Editorial: Clearing the air on smoking and colorectal cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 996-997

  Boland, C Richard ^a   Goel, Ajay ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; BRAF PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 77954975771     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq241     Document Type: Editorial

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