Vitamin E serum levels and gastric cancer: Results from a cohort of patients in Tuscany, Italy

Cancer Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-18

  Battisti, Carla ^a   Formichi, Patrizia ^a   Tripodi, Sergio Antonia ^a   Vindigni, Carla ^a   Roviello, Francesco ^a   Federico, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastric cancer; Histotype; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGED; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TURKEY; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0034599428     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(99)00392-4     Document Type: Article

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