Diet and the prevention of cancer

BMJ

Volumn 317, Issue 7173, 1998, Pages 1636-1640

  Cummings, John H ^a   Bingham, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIET; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; NEOPLASM; PANCREAS TUMOR; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUMOR; UTERUS CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIET; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032512217     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.317.7173.1636     Document Type: Article

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