Tea and cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 1993, Pages 1038-1049

  Yang, Chung S ^a   Wang, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENOTOXICITY; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEA; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMAL; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CARCINOGENS; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TEA;

EID: 0027253413     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/85.13.1038     Document Type: Review

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