Asthma, asthma medications, and prostate cancer risk

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2318-2324

  Severi, Gianluca ^a,b   Baglietto, Laura ^a,b   Muller, David C ^a,b   English, Dallas R ^a,b   Jenkins, Mark A ^b   Abramson, Michael J ^c   Douglass, Jo A ^d   Hopper, John L ^b   Giles, Graham G ^a,b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77956501268     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0381     Document Type: Article

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