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Tumor-based case-control studies of infection and cancer: muddling the when and where of molecular epidemiology

We describe the “tumor-based case-control” study as a type of epidemiologic study used to evaluate associations between infectious agents and cancer. These studies assess exposure using diseased tissues from affected individuals (i.e., evaluating tumor tissue in studying cancer cases), but they must...

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Main Authors: Engels, Eric A., Wacholder, Sholom, Katki, Hormuzd A., Chaturvedi, Anil K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184938/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063520
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0282
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