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Environmental factors promoting bladder cancer.
Current opinion in urology - 1 Sept 2009
Hirao Yoshihiko, Kim Wun-Jae, Fujimoto Kiyohide
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To understand the molecular mechanisms of bladder carcinogenesis in relation to environmental carcinogens in order to provide a given population with a preventive value of bladder cancer. RECENT FINDINGS: Cigarette smoking, aromatic amines contained in dyes, chronic inflammation due to infection such as schistosomiasis, anticancer drugs, drug abuse of analgesic, and radiation are considered as...
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