## Background: Abo blood type has been associated with various malignancies, including pancreatic cancer. our aim was to study this association using data from a hospital-based tumour registry. ## Methods: From the tumour registry, we retrieved data from 15,359 cancer patients treated during 2000
ABO blood group and cancer
β Scribed by Simona Iodice; Patrick Maisonneuve; Edoardo Botteri; Maria Teresa Sandri; Albert B. Lowenfels
- Book ID
- 116430521
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 303 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8049
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