Correlations between meteorological parameters and prostate cancer
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Correlations between meteorological parameters and prostate cancer
BACKGROUND There exists a north-south pattern to the distribution of prostate cancer in the U.S., with the north having higher rates than the south. The current hypothesis for the spatial pattern of this disease is low vitamin D levels in individuals living at northerly latitudes; however, this explanation only partially explains the spatial distribution in the incidence of this cancer. Using a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-9-19