Metabolic Syndrome Is Also a Risk Factor for Primary Liver Cancer in Patients Younger than 65 Years of Age?

Hepatology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2278-2279

  Montella, Maurizio ^a   Polesel, Jerry ^b   Talamini, Renato ^b   Crispo, Anna ^a   Giudice, Aldo ^a   Izzo, Francesco ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; ITALY; LETTER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT TUMOR; FEMALE; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NOTE;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X;

EID: 82455164292     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.24643     Document Type: Letter

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