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Food groups and risk of squamous cell esophageal cancer in Northern Italy

  1. Cristina Bosetti1,2,*,
  2. Carlo La Vecchia1,2,3,
  3. Renato Talamini4,
  4. Lorenzo Simonato5,
  5. Paola Zambon5,
  6. Eva Negri1,
  7. Dimitrios Trichopoulos2,6,
  8. Pagona Lagiou6,
  9. Romeo Bardini7,
  10. Silvia Franceschi4

Article first published online: 15 JUN 2000

DOI: 10.1002/1097-0215(20000715)87:2<289::AID-IJC22>3.0.CO;2-9

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International Journal of Cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volume 87, Issue 2, pages 289–294, 15 July 2000

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Bosetti, C., La Vecchia, C., Talamini, R., Simonato, L., Zambon, P., Negri, E., Trichopoulos, D., Lagiou, P., Bardini, R. and Franceschi, S. (2000), Food groups and risk of squamous cell esophageal cancer in Northern Italy. Int. J. Cancer, 87: 289–294. doi: 10.1002/1097-0215(20000715)87:2<289::AID-IJC22>3.0.CO;2-9

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  1. 1

    Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy

  2. 2

    Department of Epidemiology and Center for Cancer Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

  3. 3

    Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

  4. 4

    Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (PN), Italy

  5. 5

    Servizio di Epidemiologia dei Tumori, Registro dei Tumori del Veneto, Padova, Italy

  6. 6

    Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Goudi, Athens, Greece

  7. 7

    Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Gastroenterologiche, Clinica Chirurgica Generale I, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

*Laboratory of General Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Eritrea 62. I-20157 Milan, Italy. Fax: +39-02-33200231

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 JUN 2000
  2. Article first published online: 15 JUN 2000
  3. Manuscript Revised: 27 DEC 1999
  4. Manuscript Received: 7 OCT 1999

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  • Italian Association for Cancer Research, Milan
  • International Olive Oil Council, Madrid

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