Commentary: Progress of a paradigm

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 220-222

  Garland, Cedric F ^a,b   Garland, Frank C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN; VITAMIN D;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; NOTE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATOSPHERE; SUN EXPOSURE; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33645809346     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi230     Document Type: Note

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