Leukocyte telomere length in relation to pancreatic cancer risk: a prospective study.
BACKGROUND: Several studies have examined leukocyte telomere length (LTL) as a possible predictor for cancer at various organ sites. The hypothesis originally motivating many of these studies was that shorter telomeres would be associated with an increase in cancer risk; the results of epidemiologic...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
2014
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