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Risk of colon cancer in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer patients as predicted by fuzzy modeling: Influence of smoking.
World journal of gastroenterology - 28 Jul 2006
Brand Rhonda M, Jones David D, Lynch Henry T, Brand Randall E, Watson Patrice, Ashwathnayaran Ramesh, Roy Hemant K
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To investigate whether a fuzzy logic model could predict colorectal cancer (CRC) risk engendered by smoking in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) patients. METHODS: Three hundred and forty HNPCC mismatch repair (MMR) mutation carriers from the Creighton University Hereditary Cancer Institute Registry were selected for modeling. Age-dependent curves were generated to elucidate the joint...
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