Early onset pancreatic cancer: Evidence of a major role for smoking and genetic factors

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1894-1897

  Raimondi, Sara ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^a   Löhr, J Matthias ^b,c   Lowenfels, Albert B ^d  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 34548814713     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0341     Document Type: Article

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