Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in a large prospective study of women in the United Kingdom

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2321-2326

  Bradbury, K E ^a,d   Balkwill, A ^a   Spencer, E A ^b   Roddam, A W ^c   Reeves, G K ^a   Green, J ^a   Key, T J ^a   Pirie, Kirstin ^a,d   Banks, Emily ^d   Beral, Valerie ^d   English, Ruth ^d   Green, Jane ^d   Patnick, Julietta ^d   Peto, Richard ^d   Reeves, Gillian ^d   Vessey, Martin ^d   Wallis, Matthew ^d   Abbiss, Hayley ^d   Abbott, Simon ^d   Armstrong, Miranda ^d   Balkwill, Angela ^d   Benson, Vicky ^d   Black, Judith ^d   Brown, Anna ^d   Cairns, Benjamin ^d   Canfell, Karen ^d   Canoy, Dexter ^d   Crossley, Barbara ^d   Crowe, Francesca ^d   Ewart, Dave ^d   Ewart, Sarah ^d   Fletcher, Lee ^d   Floud, Sarah ^d   Gathani, Toral ^d   Gerrard, Laura ^d   Goodill, Adrian ^d   Guiver, Lynden ^d   Lingard, Isobel ^d   Kan, Sau Wan ^d   Kirichek, Oksana ^d   Kroll, Mary ^d   Langston, Nicky ^d   Liu, Bette ^d   Luque, Maria Jose ^d   Moser, Kath ^d   Pank, Lynn ^d   Shaw, Keith ^d   Sherman, Emma ^d   Sherry Starmer, Evie ^d   Strange, Helena ^d   Sweetland, Sian ^d   Timadjer, Alison ^d   Tipper, Sarah ^d   Travis, Ruth ^d   Wright, Lucy ^d   Yang, Owen ^d   Young, Heather ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

cancer; cohort; organic food; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ORGANIC FOOD; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERUS CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOOD, ORGANIC; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84899986806     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.148     Document Type: Article

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