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Sex-specific exposure prevalence of established risk factors for oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

M Rutegård, H Nordenstedt, Y Lu, J Lagergren, and P Lagergren

Br J Cancer 103(5):735-40 (2010) PMID 20700121 PMCID PMC2938252

There is an unexplained male predominance in the incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma, and the sex-specific distribution of its risk factors in the general population is not known.

DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605804
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