Smoking, type of alcoholic beverage and squamous-cell oesophageal cancer in northern Italy

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 144-149

  Zambon, Paola ^a   Talamini, Renato ^b   La Vecchia, Carlo ^c,d   Dal Maso, Luigino ^b   Negri, Eva ^c   Tognazzo, Sandro ^a   Simonato, Lorenzo ^a   Franceschi, Silvia ^b  

^a Servizio di Epidemiologia dei Tumori   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0034090915     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(20000401)86:1<144::AID-IJC23>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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