Tea and cancer prevention: An evaluation of the epidemiologic literature

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-13

  Kohlmeier, Lenore ^a   Weterings, Karen G C ^b   Steck, Susan ^a   Kok, Frans J ^b  

^a Univ of N Carolina at Chapel Hill ^*  (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TEA;

ANIMALIA; CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 0031022232     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589709514494     Document Type: Review

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