junction physics papers (1994-1996) and US cardiology-device papers (1991-2002) but no Italian oncology papers, and it is not used.
What Is Verified
- Name (verified at about 90 percent): Paola Pacetti, medical oncologist.
- Affiliation: Department of Oncology, Massa-Carrara City Hospital / Carrara Civic Hospital, Italy (PubMed affiliation strings on PMIDs 17203763, 19443413, 25238546); later Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest, Carrara (PMIDs 25900109, 27486979); Medical Oncology Unit, Apuane Hospital, Massa (PMID 41755766, 2026).
- Research focus: medical oncology - unresectable gastrointestinal and biliary tumors, intra-arterial chemotherapy, and hyperthermia-combined chemo protocols (PMIDs 17892927, 17695488, 16372497).
- Bibliometrics (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-03): 45 indexed works, 673 citations, h-index 14 - this profile's corpus is the Italian oncology corpus and matches candidate (a) above.
- Caveat: her medical degree and her precise role in Study 2's authorship (likely an invited co-author as the hyperthermia-oncology specialist) - unverified - omitted. The connection between the CONI/Juntendo group and a Massa-Carrara oncologist is consistent with the external-hyperthermia oncology overlap, but the direct link is not documented in a machine-fetchable source.
Role in Study 2
Co-author of Study 2. See Study 2: Hyperthermia Induced by Microwave Diathermy (British Medical Bulletin, 2007).
Relationship statement: King Brand utilized the individual's work in the development of our products and treatments. The study and all the professional's work was independent of King Brand - they did not work for us, nor were they compensated by us - it is truly independent. King Brand has relied on the results of this study, this individual's work, and the work and studies of others in the development of our medical solutions.
Sources
OpenAlex author record · Study 2 on PubMed (PMID 17942453) · Hyperthermia-oncology paper (PMID 17892927)
Profile verified as of 2026-09-03; annual re-verification scheduled. Every statement is traceable to the sources above; facts that could not be verified are omitted.