Emerging from the shadows: A possible link between sleep apnea and cancer

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 363-364

  Kim, Richard ^a   Kapur, Vishesh K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; HYPOXEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY DISTURBANCE INDEX; SAMPLE SIZE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TUMOR GROWTH; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; STROKE;

HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STROKE;

EID: 84898878420     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.3602     Document Type: Note

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