Possible relation between hypertension and cancers of the renal pelvis and ureter

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 265-268

  Liaw, Kai Li ^a   Linet, Martha S ^a   Mclaughlin, Joseph K ^b   Yu, Mimi C ^c   Schoenberg, Janet B ^d   Lynch, Charles F ^e   Niwa, Shelley ^a,f   Fraumeni, Joseph F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f WESTAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY PELVIS CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URETER CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIURETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; URETERAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031030256     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970127)70:3<265::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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