Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 355-362 , November 2009

Total fluid and specific beverage intake and risk of renal cell carcinoma in Canada

  • Jinfu Hu

      Affiliations

    • Evidence and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 785 Carling Avenue, AL: 6807B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 613 957 1070; fax: +1 613 941 2633.
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  • Yang Mao

      Affiliations

    • Evidence and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 785 Carling Avenue, AL: 6807B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9
    • ,
  • Marie DesMeules

      Affiliations

    • Evidence and Risk Assessment Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, 785 Carling Avenue, AL: 6807B, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K9
    • ,
  • Ilona Csizmadi

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Care, Alberta Health Services, Canada
    • ,
  • Christine Friedenreich

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Care, Alberta Health Services, Canada
    • ,
  • Les Mery

      Affiliations

    • Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Ottawa, Canada
    • ,
  • The Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Research Group

      Affiliations

    • The Canadian Cancer Registries Epidemiology Research Group comprises a principal investigator from each of the provincial cancer registries involved in the National Enhanced Cancer Surveillance System: Bertha Paulse, Newfoundland Cancer Foundation; Ron Dewar, Nova Scotia Cancer Registry; Dagny Dryer, Prince Edward Island Cancer Registry; Nancy Kreiger, Cancer Care Ontario; Heather Whittaker, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation; Diane Robson, Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation; Shirley Fincham, Alberta Cancer Board; and Nhu Le, British Columbia Cancer Agency.

,Accepted 7 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2009.10.004

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 355-362 , November 2009

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