Fat accumulation in adipose tissues as a risk factor for the development of endometrial cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-71

  Nakamura, Keiichiro ^a   Hongo, Atsushi ^a   Kodama, Junichi ^a   Hiramatsu, Yuji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal obesity; Endometrial cancer; Fat accumulation in adipose tissues

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID STORAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955865491     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2011.1259     Document Type: Article

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