Personality traits, health behavior, and risk for cancer: A prospective study of a Swedish twin cohort

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1082-1091

  Hansen, Pernille Envold ^a   Floderus, Birgitta ^b   Frederiksen, Kirsten ^a   Johansen, Christoffer ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Etiology; Extroversion; Neuroticism; Personality; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HORMONAL CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; TWIN ZYGOSITY; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 13944277108     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20871     Document Type: Article

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