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Tall height and obesity are associated with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer: results from the EPIC cohort study

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The relationships between body size and prostate cancer risk, and in particular risk by tumour characteristics, are not clear because most studies have not differentiated between tumours that are high grade and those that are advanced stage, but rather have assessed risk with a combined category of aggressive disease. We investigated the association of height and adiposity with incidence of and death from prostate cancer in 141,896 men in the European Prospective Inves...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1186/s12916-017-0876-7

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Sub department:
Cancer Epidemiology Unit
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Sub department:
Cancer Epidemiology Unit
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BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
BMC Medicine Journal website
Volume:
15
Pages:
115
Publication date:
2017-07-01
Acceptance date:
2017-05-16
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EISSN:
1741-7015
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pubs:695483
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uuid:05972935-882e-45bf-b5fb-f8ff0a799a53
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pubs:695483
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2017-05-16

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