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Much room for optimism on measuring diet, preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease, and correcting for measurement error – discussion of the paper by R. L. Prentice and Y. Huang

Donna Spiegelman

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

spiegelman@tom.com

Pages 14-20 | Received 31 Jul. 2018, Accepted 31 Jul. 2018, Published online: 31 Jul. 2018,
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