Genital and urinary tract diseases and prostate cancer risk

European Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 254-257

  Pelucchi, Claudio ^a,d   Talamini, Renato ^b   Negri, Eva ^a   Franceschi, Silvia ^c   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Prostatic diseases; Prostatic neoplasms; Risk factors; Sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTITIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTITIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATITIS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URINARY CALCULI; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 33646941042     PISSN: 09598278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.cej.0000198897.40303.d4     Document Type: Article

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