Commentary: Fat and breast cancer: time to re-evaluate both methods and results?
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Commentary: fat and breast cancer: time to re-evaluate both methods and results?
International comparisons, comparisons within countries, time trends within countries, case–control studies, and animal studies are all consistent with a positive relationship between incidence of breast cancer and fat consumption. 1 Cohort studies are normally considered free of the bias that potentially affect case–control studies, but, in contrast to expectations that a relationship would be...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyl142