SynthesisBritish journal of cancer2010
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between body size and testicular cancer.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Testicular Cancer: A Systematic Review.European urology · 2025Pooled it
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- Metabolic profile and skeletal muscle as predictors of survival in testicular germ cell tumors.The oncologist · 2026Article
- Independent factors associated with advanced testicular germ cell tumors: the roles of smoking, lymphovascular invasion, and tumor size.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Postnatal determinants of testicular germ cell tumor by histological subtypes: The EPSAM1 and EPSAM2 studies.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Obesity in reproduction: Mechanisms from fertilization to post‑uterine development (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
- New insights on testicular cancer prevalence with novel diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic approaches.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2024Review
- Radiomics and Clinicopathological Characteristics for Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Testicular Cancer.Cancers · 2023Article
- Prediagnostic Hormone Levels and Risk of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors: A Nested Case-Control Study in the Janus Serum Bank.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2023Article
- Dietary trends and the decline in male reproductive health.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2023Review
- Risk Factors for Testicular Cancer: Environment, Genes and Infections-Is It All?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Global patterns in testicular cancer incidence and mortality in 2020.International journal of cancer · 2022Article
- Increasing Incidence of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors among Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the United States.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020Article
- A Population-Based Analysis of Incidence, Mortality, and Survival in Testicular Cancer Patients in Lithuania.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Article
- Adult height in relation to risk of cancer in a cohort of 22,809,722 Korean adults.British journal of cancer · 2019Article
- Childhood height and risk of testicular germ cell tumors in adulthood.International journal of cancer · 2018Article
- Hereditary association between testicular cancer and familial ovarian cancer: A Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry study.Cancer epidemiology · 2018Article
- Genetic Contributions to The Association Between Adult Height and Head and Neck Cancer: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Characteristics of symptomatic men with testicular microlithiasis - A Danish cross-sectional questionnaire study.Andrology · 2017Article
- Cancer, obesity, diabetes, and antidiabetic drugs: is the fog clearing?Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundStudies assessing the relationships of anthropometry and testicular germ-cell tumour (TGCT) have reported heterogeneous findings.
methodsWe undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations between adult height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and testicular cancer. Search strategies were conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Web of Science on 26 May 2009. Studies that met our inclusion criteria were included in meta-analytic models using STATA 11.
resultsA total of 3255 references were retrieved, of which 14 met the inclusion criteria. Random effects meta-analysis found adult height (odds ratio (OR) per 5-cm increase 1.13, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.07-1.19, P<0.001) and weight (OR overweight vs normal 0.92, 95% CI 0.86-0.98, P=0.011) to be associated with TGCT. The meta-analysis of weight and TGCT produced a summary estimate, which indicated no association, although an analysis restricted studies to North American was suggestive of association (OR per 1-kg increase 1.01, 95% CI 1.00-1.01, P<0.001).
conclusionsThis systematic review and meta-analysis has found evidence for a positive association of adult height and TGCT, and tentative evidence for an inverse association of BMI and TGCT.
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