Body size and composition and risk of rectal cancer (Australia)

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• 作者：Robert J. MacInnis ; Dallas R. English ; Andrew M. Haydon ; John L. Hopper ; Dorota M. Gertig and Graham G. Giles
• 关键词：Rectal cancer ; Anthropometry ; Bioelectrical impedance analysis ; Cohort study ; Australia
• 刊名：Cancer Causes and Control
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：December, 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：17
• 期：10
• 页码：1291-1297
• 全文大小：121 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Oncology
  Cancer Research
  Public Health
  Epidemiology
  Hematology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7225

文摘

Background Although body mass index has been shown to be associated with colon cancer, studies of rectal cancer risk have generally reported no association. The relationship between rectal cancer risk and central adiposity, overall fat mass, and fat-free mass is unknown.