The evidence that measures of obesity and stature are associated with prostate cancer is
weak and inconsistent. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the …

Epidemiologic evidence on the relation between sunlight and cancer is reviewed. Strong
evidence implicates sunlight as a cause of skin cancer, although, for melanoma and basal …

Non-melanocytic skin cancer has long been regarded as one of the harmful effects of solar
ultraviolet (UV) radiation on human health. In this review, we examine epidemiologic …

Background A high body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of
the height in meters) is associated with increased mortality from cardiovascular disease and …

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting males in developed countries. It shows
consistent evidence of familial aggregation, but the causes of this aggregation are mostly …

Background Most persons who are homozygous for C282Y, the HFE allele most commonly
asssociated with hereditary hemochromatosis, have elevated levels of serum ferritin and …

Background Women with extensive dense breast tissue visible on a mammogram have a
risk of breast cancer that is 1.8 to 6.0 times that of women of the same age with little or no …

Background Previous studies have suggested that breast cancer risk factors are associated
with estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expression status of the tumors …

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To
identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

Our report deals with the relationship of pattern and timing of sun exposure to basal cell
carcinoma (BCC) in a population‐based case‐control study conducted in Western Australia …