Exercise and Cancer: Linkages with Obesity?

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 321-339

  Shephard, Roy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; COLON TUMOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY;

EID: 0030120096     PISSN: 10408398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408399609527728     Document Type: Review

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