Consumption of aspartame-containing beverages and incidence of hematopoietic and brain malignancies

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1654-1659

  Lim, Unhee ^a   Subar, Amy F ^a   Mouw, Traci ^a   Hartge, Patricia ^a   Morton, Lindsay M ^a   Stolzenberg Solomon, Rachael ^a   Campbell, David ^b   Hollenbeck, Albert R ^c   Schatzkin, Arthur ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC   (United States)

^c AARP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BODY MASS; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COFFEE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOMA; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM TUMOR; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEA;

AGED; ASPARTAME; BEVERAGES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33749335646     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0203     Document Type: Article

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