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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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Background
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
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Regional Government of Navarra
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Pages:
- 115
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-7015
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pubs:695483
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uuid:05972935-882e-45bf-b5fb-f8ff0a799a53
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- pubs:695483
- Deposit date:
- 2017-05-16
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- Perez-Cornago et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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