Calcium, vitamin D and colorectal cancer chemoprevention

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 485-494

  Zhang, Xuehong ^a   Giovannucci, Edward ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenomas; Calcium; Case control study; Chemoprevention; Cohort study; Colorectal cancer; Dairy products; Epidemiology; Incidence; Milk; Mortality; Randomized control trial; Survival; vitamin D

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CALCIUM; CHEMOPREVENTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 82455175427     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: 15321916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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