Meat or wheat for the next millennium? Plenary lecture. High-meat diets and cancer risk

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-248

  Bingham, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Cancer; Meat; N nitroso compounds

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; HETEROCYCLIC AMINE; NITROSO DERIVATIVE;

ACETYLATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; COLON CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FERMENTATION; MEAT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PROSTATE CANCER; VEGETARIAN DIET;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FERMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; NEOPLASMS; NITROGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0032770053     PISSN: 00296651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0029665199000336     Document Type: Article

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