Reduced aflatoxin exposure presages decline in liver cancer mortality in an endemic region of China

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1038-1045

  Chen, Jian Guo ^a,b   Egner, Patricia A ^c   Ng, Derek ^c   Jacobson, Lisa P ^c   Muñoz, Alvaro ^c   Zhu, Yuan Rong ^a   Qian, Geng Sun ^a   Wu, Felicia ^d   Yuan, Jian Min ^e   Groopman, John D ^c   Kensler, Thomas W ^c,d,f  

^a QIDONG LIVER CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; ALBUMIN; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; MAIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RICE; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AFLATOXINS; AGED; ALBUMINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; ORYZA SATIVA; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84887899631     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-13-0168     Document Type: Article

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