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Body Mass Index, Diabetes and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Risk: The Liver Cancer Pooling Project and

Jessica L Petrick1, Jake E Thistle1, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte1

  • 1Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA. Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Division of Pediatric Epidemiology and Clinical Research and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA. VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA. Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore. Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|September 5, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Obesity and diabetes significantly increase the risk of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), a less-studied liver cancer. These findings suggest shared risk factors between ICC and hepatocellular carcinoma.

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