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The power of a healthy lifestyle for cancer prevention: the example of colorectal cancer

Xuechen Chen, Jie Ding, Hengjing Li, Prudence R. Carr, Michael Hoffmeister and Hermann Brenner
Cancer Biology & Medicine November 2022, 19 (11) 1586-1597; DOI: https://doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2022.0397

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