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However, a recently published report on this association, based on a prospective cohort of 28,283 post-menopausal women, described a trend of decreasing risk of pancreatic cancer with increased weekly aspirin use [ 30 ] .
Because of the large number of patients seen at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute over the long study period (1982-1998), close to 200 pancreatic cancer patients were included in the analysis.
The pancreatic islets were evaluated blindly with semi-quantitative morphological scoring of fluorescent intensity: 0, no or very weak Ogg1 staining; 1, moderate Ogg1 staining; and 2, strong Ogg1 staining.
As packyears of cigarettes smoked smoking (packs per day × years of smoking) and family history of pancreatic cancer were found to be predictors of disease in our data, they were adjusted for in the regression models, along with age.
One of the hallmarks of cancer includes the accumulation of mutations in key genes, namely DNA repair genes [ 4 ] , tumor suppressor genes [ 5 6 ] , and proto-oncogenes [ 5 6 ] , accompanied by the loss of the wildtype allele, resulting in loss of heterozygosity [LOH, see reviews by [ 7 8 9 ] ]. Pancreatic cancer, which results in the death of approximately 30,000 Americans annually and is the fourth leading cause of cancer mortalities in the United States, exhibits this hallmark [ 10 ] . For example, in pancreatic cancer there is a high incidence of mutations (>50%) in the tumor suppressor genes p16, p53 and DPC4 and approximately 90% of cases coincide with a mutation in the oncogene K- ras 2 [see review by [ 11 ] ]. Furthermore, a significant percentage of tumors harboring a mutated copy of DPC4 or p53 also lose the corresponding wildtype allele, resulting in LOH [see reviews by [ 11 12 ] ].
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