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
- 31 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Medical Hypotheses
- Vol. 64 (3), 658-660
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.019
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