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The research aims to explore the role of molecular epidemiology in understanding and preventing cancer through biologic markers.

Molecular Cancer Epidemiology: A New Tool in Cancer Prevention

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Molecular epidemiology studies genetic damage to enhance cancer prevention, implying improved early hazard detection.

The research aims to explore the role of molecular epidemiology in understanding and preventing cancer through biologic markers.
Review of existing studies focused on carcinogen-DNA adducts and other biologic markers.
Analysis of human biomonitoring data related to chemical carcinogenesis.
Discussion of marker validation criteria and study design for future research.
Identified significant progress in developing biologic markers over the past 5 years.
Demonstrated that biologic markers enhance the understanding of risks in human populations.
Highlighted the importance of markers for causal relationship determination between exposure and cancer.

F. P. Perera (1987) studied this question.

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