Alcohol
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 265-275 , April 2005

Epidemiologic review of marijuana use and cancer risk

  • Mia Hashibe

      Affiliations

    • International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69008 Lyon, France
    • ,
  • Kurt Straif

      Affiliations

    • International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69008 Lyon, France
    • ,
  • Donald P. Tashkin

      Affiliations

    • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1690, USA
    • ,
  • Hal Morgenstern

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA
    • ,
  • Sander Greenland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, 71-225 CHS, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA
    • Department of Statistics, UCLA College of Letters and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554, USA
    • ,
  • Zuo-Feng Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, 71-225 CHS, Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-310-825-8418; fax: +1-310-206-6039.

Received 11 February 2005 ,Revised 25 April 2005 ,Accepted 27 April 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2005.04.008

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