Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site

The relation between relative body weight and colorectal cancer among women is unclear. In a large prospective cohort study, we found a positive association only for distal cancers among younger women that became attenuated at older ages. These results support previous reports in which results were...

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Autores principales: P, Giovannucci, E, Bergkvist, L, Holmberg, L, Wolk, A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2001
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2364077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11487263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.1894
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description The relation between relative body weight and colorectal cancer among women is unclear. In a large prospective cohort study, we found a positive association only for distal cancers among younger women that became attenuated at older ages. These results support previous reports in which results were stratified by age or colorectal cancer site. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com
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spelling pubmed-23640772009-09-10 Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site P, Giovannucci, E Bergkvist, L Holmberg, L Wolk, A Br J Cancer Short Communication The relation between relative body weight and colorectal cancer among women is unclear. In a large prospective cohort study, we found a positive association only for distal cancers among younger women that became attenuated at older ages. These results support previous reports in which results were stratified by age or colorectal cancer site. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign http://www.bjcancer.com Nature Publishing Group 2001-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2364077/ /pubmed/11487263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.1894 Text en Copyright © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as 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 images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
title_full Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
title_fullStr Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
title_full_unstemmed Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
title_short Body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of Swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
title_sort body weight and colorectal cancer risk in a cohort of swedish women: relation varies by age and cancer site
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2364077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11487263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2001.1894
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