A review of NCI's extramural grant portfolio: Identifying opportunities for future research in genes and environment in cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 501-507

  Ghazarian, Armen A ^a,b   Simonds, Naoko I ^a   Bennett, Kelly ^a,c   Pimentel, Camilla B ^a,d   Ellison, Gary L ^a   Gillanders, Elizabeth M ^a   Schully, Sheri D ^a   Mechanic, Leah E ^a  

^a Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MELANOMA; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARMACOGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLICATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SKIN CANCER; SOMATIC MUTATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876585483     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0156     Document Type: Article

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