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Micronutrients and cancer aetiology: the epidemiological evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Timothy Key
Affiliation:
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Gibson Building, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE
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Abstract

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Type
‘Newer aspects of micronutrients’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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