Doll and Peto's quantitative estimates of cancer risks: Holding generally true for 35 years

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Blot, William J ^a,b   Tarone, Robert E ^b  

^a VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CAROTENOID; HOST FACTOR; RETINOL;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CLONORCHIASIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA REPLICATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXPOSURE; FAT INTAKE; FRUIT; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; KIDNEY CANCER; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LOW FAT DIET; LUNG CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; NOTE; NUTRITION; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OVERNUTRITION; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SITTING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STOMACH CANCER; TOBACCO USE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VEGETABLE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WART VIRUS; WORKPLACE; FEMALE; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84930738140     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djv044     Document Type: Note

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