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

BACKGROUND: The relationship between body size and prostate cancer risk, and in particular risk by tumour characteristics, is not clear because most studies have not differentiated between high-grade or advanced stage tumours, but rather have assessed risk with a combined category of aggressive dise...

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Published in:BMC Med
Main Authors: Perez-Cornago, Aurora, Appleby, Paul N., Pischon, Tobias, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K., Tjønneland, Anne, Olsen, Anja, Overvad, Kim, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kühn, Tilman, Boeing, Heiner, Steffen, Annika, Trichopoulou, Antonia, Lagiou, Pagona, Kritikou, Maria, Krogh, Vittorio, Palli, Domenico, Sacerdote, Carlotta, Tumino, Rosario, Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. Bas, Agudo, Antonio, Larrañaga, Nerea, Molina-Portillo, Elena, Barricarte, Aurelio, Chirlaque, Maria-Dolores, Quirós, J. Ramón, Stattin, Pär, Häggström, Christel, Wareham, Nick, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Schmidt, Julie A., Gunter, Marc, Freisling, Heinz, Aune, Dagfinn, Ward, Heather, Riboli, Elio, Key, Timothy J., Travis, Ruth C.
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508687/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28701188
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0876-7
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