Adult height in relation to risk of cancer in a cohort of Canadian women

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1125-1132

  Kabat, Geoffrey C ^a   Heo, Moonseong ^a   Kamensky, Victor ^a   Miller, Anthony B ^b   Rohan, Thomas E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cancer incidence; cohort studies; height

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MELANOMA; OVARY CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCTION; THYROID CANCER;

BODY HEIGHT; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84872855756     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27704     Document Type: Article

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