Selenium and cancer: Risk or protection?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 473-476

  Clark, Larry C ^a   Alberts, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; SKIN CANCER;

HUMAN; NAILS; NEOPLASMS; SELENIUM; TOES;

EID: 0028947665     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/87.7.473     Document Type: Editorial

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