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The history of medicine suggests that epidemiological observations have been more fruitful in detecting factors causative of disease than has any other approach. Such observations are often relatively inexpensive and have often constituted the stones with which hypotheses have been erected. These can then be tested experimentally and subsequently discarded, modified or confirmed.
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Burkitt, D.P. (1989). Relationships Between Malignant and Non-Malignant Disease of Western Culture. In: Levine, A.S. (eds) Etiology of Cancer in Man. Cancer Growth and Progression, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2532-8_2
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