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A burning question: does hot green tea drinking increase the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma?
Authors Cronin-Fenton D
Received 10 August 2018
Accepted for publication 13 August 2018
Published 25 September 2018 Volume 2018:10 Pages 1321—1323
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S183480
Checked for plagiarism Yes
Editor who approved publication: Professor Henrik Sørensen
Deirdre Cronin-Fenton
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University, Aarhus N, Denmark
This editorial comments on the paper “Hot green tea drinking increases esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk in a high-risk area of China: a population-based case–control study”.8
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The author reports no conflicts of interest in this work.
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