Colon cancer: A review of the epidemiology

Epidemiologic Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 499-545

  Potter, John D ^a   Slattery, Martha L ^b   Bostick, Roberd M ^a   Gapstur, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BILE ACID; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM; HORMONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; VITAMIN D; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ACETYLATOR PHENOTYPE; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY SIZE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SMOKING; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027818317     PISSN: 0193936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.epirev.a036132     Document Type: Article

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