Obesity that makes kidney cancer more likely but helps fight it more strongly

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 105, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 1848-1849

  Li, Lin ^a,b,c   Kalantar Zadeh, Kamyar ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; OBESITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84891467816     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djt348     Document Type: Editorial

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