Reply to differences in vitamin D status likely explain racial disparities in breast cancer mortality rates in the southeast

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 4364-

  Adams, Swann Arp ^a   Steck, Susan E ^a   Hébert, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL; TUMOR MARKER; VITAMIN D;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LETTER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN METABOLISM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NOTE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84865346009     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27383     Document Type: Letter

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