The role of flaxseed lignans in hormone-dependent and independent cancer

Flax: The Genus Linum

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 181-203

  Rickard Bon, Sharon E ^a   Thompson, Lilian U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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