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Ethnogeographic Patterns in Gallbladder Cancer

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Epidemiology of Cancer of the Digestive Tract

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 6))

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In the past few years a great deal of information has been compiled regarding interpopulation variation in carcinoma of the gallbladder. The primary purpose of the present paper is to review this information. A secondary purpose is to consider the form and pattern of interpopulation variation in the light of recent work on gallbladder cancer in the tri ethnic population of New Mexico. Finally, a series of conclusions will be drawn about the meaning of such variation as it pertains to a possible causal mechanism for the disease.

This work was completed while the author was a Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas.

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Devor, E.J. (1982). Ethnogeographic Patterns in Gallbladder Cancer. In: Correa, P., Haenszel, W. (eds) Epidemiology of Cancer of the Digestive Tract. Developments in Oncology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7502-6_8

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