Weight cycling and cancer: Weighing the evidence of intermittent caloric restriction and cancer risk

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1736-1742

  Thompson, Henry J ^a   McTiernan, Anne ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE;

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CANCER; CYCLING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PANCREAS CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SHORT SURVEY; THERAPY EFFECT; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT CYLCING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 81555222626     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0133     Document Type: Short Survey

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