Plant foods and colon cancer: An assessment of specific foods and their related nutrients (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 575-590

  Slattery, Martha L ^a   Potter, John D ^b   Coates, Ashley ^c   Ma, Khe Ni ^a   Berry, T Dennis ^a   Duncan, Debra M ^c   Caan, Bette J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Dietary fiber; Folate; Fruits; Thiamin; United States; Vegetables; Vitamin B6; Vitamin C; Whole grains; carotene

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GRAIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLANT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0030804809     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018490212481     Document Type: Review

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