Calcium channel blockers and cancer: Is an association biologically plausible?

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 713-714

  Daling, Janet R ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DNA DAMAGE; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR PROMOTION;

EID: 0030198951     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-7061(96)00219-1     Document Type: Editorial

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