Smoking, plasma vitamins C, E, retinol, and carotene, and fatal prostate cancer: Seventeen-year follow-up of the prospective Basel study

Prostate

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 189-198

  Eichholzer, Monika ^a   Stähelin, Hannes B ^b   Lüdin, Eric ^c   Bernasconi, Florence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Geriatrische Universitatsklinik   (Switzerland)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Plasma antioxidant vitamins; Prostate cancer mortality; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENE; RETINOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SMOKING; SWITZERLAND; TOBACCO; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOIDS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVORS; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E; VITAMINS;

EID: 0345369343     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19990215)38:3<189::AID-PROS3>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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