Current perspective on the global and United States cancer burden attributable to lifestyle and environmental risk factors

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-117

  Schottenfeld, David ^a,b   Beebe Dimmer, Jennifer L ^d,e   Buffler, Patricia A ^a   Omenn, Gilbert S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Medical School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer epidemiology; Cancer prevention; Multistep carcinogenesis; Population attributable fractions

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLADDER CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY PELVIS CANCER; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MOUTH CANCER; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SOLAR RADIATION; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; T CELL LEUKEMIA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; URETER CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875417532     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114350     Document Type: Review

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