Gastric Cancer

Data on gastric cancer described by researchers at Anhui Medical University

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 29th, 2010

According to recent research from Hefei, People's Republic of China, "Numerous studies have investigated the risk of cancer associated with the polymorphism of epidermal growth factor (EGF) 61A >G, but the results have been inconsistent. We performed this meta-analysis to drive a more precise estimation of association between this polymorphism and risk of cancer."

"Electronic searches of PubMed and EMBASE were conducted to select studies. control studies containing available genotype frequencies of EGF 61A >G were chose, and Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was used to assess the strength of this association. 23 case-control studies including 5578...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-06-29)

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