Tea drinking habits and oesophageal cancer in a high risk area in northern Iran: Population based case-control study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7699, 2009, Pages 876-879

  Islami, Farhad ^a,b,c   Pourshams, Akram ^a   Nasrollahzadeh, Dariush ^a,d   Kamangar, Farin ^e   Fahimi, Saman ^a,f   Shakeri, Ramin ^a   Abedi Ardekani, Behnoush ^a   Merat, Shahin ^a   Vahedi, Homayoon ^a   Semnani, Shahryar ^g   Abnet, Christian C ^e   Brennan, Paul ^b   Møller, Henrik ^c   Saidi, Farrokh ^a   Dawsey, Sanford M ^e   Malekzadeh, Reza ^a   Boffetta, Paolo ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TEA; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TEA;

EID: 67649240629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b929     Document Type: Article

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