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Family history of cancer and risk for esophageal and gastric cancer in Shanxi, China.
BMC cancer - 5 Aug 2009
Gao Ying, Hu Nan, Han XiaoYou, Giffen Carol, Ding Ti, Goldstein Alisa, Taylor Philip
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Family history (FH) by different relative types and risk of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancers has been only rarely reported; the data on UGI cancer survival are sparse. METHODS: 600 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cases, 598 gastric cardia adenocarcinoma cases, and 316 gastric non-cardia adenocarcinoma cases, and 1514 age-, gender-, and neighborhood-matched controls were asked for FH in...
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