Is personality associated with cancer incidence and mortality¿ An individual-participant meta-analysis of 2156 incident cancer cases among 42 843 men and women

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1820-1824

  Jokela, M ^a,b   Batty, G D ^c,d   Hintsa, T ^a   Elovainio, M ^a,e   Hakulinen, C ^a   Kivimaki M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

big five; cancer; meta analysis; personality; psychosomatic medicine

Indexed keywords

AGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; EXTRAVERSION; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; META ANALYSIS; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SKIN CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; MALE; PERSONALITY;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84897576922     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.58     Document Type: Article

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