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Alcohol and colorectal cancer risk, subclassified by mutational signatures of DNA mismatch repair deficiency.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 1 Aug 2024
Fang Aiping, Ugai Tomotaka, Gurjao Carino, Zhong Rong, Liu Zhenhua, Zhang Xinyuan, Wang Peilu, Nowak Jonathan, Wang Molin, Giannakis Marios, Ogino Shuji, Zhang Xuehong, Giovannucci Edward
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BACKGROUND: We examined whether the association between alcohol consumption and colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence was stronger for tumors with higher contributions of defective mismatch repair (dMMR)-related tumor mutational signatures. METHODS: We used data from 227 916 men and women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study (1980-2016), the Nurses' Health Study II (1991-2017), and the Health Professionals...
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