Smoking and body mass index as risk factors for subtypes of cancer of unknown primary

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 246-247

  Hemminki, Kari ^a,b   Chen, Bowang ^a   Melander, Olle ^b   Manjer, Jonas ^b,c   Hallmans, Göran ^d   Hemminki, Akseli ^e  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; BODY MASS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LETTER; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RISK; SECONDARY;

BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84925286335     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28969     Document Type: Letter

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