Red blood cell folate and plasma folate are not associated with risk of incident colorectal cancer in the Women's Health Initiative observational study.

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Published in Int J Cancer on February 24, 2015

Authors

Marian L Neuhouser1,2, Ting-Yuan David Cheng1,2,3, Shirley A A Beresford1,2, Elissa Brown1, Xiaoling Song1, Joshua W Miller4,5, Yingye Zheng1, Cynthia A Thomson6, James M Shikany7, Mara Z Vitolins8, Thomas Rohan9, Ralph Green5, Cornelia M Ulrich1,10

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
2: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
3: Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.
4: Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
5: Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.
6: Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
7: Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
8: Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
9: Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
10: Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT.

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