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Red blood cell folate as a risk factor for breast cancer among patients at a tertiary hospital in Uganda: a case control study

BACKGROUND: Folate has been shown to play a complex but unclear role in carcinogenesis, with some studies showing that low folate intake protects against early carcinogenesis while high folate intake promotes advanced carcinogenesis. Other studies have shown that high folate is associated with decre...

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Autores principales:	Rukundo, Gideon, Galukande, Moses, Ongom, Peter, Fualal, Jane Odubu
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25135447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-260

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