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Association between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and risk of different pathological types of lung cancer: a Mendelian randomization study.
Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology - 1 Aug 2023
Zheng Hao, Nie Duorui, Huang Xuewu
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BACKGROUND: Many epidemiological studies have shown that idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a risk factor for lung cancer (LC), but these studies do not provide direct evidence of a causal association between the two diseases. We investigated the causal association between IPF and different pathological types of LC based on the Mendelian randomization (MR) study. METHODS: The genome-wide association study...
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