Cigarette smoking and colorectal cancer mortality among 602,242 Norwegian males and females

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 137-145

  Parajuli, Ranjan ^a   Bjerkaas, Eivind ^a   Tverdal, Aage ^b   Marchand, Loïc Le ^c   Weiderpass, Elisabete ^a,d,e   Gram, Inger T ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Department of Genetic Epidemiology Samfundet Folkhälsan ^*  (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Cohort study; Colorectal cancer; Mortality; Norway; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 84898721410     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S58722     Document Type: Article

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