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Lifetime body size and prostate cancer risk in a population-based case-control study in sweden

Elisabeth Möller, Cecilia Lundholm, Rino Bellocco, Lorelei A. Mucci, Hans-Olov Adami, Katarina Bälter 
01 Jan 2013-American Journal of Epidemiology (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC)-Vol. 177
TL;DR: A comprehensive life-course approach revealed no convincing associations between anthropometric measures and prostate cancer risk, however, some leads that deserve further investigation are found, particularly for early-life body size.
Abstract: LIFETIME BODY SIZE AND PROSTATE CANCER RISK IN A POPULATION-BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDY IN SWEDEN
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  • ...Furthermore, self-reported anthropometric data in adulthood may entail overestimation of height and underestimation of weight and BMI [39]....

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  • ...E. Möller (&) H.-O. Adami C. Lundholm R. Bellocco H. Grönberg K. Bälter Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, P.O. Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden e-mail: elisabeth.moller@ki.se H.-O. Adami L. A. Mucci Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA L. A. Mucci Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA L. A. Mucci Centre for Public Health Science, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland R. Bellocco Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy J.-E. Johansson School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden J.-E. Johansson Department of Urology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden Keywords Prostatic neoplasms Body figure Height Body mass index Weight change Epidemiology...

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  • ...The most critical period is potentially before and during puberty, but also early adulthood is likely important as tumorigenic processes in prostatic tissue have been seen in men in their 20s [57]....

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TL;DR: Although the proportion of advanced stage cancers was much lower after PSA screening began, risk factors for advanced stage prostate cancers were similar in the pre‐PSA and PSA era.
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  • ...Adult height has been positively associated with the disease [5, 7, 13, 20, 21]....

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  • ...The positive associations between adult height and various prostate cancer subtypes are in line with several previous studies [5, 7, 13, 20, 21]....

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