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Ann W Hsing
Biomedicine
Biomedicine, general
Cancer Research
Epidemiology
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Overall and central obesity and prostate cancer risk in African men
African men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer (PCa). Given the increasing prevalence of obesity in Africa, and its association with aggressive PCa in other populations, we examined the relatio...
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Serum androgens and prostate cancer risk: results from the placebo arm of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
Compelling and long-standing data suggest that androgens play an important role in the development of both normal prostate epithelium and prostate cancer. Although testosterone administration can induce prosta...
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Prospective study of human herpesvirus type 8 serostatus and prostate cancer risk in the placebo arm of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
Human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV-8), a gamma herpesvirus associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma, has been proposed as a candidate risk factor for prostate cancer (PCa) because of its detection in benign and malignant p...
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Prospective study of cytomegalovirus serostatus and prostate cancer risk in the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial
To investigate serologic evidence of infection by cytomegalovirus (CMV), a herpesvirus with known oncogenic potential that has been detected in malignant prostate tissue, in relation to prostate cancer (PCa) r...
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Physical activity, diabetes, and thyroid cancer risk: a pooled analysis of five prospective studies
Although many studies have linked obesity with increased risk of thyroid cancer, few have investigated the role of obesity-related lifestyle characteristics and medical conditions in the etiology of this disea...
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Medical history and the risk of biliary tract cancers in Shanghai, China: implications for a role of inflammation
Several lines of evidence suggest that inflammation may play a role in the etiology of biliary tract cancers. To examine further the role of inflammation, we evaluated the associations between self-reported in...
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Open AccessSerum estrogen levels and prostate cancer risk in the prostate cancer prevention trial: a nested case–control study
Finasteride reduces prostate cancer risk by blocking the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. However, whether finasteride affects estrogens levels or change in estrogens affects prostate cancer ...
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Dietary carbohydrate, glycemic index, glycemic load, and risk of prostate cancer in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO) cohort
To evaluate the associations between dietary carbohydrate, glycemic index (GI), glycemic load (GL), and incident prostate cancer in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO) coh...
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Intra-individual variation in serum C-reactive protein over 4 years: an implication for epidemiologic studies
Data on long-term intra-individual variability in high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) are needed to determine whether one measurement adequately reflects usual levels in prospective studies of on the e...
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Diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer risk in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial
A history of diabetes has been fairly consistently related to a reduced prostate cancer risk, but previous investigations have not always addressed whether the relation with diabetes varies by prostate cancer ...
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Case-control study of diet and prostate cancer in China
Introduction: A higher incidence of prostate cancer is observed in the Western world than in Asian countries. Although it is relatively rare in China, an increased incidence has been reported in recent years. ...
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Risk Factors for Male Breast Cancer (United States)
Objectives: The etiology of male breast cancer is obscure, although an excess risk has been associated with Klinefelter syndrome, testicular disorders, benign breast disease including gynecomastia, use of exog...
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Risk factors for small intestine cancer
Small intestine cancer is relatively rare. Clinical reports have suggested that several medical conditions may predispose to increased occurrence of this cancer, but otherwise its etiology is unknown. In one o...
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Alcoholism and cancer risk: a population-based cohort study
The incidence of cancer was studied in a population-based cohort of 9,353 individuals (8,340 men and 1,013 women) with a discharge diagnosis of alcoholism in 1965–83, followed up for 19 years (mean 7.7). After...
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Oral contraceptives and primary liver cancer among young women
The association of oral contraceptive use with liver cancer was examined in a study of 76 deaths from primary liver cancer, 22 deaths from cancer of the intrahepatic bile ducts, and 629 controls among women ag...
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Cigarette smoking and leukemia: results from the Lutheran Brotherhood Cohort Study
In a 20-year follow-up (1966–86) of 17,633 White males who described tobacco use in a mailed questionnaire sent in 1966, there were 74 deaths from leukemia (including 30 myeloid, 30 lymphatic, and 14 other and...
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Cigarette smoking and liver cancer among US veterans
The relationship of tobacco use with risk of primary liver cancer was investigated using data from a 26-year mortality follow-up of nearly 250,000 US veterans, mostly from World War I. Significantly increased ...
