Lifestyle, Diet, and Colorectal Cancer Risk According to (Epi)genetic Instability: Current Evidence and Future Directions of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology

Current Colorectal Cancer Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 455-469

  Hughes, Laura A E ^a   Simons, Colinda C J M ^a   van den Brandt, Piet A ^a   van Engeland, Manon ^a   Weijenberg, Matty P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Diet; Lifestyle; Molecular pathological epidemiology; Review

Indexed keywords

OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY BALANCE; EPIGENETICS; FRUIT; GENE MUTATION; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; ONCOGENE K RAS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POINT MUTATION; PROCESSED MEAT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; VEGETABLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

EID: 85035781511     PISSN: 15563790     EISSN: 15563804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11888-017-0395-0     Document Type: Review

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