Growth hormone, the insulin-like growth factor axis, insulin and cancer risk

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-24

  Clayton, Peter E ^a   Banerjee, Indraneel ^a   Murray, Philip G ^a   Renehan, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; INSULIN GLARGINE; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ACROMEGALY; ANGIOGENESIS; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN TREATMENT; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKEMIA; METASTASIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; NOONAN SYNDROME; OBESITY; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVIEW; SHORT STATURE; SKIN TUMOR; SOLID TUMOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; TURNER SYNDROME; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ANIMALS; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MICE; NEOPLASMS; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 78650310616     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2010.171     Document Type: Review

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