Re: Overview of the cohort consortium vitamin d pooling project of rarer cancers

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1210-1211

  Grant, William B ^a  

^a Sunlight Nutrition and Health Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; VITAMIN D;

BILE DUCT CANCER; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; IRRADIATION; KIDNEY CANCER; LETTER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RARE DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 78149353344     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq301     Document Type: Letter

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