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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: EPIDEMIOLOGY

Smoking-adjusted risk of renal pelvis cancer by occupation: a population-based cohort study of Nordic men

Irmina Maria MichalekFaculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; Correspondence[email protected]
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Kristina KjærheimDepartment of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; View further author information
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Jan Ivar MartinsenDepartment of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; View further author information
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Pär SparénDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; View further author information
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Laufey TryggvadóttirIcelandic Cancer Registry, Reykjavik, Iceland; ;Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; View further author information
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Elisabete WeiderpassDepartment of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, Oslo, Norway; ;Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ;Genetic Epidemiology Group, Folkhälsan Research Center and Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; ;Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-0128View further author information
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Eero PukkalaFaculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; ;Finnish Cancer Registry, Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland; View further author information
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Elsebeth LyngeNykøbing Falster Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DenmarkView further author information
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Pages 112-115 | Received 19 Apr 2019, Accepted 08 Sep 2019, Published online: 20 Sep 2019

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