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Weight, dietary behavior, and physical activity in childhood and adolescence: implications for adult cancer risk.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cancer awareness among adolescents in second-level education: a mixed methods systematic review.Health education research · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of grandparents' influence on grandchildren's cancer risk factors.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Maternal weight gain in pregnancy and risk of obesity among offspring: a systematic review.Journal of obesity · 2014Pooled it
- What is the effect of commercial food and non-alcoholic beverage marketing on the dietary intake of children and adolescents? Protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis with an equity lens.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Adolescent health and the intersectionality of ethnicity/race, sex, and sexual orientation: A national probability sample from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Eating Disorders and Later Incidence of Cancer: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study in Denmark.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Adolescent cancer prevention in rural, pediatric primary care settings in the United States: A scoping review.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Impact of Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity Trajectories on Colon Cancer Risk over the Adult Life Course.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2023Article
- A Web-Based Intervention to Improve Health Literacy and Obesogenic Behaviors Among Adolescents: Protocol of a Randomized Pilot Feasibility Study for a Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Cancer Risk Reduction Through Education of Adolescents: Development of a Tailored Cancer Risk-Reduction Educational Tool.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2022Article
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- Parent Perceptions of Changes in Child Physical Activity During COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Orders.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Cancer Prevention: Knowledge, Attitudes and Lifestyle Cancer-Related Behaviors among Adolescents in Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Cancer genetic health communication in families tested for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer risk: a qualitative investigation of impact on children's genetic health literacy and psychosocial adjustment.Translational behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- The association between caesarean section delivery and later life obesity in 21-24 year olds in an Urban South African birth cohort.PloS one · 2019Article
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- Aerobic Exercise Training Attenuates Tumor Growth and Reduces Insulin Secretion in Walker 256 Tumor-Bearing Rats.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Pubertal growth and adult height in relation to breast cancer risk in African American women.International journal of cancer · 2017Article
- Comparing percentages and ranks of adolescent weight-related outcomes among U.S. states: Implications for intervention development.Preventive medicine · 2017Article
- Introduction to the Special Issue on Adolescent and Young Adult Health: Why We Care, How Far We Have Come, and Where We Are Going.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Lifestyle factors related to energy balance, including weight, dietary behavior and physical activity, are associated with cancer risk. The period of childhood and growth into adolescence and early adulthood may re-present a 'cumulative risk' for later adult-onset cancers. We review a number of epidemiologic studies that have examined associations among childhood and adolescent body size, diet, and physical activity with adult cancer risk. These studies suggest that unhealthy behaviors that develop early in life and persist over time may increase the risk of some cancer types, such as premenopausal breast, ovarian, endometrial, colon and renal cancer, adversely affect cancer-related morbidities, and increase mortality. Continued research is needed to further determine and refine how timing and degree of such exposures in early childhood and adolescence relate to adult cancer risk. Presently, sufficient evidence suggests a continued need for stronger primary prevention in cancer and obesity research via modified lifestyle behaviors earlier in the developmental spectrum, i.e. during childhood and adolescence.
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