Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 343-348 , May 2010

Nutrient-based dietary patterns and the risk of oral and pharyngeal cancer

  • Valeria Edefonti

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria ‘Giulio A. Maccacaro’, Università degli Studi di Milano, via A. Vanzetti, 5, 20133 Milano, Italy
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  • Francesca Bravi

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria ‘Giulio A. Maccacaro’, Università degli Studi di Milano, via A. Vanzetti, 5, 20133 Milano, Italy
    • Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, via G. La Masa, 19, 20156 Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Carlo La Vecchia

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria ‘Giulio A. Maccacaro’, Università degli Studi di Milano, via A. Vanzetti, 5, 20133 Milano, Italy
    • Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, via G. La Masa, 19, 20156 Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, via G. La Masa, 19, 20156 Milano, Italy. Tel.: +39 0239014328; fax: +39 0233200231.
    • ,
  • Giorgia Randi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, via G. La Masa, 19, 20156 Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Monica Ferraroni

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Medicina, Chirurgia e Odontoiatria, Università degli Studi di Milano, via A. Di Rudinı`, 8, 20142 Milano, Italy
    • ,
  • Werner Garavello

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Epidemiologia, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘Mario Negri’, via G. La Masa, 19, 20156 Milano, Italy
    • Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, DNTB, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, via G. Donizetti 106, 20052 Monza, Italy
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  • Silvia Franceschi

      Affiliations

    • International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours A. Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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  • Renato Talamini

      Affiliations

    • SOC Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, via F. Gallini, 2, 33081 Aviano, Italy
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  • Paolo Boffetta

      Affiliations

    • International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France
    • The Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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  • Adriano Decarli

      Affiliations

    • Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria ‘Giulio A. Maccacaro’, Università degli Studi di Milano, via A. Vanzetti, 5, 20133 Milano, Italy
    • S. C. Statistica Medica, Biometria e Bioinformatica, Fondazione IRCSS Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Milano, via A. Vanzetti, 5, 20133 Milano, Italy

Received 30 October 2009 ,Revised 16 November 2009 ,Accepted 16 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2009.11.017

Oral Oncology
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 343-348 , May 2010

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