Advancing the calcium-colorectal cancer hypothesis

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 893-894

  Schatzkin, Arthur ^a,b   Peters, Ulrike ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Nutritional Epidemiology Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BILE ACID; CALCIUM; FAT; FATTY ACID; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR; CASR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CALCIUM INTAKE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPLEX FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIETARY FIBER; DOSE RESPONSE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ANIMALS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL TRIALS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, CALCIUM-SENSING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 2942652878     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djh190     Document Type: Editorial

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