UV, latitude, and spatial trends in prostate cancer mortality: All sunlight is not the same (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1091-1101

  Schwartz, Gary G ^a   Hanchette, Carol L ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prostate cancer; Sunlight; Ultraviolet radiation; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LATITUDE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUNLIGHT; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33747883422     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-006-0050-6     Document Type: Article

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