Attained height, sex, and risk of cancer at different anatomic sites in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1697-1706

  Kabat, Geoffrey C ^a   Kim, Mimi Y ^a   Hollenbeck, Albert R ^b   Rohan, Thomas E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AARP   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult height; Cancer sites; Insulin like growth factor 1; Modifying factors; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; ELDERLY CARE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911807820     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-014-0476-1     Document Type: Article

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