Anogenital distance and the risk of prostate cancer

BJU International

Volumn 110, Issue 11 B, 2012, Pages

  Castaño Vinyals, Gemma ^a,b,c   Carrasco, Estela ^a,b,c   Lorente, José Antonio ^d   Sabaté, Yasmin ^a,b,c   Cirac Claveras, Judith ^a,b,c   Pollán, Marina ^c,e   Kogevinas, Manolis ^a,b,c,f  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d Parc de Salut Mar   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^f NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anogenital distance; Case control study; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ANUS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PENIS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCROTUM; SPAIN; ANAL CANAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ANAL CANAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876438091     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11516.x     Document Type: Article

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