Height and cancer: consistent links, but mechanisms unclear.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Height and Breast Cancer Risk: Evidence From Prospective Studies and Mendelian Randomization.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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2. Height and bone mineral density are associated with naevus count supporting the importance of growth in melanoma susceptibility.PloS one · 2015
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3. A genome-wide gene-environment interaction study of breast cancer risk for women of European ancestry.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2023
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4. Heritable genetic variants in key cancer genes link cancer risk with anthropometric traits.Journal of medical genetics · 2021
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5. Adult height in relation to risk of cancer in a cohort of 22,809,722 Korean adults.British journal of cancer · 2019
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6. Height, height-related SNPs, and risk of non-melanoma skin cancer.British journal of cancer · 2017
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7. Body mass index relates weight to height differently in women and older adults: serial cross-sectional surveys in England (1992-2011).Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2016
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8. Adiposity and cancer risk: new mechanistic insights from epidemiology.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2015
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9. A prospective cohort study of body size and risk of head and neck cancers in the NIH-AARP diet and health study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2014
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10. Cholesterol and the risk of grade-specific prostate cancer incidence: evidence from two large prospective cohort studies with up to 37 years' follow up.BMC cancer · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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  Height and cancer incidence in the Million Women Study: prospective cohort, and meta-analysis of prospective studies of height and total cancer risk.2011

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