Vitamin D and pancreatic cancer risk in the alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene cancer prevention cohort

Cancer Research

Volumn 66, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9802-9803

  Michaud, Dominique S ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; CALCIFEDIOL; VITAMIN D;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FISH; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG CANCER; NOTE; OBESITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; BETA CAROTENE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; VITAMIN D;

EID: 33750559404     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-3193     Document Type: Note

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