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BMI, weight change, and site-specific cancer incidence in PLCO

Principal Investigator
Name
Cari Kitahara
Degrees
PhD
Institution
NCI, DCEG, NEB
Position Title
Research fellow
Email
About this CDAS Project
Study
PLCO (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
PLCO-45
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Aug 2, 2013
Title
BMI, weight change, and site-specific cancer incidence in PLCO
Summary
We propose a pooled analysis of PLCO and the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study to examine BMI at various ages throughout adulthood, BMI change, and total and site-specific cancer incidence.
Aims

1. Examine the associations of BMI in young adulthood (approximately ages 17-21), in middle-to-older adulthood (approximately age 50), and at baseline with the risks of total and site-specific cancers.
2. Examine associations for BMI change between young adulthood and middle-to-older adulthood on the risks of total and site-specific cancers.

Site-specific cancers include:

By site: female breast, endometrial, ovarian, liver, kidney, thyroid, pancreatic, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, colorectal, lung, and prostate
By site and histology: esophageal adenocarcinoma, gastric cardia

Collaborators

Wen-Yi Huang, NCI
Patricia Hartge, NCI
Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, NCI
Steven Moore, NCI
Philip Rosenberg, NCI

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