Site-specific Analysis of Total Serum Cholesterol and Incident Cancer in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 452-458

  Schatzkin, Arthur ^a   Hoover, Robert N ^a   Taylor, Philip R ^a   Ziegler, Regina ^a   Carter, Christine L ^a   Albanes, Demetrius ^a   Larson, David B ^b   Licitra, Lisa M ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLORECTAL CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023857966     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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