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Height, but not weight or BMI, associated increases risk of testicular cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 22nd, 2003

by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Increased height, but not weight or body mass index, raises the risk of testicular cancer, according to a report in European Urology.

"The incidence of testicular germ cell tumors (GCT) has been increasing since decades but cohorts of men born during war-time and immediately thereafter had a lower incidence," reported Klaus-Peter Dieckmann at the Albertinen-Krankenhaus and Uwe Pichlmeier at Universitatskrankenhaus Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. "Based on this epidemiological observation, a hypothesis was generated that postulated nutritional factors in early life to be involved in the pathogenesis of GCT. To...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-04-22)

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