© 2001 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 10, 791,
May 16, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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Affiliations of authors: K. B. Michels, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; E. Giovannucci, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; D. Feskanich, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School; W. C. Willett, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
Correspondence to: Karin B. Michels, Sc.D., Channing Laboratory, 181 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: kmichels@rics.bwh.harvard.edu).
We thank Drs. Nelson, Persky, and Turyk for emphasizing that colorectal cancer is largely preventable. Indeed, we agree that much progress has been made in recent years to identify modifiable factors that can prevent colon cancer:
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