Vegetables and fruit intake and cancer mortality in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Life Span Study

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 689-694

  Sauvaget, Catherine ^a   Nagano, J ^a,b   Hayashi, M ^a   Spencer, E ^c   Shimizu, Y ^a   Allen, N ^c  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Diet; Fruit and vegetables; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESPAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; VEGETABLE;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0037430026     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600775     Document Type: Article

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