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  Screening for Colorectal Cancer in a Safety-Net Health Care System: Access to Care Is Critical and Has Implications for Screening Policy

  Samir Gupta, Liyue Tong, James E. Allison, Elizabeth Carter, Mark Koch, Don C. Rockey, Paula Anderson, Chul Ahn, Keith Argenbright and Celette Sugg Skinner

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2373-2379; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0344

  
  
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  Serum Fatty Acid Synthase as a Marker of Pancreatic Neoplasia

  Kim Walter, Seung-Mo Hong, Sinead Nyhan, Marcia Canto, Neal Fedarko, Alison Klein, Margaret Griffith, Noriyuki Omura, Susan Medghalchi, Frank Kuhajda and Michael Goggins

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2380-2385; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0144

  
  
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  Reduced Serum Selenoprotein P Concentrations in German Prostate Cancer Patients

  Hellmuth-Alexander Meyer, Birgit Hollenbach, Carsten Stephan, Tobias Endermann, Nils G. Morgenthaler, Henning Cammann, Josef Köhrle, Klaus Jung and Lutz Schomburg

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2386-2390; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0262

  
  
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  Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Expression Is Associated with a Family History of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer in a High-Risk Population Exposed to Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  Mark J. Roth, Wen-Qiang Wei, Jessica Baer, Christian C. Abnet, Guo-Qing Wang, Lawrence R. Sternberg, Andrew C. Warner, Laura Lee Johnson, Ning Lu, Carol A. Giffen, Sanford M. Dawsey, You-Lin Qiao and James Cherry

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2391-2396; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-1098

  
  
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  Are Racial Disparities in Pancreatic Cancer Explained by Smoking and Overweight/Obesity?

  Lauren D. Arnold, Alpa V. Patel, Yan Yan, Eric J. Jacobs, Michael J. Thun, Eugenia E. Calle and Graham A. Colditz

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2397-2405; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0080

  
  
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  Chronic Periodontitis and the Incidence of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

  Mine Tezal, Maureen A. Sullivan, Andrew Hyland, James R. Marshall, Daniel Stoler, Mary E. Reid, Thom R. Loree, Nestor R. Rigual, Mihai Merzianu, Linda Hauck, Cheryl Lillis, Jean Wactawski-Wende and Frank A. Scannapieco

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2406-2412; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0334

  
  
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  Relationship of Body Mass, Height, and Weight Gain to Prostate Cancer Risk in the Multiethnic Cohort

  Brenda Y. Hernandez, Song-Yi Park, Lynne R. Wilkens, Brian E. Henderson and Laurence N. Kolonel

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2413-2421; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0293

  
  
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  Birth Characteristics and Risk of Prostate Cancer: the Contribution of Genetic Factors

  Sven Cnattingius, Frida Lundberg, Sven Sandin, Henrik Grönberg and Anastasia Iliadou

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2422-2426; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0366

  
  
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  Cigarette Smoking and Prostate Cancer in a Prospective US Cohort Study

  Joanne L. Watters, Yikyung Park, Albert Hollenbeck, Arthur Schatzkin and Demetrius Albanes

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2427-2435; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0252

  
  
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  Association of Alcohol Intake and Smoking with Malignant Lymphoma Risk in Japanese: A Hospital-Based Case-Control Study at Aichi Cancer Center

  Junya Kanda, Keitaro Matsuo, Takakazu Kawase, Takeshi Suzuki, Tatsuo Ichinohe, Masao Seto, Yasuo Morishima, Kazuo Tajima and Hideo Tanaka

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2436-2441; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0050

  
  
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  HIV Infection as a Risk Factor for Cervical Cancer and Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Senegal

  Rebecca S. Holmes, Stephen E. Hawes, Papa Touré, Ahmadou Dem, Qinghua Feng, Noel S. Weiss and Nancy B. Kiviat

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2442-2446; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0956

  
  
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  Birth Weight-Breast Cancer Revisited: Is the Association Confounded by Familial Factors?

  Sara Öberg, Sven Cnattingius, Sven Sandin, Paul Lichtenstein and Anastasia Iliadou

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2447-2452; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0123

  
  
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  Alcohol Consumption and Genetic Variation in Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase and 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate-Homocysteine Methyltransferase in Relation to Breast Cancer Risk

  Mary E. Platek, Peter G. Shields, Catalin Marian, Susan E. McCann, Matthew R. Bonner, Jing Nie, Christine B. Ambrosone, Amy E. Millen, Heather M. Ochs-Balcom, Sylvia K. Quick, Maurizio Trevisan, Marcia Russell, Thomas H. Nochajski, Stephen B. Edge and Jo L. Freudenheim

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2453-2459; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0159

  
  
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  Germ-Line Mutations in Mismatch Repair Genes Associated with Prostate Cancer

  Eli Marie Grindedal, Pål Møller, Ros Eeles, Astrid Tenden Stormorken, Inger Marie Bowitz-Lothe, Stefan Magnus Landrø, Neal Clark, Rune Kvåle, Susan Shanley and Lovise Mæhle

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2460-2467; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0058

  
  
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  The 6q22.33 Locus and Breast Cancer Susceptibility

  Tomas Kirchhoff, Zhang-qun Chen, Bert Gold, Prodipto Pal, Mia M. Gaudet, Kristi Kosarin, Douglas A. Levine, Peter Gregersen, Sara Spencer, Megan Harlan, Mark Robson, Robert J. Klein, Clifford A. Hudis, Larry Norton, Michael Dean and Kenneth Offit

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2468-2475; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0151

  
  
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  Genetic Variants in XRCC2: New Insights Into Colorectal Cancer Tumorigenesis

  Karen Curtin, Wei-Yu Lin, Rina George, Mark Katory, Jennifer Shorto, Lisa A. Cannon-Albright, Gillian Smith, D. Timothy Bishop, Angela Cox, Nicola J. Camp and Colorectal Cancer Study Group

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2476-2484; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0187

  
  
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  Vitamin D Receptor and Calcium Sensing Receptor Polymorphisms and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer in European Populations

  Mazda Jenab, James McKay, Hendrik B. Bueno-de-Mesquita, Franzel J.B. van Duijnhoven, Pietro Ferrari, Nadia Slimani, Eugène H.J.M. Jansen, Tobias Pischon, Sabina Rinaldi, Anne Tjønneland, Anja Olsen, Kim Overvad, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Pierre Engel, Rudolf Kaaks, Jakob Linseisen, Heiner Boeing, Eva Fisher, Antonia Trichopoulou, Vardis Dilis, Erifili Oustoglou, Franco Berrino, Paolo Vineis, Amalia Mattiello, Giovanna Masala, Rosario Tumino, Alina Vrieling, Carla H. van Gils, Petra H. Peeters, Magritt Brustad, Eiliv Lund, María-Dolores Chirlaque, Aurelio Barricarte, Laudina Rodríguez Suárez, Esther Molina, Miren Dorronsoro, Núria Sala, Göran Hallmans, Richard Palmqvist, Andrew Roddam, Timothy J. Key, Kay-Tee Khaw, Sheila Bingham, Paolo Boffetta, Philippe Autier, Graham Byrnes, Teresa Norat and Elio Riboli

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2485-2491; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0319

  
  
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  Functional and Clinical Significance of Variants Localized to 8q24 in Colon Cancer

  Mine S. Cicek, Susan L. Slager, Sara J. Achenbach, Amy J. French, Hilary E. Blair, Stephanie R. Fink, Nathan R. Foster, Brian F. Kabat, Kevin C. Halling, Julie M. Cunningham, James R. Cerhan, Robert B. Jenkins, Lisa A. Boardman, Gloria M. Petersen, Daniel J. Sargent, Steven R. Alberts, Paul J. Limburg and Stephen N. Thibodeau

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2492-2500; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0362

  
  
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  Cyclin A Is a Proliferative Marker with Good Prognostic Value in Node-Negative Breast Cancer

  Cecilia Ahlin, Wenjing Zhou, Marit Holmqvist, Lars Holmberg, Cecilia Nilsson, Karin Jirström, Carl Blomqvist, Rose-Marie Amini and Marie-Louise Fjällskog

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2501-2506; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0169

  
  
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  Human Papillomavirus Types 16 and 18 DNA Load in Relation to Coexistence of Other Types, Particularly Those in the Same Species

  Long Fu Xi, Zoe R. Edelstein, Craig Meyers, Jesse Ho, Stephen L. Cherne and Mark Schiffman

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2507-2512; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0482

  
  
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  p21 Expression in Colon Cancer and Modifying Effects of Patient Age and Body Mass Index on Prognosis

  Shuji Ogino, Katsuhiko Nosho, Kaori Shima, Yoshifumi Baba, Natsumi Irahara, Gregory J. Kirkner, Aditi Hazra, Immaculata De Vivo, Edward L. Giovannucci, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt and Charles S. Fuchs

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2513-2521; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0451

  
  
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  A Novel Polymorphism rs1329149 of CYP2E1 and a Known Polymorphism rs671 of ALDH2 of Alcohol Metabolizing Enzymes Are Associated with Colorectal Cancer in a Southwestern Chinese Population

  Huan Yang, Yanhong Zhou, Ziyuan Zhou, Jinyi Liu, Xiaoyan Yuan, Ketaro Matsuo, Toshiro Takezaki, Kazuo Tajima and Jia Cao

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2522-2527; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0398

  
  
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  Association of Folate-Pathway Gene Polymorphisms with the Risk of Prostate Cancer: a Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study, Systematic Review, and Meta-analysis

  Simon M. Collin, Chris Metcalfe, Luisa Zuccolo, Sarah J. Lewis, Lina Chen, Angela Cox, Michael Davis, J. Athene Lane, Jenny Donovan, George Davey Smith, David E. Neal, Freddie C. Hamdy, Julius Gudmundsson, Patrick Sulem, Thorunn Rafnar, Kristrun R. Benediktsdottir, Rosalind A. Eeles, Michelle Guy, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Group, Jonathan Morrison, Ali Amin Al Olama, Kari Stefansson, Douglas F. Easton and Richard M. Martin

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2528-2539; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0223

  
  
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  Vitamin D Related Genes, CYP24A1 and CYP27B1, and Colon Cancer Risk

  Linda M. Dong, Cornelia M. Ulrich, Li Hsu, David J. Duggan, Debbie S. Benitez, Emily White, Martha L. Slattery, Fred M. Farin, Karen W. Makar, Christopher S. Carlson, Bette J. Caan, John D. Potter and Ulrike Peters

  Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev September 1 2009 18 (9) 2540-2548; DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0228