Height and the survival of prostate cancer patients

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-218

  Chen, Honglei ^a,b   Miller, Barry A ^b   Giovannucci, Edward ^a   Hayes, Richard B ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037357911     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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