Obesity and cancer risk: a Danish record-linkage study.

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Published in Eur J Cancer on January 01, 1994

Authors

H Møller1, A Mellemgaard, K Lindvig, J H Olsen

Author Affiliations

1: Unit of Carcinogen Identification and Evaluation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

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