Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 562-567 , October 2010

Intake of dietary fats and colorectal cancer risk: Prospective findings from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium

  • Christina C. Dahm

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 2, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark. Tel.: +45 8942 6090; fax: +45 8613 1580.
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  • Ruth H. Keogh

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
    • MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, United Kingdom
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  • Marleen A.H. Lentjes

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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  • Elizabeth A. Spencer

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
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  • Tim J. Key

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
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  • Darren C. Greenwood

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Level 8, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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  • Janet E. Cade

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Level 8, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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  • Victoria J. Burley

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Level 8, Worsley Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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  • Martin J. Shipley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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  • Eric J. Brunner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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  • Alison M. Stephen

      Affiliations

    • MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge CB1 9NL, United Kingdom
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  • Gita Mishra

      Affiliations

    • MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 33 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JU, United Kingdom
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  • Diana Kuh

      Affiliations

    • MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 33 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JU, United Kingdom
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  • Ian S. Fentiman

      Affiliations

    • Academic Oncology Unit, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
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  • Ian R. White

      Affiliations

    • MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, United Kingdom
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  • Robert Luben

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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  • Kay Tee Khaw

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
    • Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
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  • Sheila A. Rodwell (Bingham)

      Affiliations

    • Medical Research Council Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, United Kingdom
    • Deceased.

,Accepted 8 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.07.008

Cancer Epidemiology
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 562-567 , October 2010

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