Plasma carotenoids and risk of breast cancer over 20 y of follow-up

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1197-1205

  Eliassen, A Heather ^a,b   Liao, Xiaomei ^a,b   Rosner, Bernard ^a,b   Tamimi, Rulla M ^a,b   Tworoger, Shelley S ^a,b   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Breast cancer; Carotenoids; Nested case control study; Plasma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CRYPTOXANTHIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LYCOPENE; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN; ALPHA-CAROTENE; CAROTENOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMINAL A BREAST CANCER; LUMINAL B BREAST CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME; BLOOD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FRUIT; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VEGETABLE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA CAROTENE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAROTENOIDS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRUIT; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84930444311     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.114.105080     Document Type: Article

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