childhood energy intake and subsequent risk of cancer was also confined to cancers unrelated to smoking. Most previous studies have either grouped all cancers together or looked only at individual cancers. However, consistent with our results, the physicians health study found a positive association of height with all malignant neoplasms but not with lung cancer. In line with extensive animal e...

BACKGROUND South Asians in England have an increased risk of childhood cancer but incidence by their individual ethnicities using self-assigned ethnicity is unknown. Our objective was to compare the incidence of childhood cancer in British Indians and Whites in Leicester, which has virtually complete, self-assigned, ethnicity data and the largest population of Indians in England. METHODS We o...

Large for gestational age birth weight is associated with adverse short- and long-term outcomes. Infants born large are at increased risk neonatal intensive care unit admission, respiratory distress, metabolic abnormalities including hypoglycemia, trauma, even stillbirth or death. The many of these complications increases higher weights. Individuals also appear to be subsequent overweight/obesi...

Childhood brain tumors are not just the same tumors that arise in adulthood. Brain tumors in children and adults differ significantly in their incidence, tumor type, and treatment. Overall, survival rates for those with brain tumors are better in childhood than in the adult years. However, the immaturity of the child's brain makes treatment decisions difficult, especially in infants. The majori...

In recent years, the public has shown concern about trends in incidence rates, the occurrence of clusters, and the role of certain environmental exposures in the cause of childhood cancers. A frontpage news story in the New York Times1 stimulated a dramatic upswing of public anxiety about these issues. Hearings by the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on a cluster of 11 childhood...

background: previous studies indicate a high incidence of digestive cancers along southern parts of caspian sea including ma­zandaran province. the present study was conducted to further investigate time to occurrence, age distribution and pos­sible risks associated with the incidence time of digestive cancers in the above regions. methods: for this purpose the data of digestive cancer incidenc...

conclusions most patients are referred for restaging and demonstrate evidence of regional or distant metastasis with significant value for further treatment planning. providing insurance coverage and familiarizing referring physicians about appropriate indications of this relatively new diagnostic modality will be to the best interest of head and neck cancer patients in long term. methods we re...