Cancer screening of upper aerodigestive
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Akira Yokoyama; Tai Ohmori; Taro Muramatsu; Susumu Higuchi; Tetsuji Yokoyama; Sa
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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French
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In this study, 1,000 Japanese male alcoholics were consecutively screened by upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with esophageal iodine staining. Associations among cancer-detection rates, drinking and smoking habits, and aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) genotypes were evaluated. A total of 53 patients