A review: Obesity and screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer in women

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1892-1904

  Cohen, Sarah S ^a,b   Palmieri, Rachel T ^a   Nyante, Sarah J ^a   Koralek, Daniel O ^a,c   Kim, Sangmi ^a   Bradshaw, Patrick ^a   Olshan, Andrew F ^a,c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Colonoscopy; Literature review; Mammogram; Obesity; Occult blood; Papanicolaou smear; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBESITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42449135703     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23408     Document Type: Review

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