High-activity microsomal epoxide hydrolase genotypes and the risk of oral, pharynx, and larynx cancers

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 534-536

  Jourenkova Mironova, Nadejda ^a   Mitrunen, Katja ^b   Bouchardy, Christine ^c   Dayer, Pierre ^d   Benhamou, Simone ^a   Hirvonen, Ari ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c GENEVA CANCER REGISTRY   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPOXIDE HYDROLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPOXIDE HYDROLASES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033973799     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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