Height, urban-born and prostate cancer risk in Japanese men

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-213

  Minami, Yuko ^a,c   Tochigi, Tatsuo ^b   Kawamura, Sadafumi ^b   Tateno, Hiroo ^c   Hoshi, Shigeko ^b   Nishino, Yoshikazu ^c   Kuwahara, Masaaki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Cancer Center   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Case control study; Growth; Height; Japanese; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BODY HEIGHT; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; URBAN AREA; CANCER STAGING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; JAPAN; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK; STATISTICS; STOMACH TUMOR; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; BODY HEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 40749142830     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hym170     Document Type: Article

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