Smoking-related colorectal cancer in older women is associated with molecularly-defined DNA changes

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 15:14 in Health & Medicine

Smoking, an established risk factor for colon cancer, may induce specific epigenetic changes and gene mutations that may be involved in the development of colon cancer, according to an online study published June 29 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute.

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