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Alcohol consumption, finasteride, and prostate cancer risk

Results from the prostate cancer prevention trial

  1. Zhihong Gong PhD1,†,*,
  2. Alan R. Kristal DrPH2,3,
  3. Jeannette M. Schenk MS2,3,
  4. Catherine M. Tangen DrPH2,
  5. Phyllis J. Goodman MS2,
  6. Ian M. Thompson MD4

Article first published online: 13 JUL 2009

DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24423

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Cancer

Cancer

Volume 115, Issue 16, pages 3661–3669, 15 August 2009

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Gong, Z., Kristal, A. R., Schenk, J. M., Tangen, C. M., Goodman, P. J. and Thompson, I. M. (2009), Alcohol consumption, finasteride, and prostate cancer risk. Cancer, 115: 3661–3669. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24423

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California

  2. 2

    Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

  3. 3

    Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

  4. 4

    Department of Urology, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Texas

  1. †

    Fax: (415) 563-4602

*Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 280, San Francisco, CA 94118-1944

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 AUG 2009
  2. Article first published online: 13 JUL 2009
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 15 JAN 2009
  4. Manuscript Revised: 9 JAN 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 14 NOV 2008

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  • National Institutes of Health grants. Grant Numbers: U10 CA37429, P50-CA97186, PO1 CA108964

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