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OPINION article

Front. Oncol.

Sec. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

Iron reduction via periodic calibrated phlebotomy to target ferritin lowers cancer incidence and mortality in patients with peripheral artery disease: further insights from the FeAST trial

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Tusk Enterprises LLC, 739003, Arlington, United States
  • 2Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

Keywords: phlebotomy / methods, ferritins / blood, neoplasms / prevention & control, neoplasms /mortality, risk reduction behavior / statistics & numerical data

Received: 29 Aug 2025; Accepted: 13 Nov 2025.

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* Correspondence: Paul Pisarik, okie_2015@yahoo.com

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