Epidemiology Behind Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Cancer Risk with Focus on Flavonoids

Plant Phenolics and Human Health: Biochemistry, Nutrition, and Pharmacology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 471-487

  Rossi, Marta ^a   Negri, Eva ^a   Bosetti, Cristina ^a   Pelucchi, Claudio ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flavonoids having antioxidant, antimutagenic and antiproliferative properties in vitro; Flavonoids and upper digestive tract cancers; Fruit and vegetable consumption and cancer risk with focus on flavonoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889628212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470531792.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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