Category Archive: Research Resources

Mar 29

Leveraging Existing Biospecimen Resources to Advance Cancer Epidemiology Research

Genetic and environmental risk factors contribute to the occurrence of most common cancers (1).  Moreover, these relationships with cancer risk are complicated by the fact that the spectrum of risk factors may depend on the specific cancer subtype.  For example, different genetic loci are associated with risk of specific breast cancer subtypes (2­).  Beyond genetic …

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