Anthropometry and head and neck cancer:a pooled analysis of cohort data

Mia M Gaudet1, Cari M Kitahara1, Christina C Newton1

  • 1Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA, Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Insitutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Samfundet Folkhälsan, Helsinki, Finland, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Population Health and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Social & Scientific Systems, Durham, NC, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China, Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Veteran's' Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, and Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Washington Universi

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