The association of solar ultraviolet B (UVB) with reducing risk of cancer: Multifactorial ecologic analysis of geographic variation in age-adjusted cancer mortality rates

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4 A, 2006, Pages 2687-2699

  Grant, William B ^a   Garland, Cedric F ^b  

^a Sunlight   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Hispanic; Poverty; Smoking; Urbanization; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; URBANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 33644815537     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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