IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(1):197-198; doi:10.1093/ije/dyh403
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In this issue, Leticia Fernandez and her fellow epidemiologists from Cuba, Barcelona, and Lyon report interesting findings of their casecontrol study in Havana, Cuba.1 The report adds relevant information supporting the causal relationship between chronic inflammation and cancer development. The list of infections and chronic inflammatory states aetiologically linked to cancer is