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Podolsky Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director for Cancer Epidemiology, Mass General Cancer Center, Chief, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine</p> <p class="profile-card__article"> <strong>Recent Article</strong><br> <a href="/digestive-health/article-external.aspx?id=1169">Taking Aspirin Associated With Reduction in Colorectal Cancer Among High-Risk Population</a> </p> </div> <p class="profile-card__image"> <img alt="Andrew Chan, MD, MPH" itemprop="image" srcset="/assets/images/contributors/david_chan_advances.png, /assets/images/contributors/david_chan_advances_2x.png 2x" src="/assets/images/contributors/david_chan_advances.png"> </p> </li> <li class="profile-card" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <div class="profile-card__content"> <p class="profile-card__content__image"> <img alt="" itemprop="image" srcset="/assets/images/contributors/areej_el_jawahri_advances.png, /assets/images/contributors/areej_el_jawahri_advances_2x.png 2x" src="/assets/images/contributors/areej_el_jawahri_advances.png"> </p> <h3 class="profile-card__name" itemprop="name"> <a href="/contributors/contributor.aspx?id=1553" itemprop="url">Areej R. 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