European Journal of Cancer
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1079-1085 , April 2010

Dietary carotenoids and risk of hormone receptor-defined breast cancer in a prospective cohort of Swedish women

  • Susanna C. Larsson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Address: Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 210, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8 52486059; fax: +46 8 304571.
    • ,
  • Leif Bergkvist

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Centre for Clinical Research, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden
    • ,
  • Alicja Wolk

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Received 4 November 2009 ,Revised 25 December 2009 ,Accepted 6 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2010.01.004

European Journal of Cancer
Volume 46, Issue 6 , Pages 1079-1085 , April 2010

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