A prospective study of obesity and cancer risk (Sweden)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-21

  Wolk, Alicja ^a   Gridley, Gloria ^b   Svensson, Malin ^a   Nyrén, Olof ^a   McLaughlin, Joseph K ^c   Fraumeni, Joseph F ^b   Adami, Hans Olov ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort; Neoplasms; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 0035146815     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008995217664     Document Type: Article

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