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Meera Jain
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 73
Citations - 7428
Meera Jain is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cohort study & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 72 publications receiving 7243 citations. Previous affiliations of Meera Jain include Columbia University & Ontario Ministry of the Environment.
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Are Female Smokers at Higher Risk for Lung Cancer than Male Smokers? A Case-Control Analysis by Histologic Type
TL;DR: It was found that, for both sexes, a greatly elevated risk of developing lung cancer was associated with cigarette consumption, increasing with pack-years of cigarettes smoked and declining with duration of time since quitting smoking.
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Dietary factors and the incidence of cancer of the stomach
Harvey A. Risch,Meera Jain,N. Won Choi,J. George Fodor,Carl J. Pfeiffer,Geoffrey R. Howe,L. Harrison,Kevin J. P. Craib,Anthony B. Miller +8 more
TL;DR: It was found that consumption of dietary fiber was associated with decreased risk of gastric cancer; the odds ratio estimate of trend was 0.40/10 g average daily intake of fiber, and a number of dietary components seem to be implicated in the pathogenesis of stomach cancer.
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A case-control study of diet and colo-rectal cancer.
TL;DR: The dietary data thus refer to recent diet consumed in a period antedating the diagnosis of, and in most cases symptoms from, large‐bowel cancer in the cases, and a corresponding time period in the controls, which indicated an elevated risk for those with a history of bowel polyps.
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Plant Foods, Antioxidants, and Prostate Cancer Risk: Findings From Case-Control Studies in Canada
TL;DR: Exposure to certain dietary components of plant origin, which are potentially modifiable, indicates the theoretical scope for reducing the risk from prostate cancer.
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Epidemiologic Aspects of Gallbladder Cancer: A Case-Control Study of the SEARCH Program of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
Witold Zatonski,A.B. Lowenfels,Peter Boyle,Patrick Maisonneuve,H. B. Bueno De Mesquita,Parviz Ghadirian,Meera Jain,K. Przewozniak,Peter A. Baghurst,C. J. Moerman,A Simard,Geoffrey R. Howe,Anthony J. McMichael,C C Hsieh,Alexander M. Walker +14 more
TL;DR: A large, collaborative, multicenter, case-control study of cancer of the gallbladder was conducted in Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, and Poland from January 1983 through July 1988, and findings are consistent with a major role ofgallstones, or risk factors for gallstones, in the cause ofgallbladder cancer.