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Meat consumption, cigarette smoking, and genetic susceptibility in the etiology of colorectal cancer: results from a Dutch prospective study.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 May 2002
Tiemersma Edine W, Kampman Ellen, Bueno de Mesquita H B, Bunschoten Annelies, van Schothorst Evert M, Kok Frans J, Kromhout Daan
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OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the effect of meat consumption and cigarette smoking in combination with N-acetyltransferases 1 and 2 (NAT1 and NAT2), and glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) genotypes on colorectal cancer. METHODS: From a Dutch prospective study, after 8.5 years of follow-up, data of 102 incident colorectal cancer cases and a random sample of 537 controls frequency-matched for gender and age were...
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