Nutrition and stomach cancer

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-55

  Kono, Suminori ^a   Hirohata, Tomio ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diet; Epidemiology; Review; Salt; Stomach cancer

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; SELENIUM;

FRUIT; HUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; STOMACH CANCER; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; FRUIT; HUMANS; NITRATES; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SELENIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; STARCH; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VEGETABLES; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0030041047     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00115637     Document Type: Review

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