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Volatile Nitrosamines in Food Samples Collected in Three High Risk Areas for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

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Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Disease

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has a marked worldwide and ethnic distribution and is prevalent among three widely different populations, such as Chinese in South East Asia, Arabs in North Africa and Eskimos in the Arctic.

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Poirier, S., Hubert, A., de-Thé, G., Oshima, H., Bourgade, M.C., Bartsch, H. (1987). Volatile Nitrosamines in Food Samples Collected in Three High Risk Areas for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. In: Levine, P.H., Ablashi, D.V., Nonoyama, M., Pearson, G.R., Glaser, R. (eds) Epstein-Barr Virus and Human Disease. Experimental Biology and Medicine, vol 15. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4590-2_93

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