Weight change and cancer risk in a cohort of more than 65 000 adults in Austria

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 641-648

  Rapp, Kilian ^a   Klenk, J ^a   Ulmer, H ^b,c   Concin, H ^b   Diem, G ^b   Oberaigner, W ^d   Schroeder, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b AGENCY FOR PREVENTIVE AND SOCIAL MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d Tyrolean State Hospitals Ltd   (Austria)

^e IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Epidemiology; Ovarian cancer; Prostate cancer; Weight change

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVERWEIGHT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 41549088287     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm549     Document Type: Article

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