Journal article

Body Size, Weight Change, and Risk of Colon Cancer

Julie K Bassett, Gianluca Severi, Dallas R English, Laura Baglietto, Kavitha Krishnan, John L Hopper, Graham G Giles

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention | AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH | Published : 2010

DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0543

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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

Cohort recruitment was funded by VicHealth and The Cancer Council Victoria. This work was supported by infrastructure from the Cancer Council Victoria and grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (209057 and 251533).

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Keywords

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Body Mass Index
Swedish Men
Adult
Longitudinal Follow-Up
Obesity
Proportional Hazards Models
Mass-Index
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Female
Sex-Steroid-Hormones
Colonic Neoplasms
Male
Metabolic Syndrome
Colorectal-Cancer
Science & Technology
Aged
Middle Aged
Humans
Oncology
Insulin-Resistance
Risk Factors
Weight Gain
Waist Circumference
Rectal-Cancer
Visceral Adipose-Tissue
Body Size