Cataract and ovarian carcinoma: Is the vitamin D hypothesis alive?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2507-2511

  Lurie, Galina ^a   Matsuno, Rayna K ^a   Wilkens, Lynne R ^a   Thompson, Pamela J ^a   Ollberding, Nicholas J ^a   Carney, Michael E ^b   Goodman, Marc T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OVARY CARCINOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING; THYROID DISEASE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATARACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITAMIN D;

EID: 83055198323     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0721     Document Type: Article

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