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Opium use: an emerging risk factor for cancer?

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Published in Lancet Oncol on February 01, 2014

Authors

Farin Kamangar1, Ramin Shakeri2, Reza Malekzadeh2, Farhad Islami3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health Analysis, School of Community Health and Policy, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: farin.kamangar@morgan.edu.
2: Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3: Digestive Oncology Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Transitional Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

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