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A cytochrome P4502E1 genetic polymorphism and tobacco smoking in breast cancer.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 1996
Shields P G, Ambrosone C B, Graham S, Bowman E D, Harrington A M, Gillenwater K A, Marshall J R, Vena J E, Laughlin R, Nemoto T, Freudenheim J L
Abstract excerpt
Known breast-cancer risk factors account for only part of the variability in breast-cancer incidence. Tobacco smoke is not commonly considered a breast carcinogen, but many of its constituents, such as N-nitrosamines, are carcinogenic in laboratory animal studies. Herein, we assessed a cytochrome...
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