Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 1 , Pages 441-443 , January 2007

Methionine Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: Digesting the Evidence

  • Albert B. Lowenfels

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to Albert B. Lowenfels, MD, Department of Surgery, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595. fax: (914) 594-4576.
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  • Patrick Maisonneuve

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

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    Publication rate (by decade) for articles on diet and cancer per 10 million Medline publications: 1950–2006. The findings fit a Gompertz growth curve: slow start, then a rapid increase in the 1970s an

    Publication rate (by decade) for articles on diet and cancer per 10 million Medline publications: 1950–2006. The findings fit a Gompertz growth curve: slow start, then a rapid increase in the 1970s and 1980s, followed by a recent decrease in publication rate.

 Supported in part by grants from the C.D. Smithers Foundation and the Italian Association for Cancer Research.

PII: S0016-5085(06)02527-3

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.11.046

Gastroenterology
Volume 132, Issue 1 , Pages 441-443 , January 2007

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