Are racial disparities in pancreatic cancer explained by smoking and overweight/obesity?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2397-2405

  Arnold, Lauren D ^a,d   Patel, Alpa V ^b   Yan, Yan ^a,c   Jacobs, Eric J ^b   Thun, Michael J ^b   Calle, Eugenia E ^b   Colditz, Graham A ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349323504     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0080     Document Type: Article

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