Adiposity and cancer risk: new mechanistic insights from epidemiology
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Date of Publication
July 24, 2015
Publication Type
Article
Division/Institute
Series
Nature reviews - cancer
ISSN or ISBN (if monograph)
1474-175X
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Language
English
Publisher DOI
PubMed ID
26205341
Description
Excess body adiposity, commonly expressed as body mass index (BMI), is a risk factor for many common adult cancers. Over the past decade, epidemiological data have shown that adiposity-cancer risk associations are specific for gender, site, geographical population, histological subtype and molecular phenotype. The biological mechanisms underpinning these associations are incompletely understood but need to take account of the specificities observed in epidemiology to better inform future prevention strategies.
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| Renehan NatRevCancer 2015.pdf | text | Adobe PDF | 497.16 KB | publisher | published | ||
| Renehan NatRevCancer 2015_postprint.pdf | text | Adobe PDF | 1.08 MB | Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) | accepted |