Ensuring long-term sustainability of existing cohorts remains the highest priority to inform cancer prevention and control

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 649-656

  Colditz, Graham A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; Cohort; Epidemiology; Funding; Prospective; Return on investment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CALCIUM; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFESTYLE; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING CESSATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; NEOPLASM; SURVIVOR;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77955300754     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9498-5     Document Type: Review

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