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Coarse fishing and urothelial cancer: a regional case-control study.
In a regional case-control study of coarse fishing and urothelial cancer, histories from 989 patients with tumours diagnosed in the period 1985-87 were compared with histories from 2,059 unmatched electoral register controls and 1,599 matched general practitioner controls. Angling and the use of dye...
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| Formato: | Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
1990
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2390475 |
| Sumario: | In a regional case-control study of coarse fishing and urothelial cancer, histories from 989 patients with tumours diagnosed in the period 1985-87 were compared with histories from 2,059 unmatched electoral register controls and 1,599 matched general practitioner controls. Angling and the use of dyed maggots by anglers were not found to be risk factors. The study emphasises the importance of the established risk factor of cigarette smoking. |
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