Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on July 19, 2007
Carcinogenesis 2007 28(8):1621; doi:10.1093/carcin/bgm139
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Although molecular epidemiology is not a new discipline, and laboratory methods have been applied for decades to epidemiological studies of cardiovascular, infectious and other types of diseases, the paper by Perera et al. (1) on the application of DNA adducts to cancer research in an epidemiologic framework, which was published in the Journal of Chronic Diseases 25 years ago, is often