Obesity: Too big a problem to ignore

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 274-276

  Secord, Angeles Alvarez ^a   Gehrig, Paola A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COLON CARCINOMA; COUNSELING; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; OBESITY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE;

EID: 84862893859     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.04.033     Document Type: Editorial

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