ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS Alcohol Intake, Drinking Patterns, and Risk of Prostate Cancer in a Large Prospective Cohort Study

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  • Elizabeth A. Platz
  • Michael F. Leitzmann
  • Eric B. Rimm
  • Walter C. Willett
  • Edward Giovannucci
چکیده

1 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 2 Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. 3 Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. 4 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. 5 Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. 6 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004