Oral Oncology
Volume 39, Issue 7 , Pages 695-700 , October 2003

Coffee and tea intake and risk of oral, pharyngeal and esophageal cancer

  • Alessandra Tavani

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39-02-3901-4460; fax: +39-02-3900-1916
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  • Michaela Bertuzzi

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
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  • Renato Talamini

      Affiliations

    • Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (Pordenone), Italy
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  • Silvano Gallus

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
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  • Maria Parpinel

      Affiliations

    • Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (Pordenone), Italy
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  • Silvia Franceschi

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Epidemiology Unit and International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon Cedex, France
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  • Fabio Levi

      Affiliations

    • Registre Vaudois des Tumeurs, Institut universitaire de médicine sociale et préventive, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Carlo La Vecchia

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy
    • Istituto di Statistica Medicae Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Received 2 April 2003 ,Accepted 3 April 2003.

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PII: S1368-8375(03)00081-2

doi: 10.1016/S1368-8375(03)00081-2

Oral Oncology
Volume 39, Issue 7 , Pages 695-700 , October 2003

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