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Reactive oxygen species and gastric cancer risk: a large nested case–control study in Japan

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the National Cancer Center Research and Development Fund (23-A-31[toku] and 26-A-2; since 2011), a Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan (from 1989 to 2010), and a Grant-in-Aid for the Third-Term Comprehensive Ten-Year Strategy for Cancer Control from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan. We are indebted to the Aomori, Iwate, Ibaraki, Niigata, Osaka, Kochi, Nagasaki, and Okinawa Cancer Registries for providing their incidence data. We also appreciate all the members of the JPHC study.

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  1. Department of Clinical Trial and Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan

    Enbo Ma

  2. Epidemiology and Prevention Group, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan

    Shizuka Sasazuki, Taichi Shimazu, Norie Sawada, Taiki Yamaji, Motoki Iwasaki, Manami Inoue & Shoichiro Tsugane

  3. Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Manami Inoue

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Ma, E., Sasazuki, S., Shimazu, T. et al. Reactive oxygen species and gastric cancer risk: a large nested case–control study in Japan. Eur J Epidemiol 30, 589–594 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0025-6

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