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Gastrointestinal Cancer: Epidemiology and Experimental Studies

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 91))

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Cancer rates seem to be influenced by two counteractive types of agents:

  1. 1.

    carcinogens, that cause increasing rates for increasing exposure

  2. 2.

    anticarcinogens, that reduce the effects of the carcinogens

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Jansson, B., Jacobs, M.M., Griffin, A.C. (1978). Gastrointestinal Cancer: Epidemiology and Experimental Studies. In: Schrauzer, G.N. (eds) Inorganic and Nutritional Aspects of Cancer. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 91. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0796-9_21

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