Commentary: Time for public health action on vitamin D for cancer risk reduction

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 224-225

  Grant, William B ^a   Gorham, Edward D ^b,c  

^a Sunlight   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; NOTE; OVARY CANCER; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33645807832     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi232     Document Type: Note

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