Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 1 , Pages 113-118 , January 2007

Methionine and Vitamin B6 Intake and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: A Prospective Study of Swedish Women and Men

  • Susanna C. Larsson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Susanna C. Larsson, PhD, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 210, SE - 17177 Stockholm, Sweden. fax: (46) 8-304571.
    • ,
  • Edward Giovannucci

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, and Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Alicja Wolk

      Affiliations

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

Received 6 August 2006 ,Accepted 21 September 2006.

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 Supported by research grants from the Swedish Cancer Foundation and the Swedish Research Council/Longitudinal Studies.

PII: S0016-5085(06)02240-2

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.10.017

Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 1 , Pages 113-118 , January 2007

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