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