Achievements and future of nutritional cancer epidemiology

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1531-1537

  Miller, Anthony B ^a   Linseisen, Jakob ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Colon cancer; Diet; Epidemiology; Fruits and vegetables; Lung cancer; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET THERAPY; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FRUIT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METABOLOMICS; NEOPLASM; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY; URINALYSIS; VEGETABLE; DIET; REVIEW;

DIET; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77449096050     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25006     Document Type: Short Survey

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