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Controversies surrounding diet and breast cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2008

Lenore Kohlmeier  and
Michelle Mendez
Lenore Kohlmeier
Affiliation:
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7400, USA
Michelle Mendez
Affiliation:
Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7400, USA
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Symposium on ‘Nutritional issues for women’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 1B , March 1997 , pp. 369 - 382
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