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Letter regarding, “Association between the use of aspirin and risk of lung cancer: results from pooled cohorts and Mendelian randomization analyses”

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The code to reproduce this analysis can be found at (https://github.com/an0435/aspirin_lung_cancer_MR/).

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr Philip C. Haycock for his feedback considering the manuscript.

Funding

This work was funded by Cancer Research UK (C18281/A19169) and the Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, which is supported by the Medical Research Council and the University of Bristol [MC_UU_00011/1 and MC_UU_00011/4].

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    Aayah Nounu, Venexia Walker & Rebecca C. Richmond

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AN provided the initial concept, performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. VW helped with reviewing and editing the manuscript. RCR helped with supervising as well as reviewing and editing the manuscript.

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Nounu, A., Walker, V. & Richmond, R.C. Letter regarding, “Association between the use of aspirin and risk of lung cancer: results from pooled cohorts and Mendelian randomization analyses”. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 147, 2171–2173 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00432-020-03508-z

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