Oral Oncology
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 85-89 , January 2009

Diet diversity and the risk of laryngeal cancer: A case–control study from Italy and Switzerland

  • Werner Garavello

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
    • Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, DNTB, Università Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
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  • Ersilia Lucenteforte

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 02 39014 652; fax: +39 02 33200 231.
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  • Cristina Bosetti

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
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  • Renato Talamini

      Affiliations

    • Servizio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (PN), Italy
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  • Fabio Levi

      Affiliations

    • Unité d’épidémiologie du cancer, Institut de Médicine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Alessandra Tavani

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
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  • Silvia Franceschi

      Affiliations

    • International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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  • Eva Negri

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
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  • Carlo La Vecchia

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Via La Masa 19, 20156 Milan, Italy
    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, “G.A. Maccacaro”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Received 14 January 2008 ,Revised 22 February 2008 ,Accepted 25 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2008.02.011

Oral Oncology
Volume 45, Issue 1 , Pages 85-89 , January 2009

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