Citrus fruit and cancer risk in a network of case-control studies

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-242

  Foschi, Roberto ^a   Pelucchi, Claudio ^a   Dal Maso, Luigino ^b   Rossi, Marta ^a   Levi, Fábio ^c   Talamini, Renato ^b   Bosetti, Cristina ^a   Negri, Eva ^a   Serraino, Diego ^b   Giacosa, Attilio ^d   Franceschi, Silvia ^e   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,f  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d Policlinico di Monza ^*  (Italy)

^e INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Citrus; Epidemiology; Neoplasms; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CITRUS FRUIT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; KIDNEY CANCER; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; SWITZERLAND;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CITRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77950691556     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9454-4     Document Type: Article

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