What links obesity to cancer?

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 527-532

  Yumuk, V D ^a   Yumuk, P F ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diet; Exercise; IGF 1; Insulin; Leptin; Obesity; Sex hormones; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; AROMATASE; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND; ANGIOGENESIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL GROWTH; COLON CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXERCISE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY CANCER; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OBESITY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STROMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 29144482933     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X04059284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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