In:
International Journal of Cancer, Wiley, Vol. 138, No. 6 ( 2016-03-15), p. 1410-1415
Kurzfassung:
What's new? How do prenatal factors influence cancer risk? This study investigated how birth weight correlates with incidence of liver cancer among a cohort of over 200,000 individuals born between 1936 and 1980. Low birth weight, they found, means a boost in liver cancer risk for both men and women. Only in women did they observe an association between high birth weight and liver cancer. Thus it seems that a sex‐specific mechanism may spur the molecular processes that start one down the path to liver cancer.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0020-7136
,
1097-0215
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Wiley
Publikationsdatum:
2016
ZDB Id:
218257-9
ZDB Id:
1474822-8