Childhood cancer and vitamins: Prevention and treatment

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 442-444

  Stallings, Virginia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Prevention; Treatment; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; FOLIC ACID; IRON; NITRATE; RETINOL; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION SCIENCES; FOOD; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; VITAMINS;

EID: 37549022271     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21416     Document Type: Short Survey

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