Cigarette smoking and site-specific cancer mortality: Testing uncertain associations using extended follow-up of the original Whitehall study

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 996-1002

  Batty, G David ^a   Kivimaki, M ^b   Gray, L ^a   Smith, G Davey ^c   Marmot, M G ^b   Shipley, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cigarette smoking; Cohort study; Whitehall

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPLOYEE; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; LIVER CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARRIAGE; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; LONDON; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 43049120299     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdm578     Document Type: Article

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