Toenail selenium concentration and lung cancer in male smokers (Finland)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 923-928

  Hartman, Terryl J ^a,b   Taylor, Philip R ^b   Alfthan, Georg ^c   Fagerstrom, Richard ^e   Virtamo, Jarmo ^c   Mark, Steven D ^e   Virtanen, Mikko ^c   Barrett, Michael J ^d   Albanes, Demetrius ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^e 5A Henderson Building ^*

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Selenium

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAIL BED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING HABIT; TISSUE LEVEL; TOE;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SELENIUM; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOES;

EID: 0036973656     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021912117067     Document Type: Article

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