Height and cancer: consistent links, but mechanisms unclear

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 716-717

  Renehan, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN C;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILD GROWTH; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEG LENGTH; LETTER; LEUKEMIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SMOKING;

BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79960894307     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70193-0     Document Type: Letter

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