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Hongwei Tang1, Peng Wei, Eric J Duell

  • 1Authors' Affiliations: Departments of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Division of Biostatistics and Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain; Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht; Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon; Institut national de la santé et de la recherche medicale (INSERM), Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), U1018, Nutrition, Hormones and Women's Health team; Univ. Paris Sud, UMRS 1018; IGR, F-94805, Villejuif, France; Division of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Primary Care, Imperial College London, London; School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark; Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Bureau of Epidemiologic Research, Academy of Athens; Hellenic Health Foundation, Athens, Greece; Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy; and Department

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention : a Publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, Cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
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