Vitamin D, ecologic studies and endometrial cancer

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 323-324

  Schwartz, Gary G ^a   Porta, Miquel ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 35648946817     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.03.005     Document Type: Editorial

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