Red meat consumption and cancer: Reasons to suspect involvement of bovine infectious factors in colorectal cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2475-2483

  Zur Hausen, Harald ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

bovine factor; diet; red meat; virus

Indexed keywords

BEEF; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED MEAT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CATTLE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIET; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; RISK; TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

EID: 84859157322     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27413     Document Type: Review

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