Alcohol, breast cancer, and causal inference;Alkohol, brystkreft og årsaksslutning i epidemiologien

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening

Volumn 117, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 3771-3776

  Kjærheim, Kristina ^a,b  

^a Kreftregisteret   (Norway)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

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Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17544386961     PISSN: 00292001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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