Nutritional Strategies for Breast Cancer Prevention: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here?

Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1782-1785

  Forman, Michele R ^a   Ballard Barbash, Rachel ^a   Kipnis, Victor ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; DIET; FAT INTAKE; FRUIT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NUTRITION; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; VEGETABLE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIET, FAT-RESTRICTED; DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; FRUIT; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0142243224     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11732     Document Type: Review

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