Serum tocopherols, selenium and lung cancer risk among tin miners in China

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-135

  Ratnasinghe, Duminda ^a   Tangrea, Joseph A ^a   Forman, Michele R ^a   Hartman, Terry ^a   Gunter, Elaine W ^b   Qiao, You Lin ^c   Yao, Shu Xiang ^c   Barett, Michael J ^d   Giffen, Carol A ^d   Erozan, Yener ^e   Tockman, Melvyn S ^f   Taylor, Philip R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NHANES Lab of Biochem Analyses at   (United States)

^c Yunnan Tin Corporation   (China)

^d INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Selenium; Tocopherol; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; SELENIUM; TIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RISK; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0033974636     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008977320811     Document Type: Article

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