The search for cancer risk factors: When can we stop looking?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 360-364

  Begg, C B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; DIETARY INTAKE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MELANOMA; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SUN EXPOSURE;

EID: 0035118008     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.3.360     Document Type: Article

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