The earlier age of onset of malignancy in developing world is related to overall infection burden and could be due to the effect on telomere length

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 573-574

  Sastry, P S R K ^a   Parikh, Purvish ^b  

^a JASLOK HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CELL AGING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFECTION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

EID: 0037375764     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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