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Associations between ABO blood groups and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: influence on resection status and survival.
Cancer medicine - 1 Jul 2017
El Jellas Khadija, Hoem Dag, Hagen Kristin G, Kalvenes May Britt, Aziz Sura, Steine Solrun J, Immervoll Heike, Johansson Stefan, Molven Anders
Abstract excerpt
Both serology-based and genetic studies have reported an association between pancreatic cancer risk and ABO blood groups. We have investigated this relationship in a cohort of pancreatic cancer patients from Western Norway (n = 237) and two control materials (healthy blood donors, n = 379; unselected hospitalized patients, n = 6149). When comparing patient and blood donor ABO allele frequencies, we found only the...
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