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Studies from Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening have provided new data on kidney cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 1st, 2010

Current study results from the report, 'Body mass index and subsequent risk of kidney cancer: a prospective cohort study in Japan,' have been published. "Although obesity is a risk factor for kidney cancer, few reports have investigated this association in Asian populations, notwithstanding the substantially different proportion of obesity between Asian and Western populations. Herein, we investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) and kidney cancer risk in Japanese persons, a relatively lean population," scientists in Tokyo, Japan report.

"The Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study was established in 1990 for Cohort I and in 1993 for Cohort...

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