Family history and the risk of kidney cancer: A multicenter case-control study in Central Europe

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1287-1290

  Hung, Rayjean J ^a,b   Moore, Lee ^c   Boffetta, Paolo ^a   Feng, Bing Jian ^a   Toro, Jorge R ^c   Rothman, Nathanial ^c   Zaridze, David ^d   Navratilova, Marie ^e   Bencko, Vladimir ^f   Janout, Vladimir ^g   Kollarova, Helena ^g   Szeszenia Dabrowska, Neonila ^h   Mates, Dana ⁱ   Chow, Wong Ho ^c   Brennan, Paul ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d N N BLOKHIN RUSSIAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^e MASARYK MEMORIAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^f CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUROPE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBLING; SMOKING;

EID: 34250803972     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0963     Document Type: Article

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