Systematic review of the relation between smokeless tobacco and cancer of the pancreas in Europe and North America

BMC Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sponsiello Wang, Zheng ^a   Weitkunat, Rolf ^a   Lee, Peter N ^b  

^a Philip Morris Products SA   (Switzerland)

^b P N Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; META ANALYSIS; PANCREAS TUMOR;

EUROPE; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 58149345219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-356     Document Type: Article

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