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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press.
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Re: Prospective Studies of Dairy Product and Calcium Intakes and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis
Affiliations of authors: Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (GS, DRE, GGG); Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne, Australia (GS, DRE, JLH; GGG)
Correspondence to: Gianluca Severi, PhD, Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, 100 Drummond St., Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia (e-mail: Gianluca.Severi@cancervic.org.au).
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In their meta-analysis, Gao et al. (1) concluded that "High intake of dairy products and calcium may be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer, although the increase appears to be small." We report findings from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS), a prospective study of 41 528 people (17 049 men) who were 2775 years old at baseline (99.3%
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 98: 795.
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