Diet and risk of esophageal cancer by histologic type in a low-risk population

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 300-304

  Tzonou, Anastasia ^a,b   Lipworth, Loren ^b   Garidou, Anna ^a   Signorello, Lisa B ^b   Lagiou, Pagona ^a   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; RETINOL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FRUIT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VEGETABLE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIET; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029851621     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19961104)68:3<300::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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