Adherence to the European Code Against Cancer in relation to long-term cancer mortality: Intercohort comparisons from the Seven Countries Study

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-20

  Ocké, Marga C ^a   Bas Bueno de Mesquita, H Bas ^a   Feskens, Edith J M ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^a   Menotti, Alessandro ^b   Blackburn, Henry ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; EUROPE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 2642632768     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589809514634     Document Type: Article

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