Pickled vegetables and the risk of oesophageal cancer: A meta-analysis

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1641-1647

  Islami, F ^a,b,c   Ren, J S ^d   Taylor, P R ^d   Kamangar, F ^a,d,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control; Cohort; Meta analysis; Oesophageal cancer; Pickled vegetable

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; MUTAGENESIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VEGETABLE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; RISK; VEGETABLES;

EID: 70350645440     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605372     Document Type: Article

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