Risk of cancer in patients with medically diagnosed hay fever or allergic rhinitis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2397-2403

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Försti, Asta ^a,b   Fallah, Mahdi ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^b,c   Sundquist, Kristina ^b,c   Ji, Jianguang ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Cancer risk; Hay fever; Immune disturbance; Standardized incidence ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MYELOMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NOSE CANCER; OUTPATIENT; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HAY FEVER; IMMUNE DISTURBANCE; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; SWEDEN;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; CANCER RISK; HAY FEVER; IMMUNE DISTURBANCE; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84909950186     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28873     Document Type: Article

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