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Relationships of early esophageal cancer with human papillomavirus and alcohol metabolism.
World journal of gastroenterology - 21 Oct 2020
Inoue Masaki, Shimizu Yuichi, Ishikawa Marin, Abiko Satoshi, Shimoda Yoshihiko, Tanaka Ikko, Kinowaki Sayoko, Ono Masayoshi, Yamamoto Keiko, Ono Shoko, Sakamoto Naoya
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BACKGROUND: It is well known that an alcohol consumption habit together with inactive heterozygous aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) is an important risk factor for the development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). It remains controversial whether human papillomavirus (HPV) infection contributes to the occurrence/development of ESCC. There has been no study in which the relationship between ESCC and...
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