Longitudinal biological exposure to carotenoids is associated with breast cancer-free survival in the women's healthy eating and living study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 486-494

  Rock, Cheryl L ^a,g   Natarajan, Loki ^a   Pu, Minya ^a   Thomson, Cynthia A ^b   Flatt, Shirley W ^a   Caan, Bette J ^c   Gold, Ellen B ^d   Al Delaimy, Wael K ^a   Newman, Vicky A ^a   Hajek, Richard A ^e   Stefanick, Marcia L ^f   Pierce, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAROTENOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAROTENOIDS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DIET RECORDS; DIET, VEGETARIAN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 60549083101     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0809     Document Type: Article

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