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Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology Volume 42, 2007 - Issue 5
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Pathology findings and validation of gastric and esophageal cancer cases in a European cohort (EPIC/EUR-GAST)

Fátima Carneiro Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Portugal; Medical Faculty/H.S. João, Porto, PortugalCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cátia Moutinho Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Portugal
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Guillem Pera Department of Epidemiology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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Carlos Caldas Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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Claus Fenger Department of Clinical Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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Johan Offerhaus Pathology Department, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Vicki Save Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Roger Stenling Department of Medical Biosciences, University of Umea, Sweden
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Gabriella Nesi Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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U Mahlke Institute of Pathology, Potsdam, Germany
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Hendrik Bläker Division of General Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Julio Torrado Pathology Department, Hospital Nuestra Sra de Aranzazu, San Sebastián, Spain
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Dimitrios H. Roukos University of Ioannina, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Jean-Christophe Sabourin Départment of Pathology, Institut Gustave Roussy, France
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Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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Domenico Palli Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Cancer Research and Prevention, Florence, Italy
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H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita Centre for Nutrition and Health and Centre for Information Technology and Methodology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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Kim Overvad Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aalborg Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital, and Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Sheila Bingham MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK
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Françoise Clavel-Chapelon Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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Eiliv Lund Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway
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Antonia Trichopoulou Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece
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Jonas Manjer Department of Surgery, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Elio Riboli Nutrition and Hormones Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Imperial College, London, UK
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Carlos A. Gonzalez Department of Epidemiology, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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Pages 618-627 | Received 10 Oct 2006, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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