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Prior tonsillectomy is associated with an increased risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma

BACKGROUND: Esophageal cancer is a deadly cancer with 5-year survival <20%. Although multiple risk factors for esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) including obesity, GERD and smoking have been identified, these risk factors do not fully explain the rising incidence of EAC. In this study, we evaluated...

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Autores principales: Garman, Katherine S., Ajayi, Teminioluwa A., Boutte, Harold J., Chiu, Shih-Ting, von Furstenberg, Richard J., Lloyd, Benjamin R., Zhang, Cecelia, Onaitis, Mark W., Chow, Shein-Chung, McCall, Shannon J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7375530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32697782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235906