Abstract
At the Third International Selenium Symposium held in Beijing in 1984, I presented a talk entitled, “Susceptibility of Mammary Carcinogenesis in Response to Dietary Selenium Levels” (Ip 1987). Since the current lecture is going to discuss new developments from our laboratory in the past few years, including both published and unpublished data, a brief review and update of the Beijing presentation would be relevant to serve as background materials.
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Ip, C. (1989). Is Selenium Metabolism Necessary for Its Anticarcinogenic Activity?. In: Wendel, A. (eds) Selenium in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74421-1_58
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