
S6.11: Meet the DNA Detectives hunting the causes of cancer
Genetics Unzipped
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The High Rates of Esophageal Cancer in Western Kenya
Diana Menya is a Kenyan epidemiologist who has worked at the Moi for many years. She first alerted her to the unusually high rates of cancer in the region. Her solution was to set up escape, that's isophageal squamous cell carcinoma African prevention research. A case control study recruiting people who have esophageal cancer and people who don't will compare their environments and lifestyles. Tobacco and alcohol are two of the factors likely to be responsible for the surface of Esophageal cancers in western Kenya. But although these two culprits may account for a lot of cases, they can't explain them all.
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