A case-control study of prostate cancer (PC) was undertaken in Athens, Greece. Cases were 320 patients with histologically confirmed incident disease, whereas controls were 246 patients without history or symptomatology of benign prostatic hyperplasia, treated in the same hospitals as the cases for
Dietary factors and gastric cancer risk. A case-control study in Spain
✍ Scribed by Jose M. Ramón; Luis Serra; Carlos Cerdó; Joaquin Oromí
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 429 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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