A nationwide population-based cohort study: Will anxiety disorders increase subsequent cancer risk?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Liang, Ji An ^a,b   Sun, Li Min ^c   Su, Kuan Pin ^a,b   Chang, Shih Ni ^a,d,e   Sung, Fung Chang ^a,d   Muo, Chih Hsin ^a,d   Kao, Chia Hung ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ZUOYING ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE TUMOR; RISK; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84860424865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036370     Document Type: Article

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