Birth weight and subsequent risk of cancer

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 538-543

  Spracklen, Cassandra N ^a   Wallace, Robert B ^a   Sealy Jefferson, Shawnita ^b   Robinson, Jennifer G ^a   Freudenheim, Jo L ^c   Wellons, Melissa F ^d   Saftlas, Audrey F ^a   Snetselaar, Linda G ^a   Manson, JoAnn E ^e   Hou, Lifang ^f   Qi, Lihong ^g   Chlebowski, Rowan T ^h   Ryckman, Kelli K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Breast neoplasms; Colorectal neoplasms; Endometrial neoplasms; Leukemia; Lung neoplasms; Neoplasms; Ovarian neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; AGED; FOLLOW UP; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK;

AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 84908092210     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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