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Cigarette smoking and genetic alterations in sporadic colon carcinomas.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Mar 2003
Diergaarde Brenda, Vrieling Alina, van Kraats Annemieke A, van Muijen Goos N P, Kok Frans J, Kampman Ellen
Abstract excerpt
Cigarette smoking has been inconsistently associated with colon cancer risk. To evaluate the hypothesis that smoking is primarily linked to a specific colon tumor subgroup(s), we assessed associations between smoking and the occurrence of mutations in the APC, K-ras and p53 genes, p53 overexpression, and microsatellite instability (MSI) in a Dutch population-based case-control study on sporadic colon carcinomas....
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