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Comment
. 2016 Feb;64(2):516-517.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2015.09.026. Epub 2015 Nov 7.

Younger age at cancer diagnosis may be driven by age structure of the HCV population

Meredith S Shiels  1 , Hilary A Robbins  2 , Eric A Engels  3
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Younger age at cancer diagnosis may be driven by age structure of the HCV population

Meredith S Shiels et al. J Hepatol. 2016 Feb.
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Number of total cancer cases occurring in SEER-13 in 2008 by age group (black bars), and estimated to occur in SEER-13 if the age distribution of the population had been the same as the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (gray bars). Asterisks indicate age groups containing the median age at cancer diagnosis under each scenario.
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