Education and risk of cancer in a large cohort of men and women in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Mouw, Traci ^a   Koster, Annemarie ^b,c   Wright, Margaret E ^d   Blank, Madeleine M ^e   Moore, Steven C ^e   Hollenbeck, Albert ^f   Schatzkin, Arthur ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f AARP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; PLEURA CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANIMALS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56149116628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003639     Document Type: Article

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