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The change of the staple diet of black South Africans from sorghum to maize (corn) is the cause of the epidemic of squamous carcinoma of the oesophagus

C. Isaacson

Medical Hypotheses · 2004 · 95 citations · 15 references

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Simultaneous occurrence of fumonisin B1 and other mycotoxins in moldy corn collected from the People's Republic of China in regions with high incidences of esophageal cancer

F S Chu, G Y Li · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1994 · 528 citations · Full text

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Cancer Incidence in the Bantu and “Cape Colored” Races of South Africa: Report of a Cancer Survey in the Transvaal (1953–55)2

John Higginson, A. G. Oettlé · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 1960 · 248 citations

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Epidemiologic and Dietary Evidence for a Specific Nutritional Predisposition to Esophageal Cancer

S.J. Van Rensburg · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 1981 · 230 citations

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Incidence of Fusarium species and the mycotoxins, deoxynivalenol and zearalenone, in corn produced in esophageal cancer areas in Transkei

Walter F. O. Marasas, S.J. Van Rensburg, Chester J. Mirocha · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry · 1979 · 185 citations

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Siderosis in the Bantu

T. H. Bothwell, C. Isaacson · BMJ · 1962 · 117 citations · Full text

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