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Risk factors for adult renal cell carcinoma.
- Source :
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The Urologic clinics of North America [Urol Clin North Am] 2004 May; Vol. 31 (2), pp. 237-47. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This study confirmed several independent risk and protective factors for RCC identified in the authors' previous study. Protective factors such as oral contraceptive use and moderate alcohol consumption were identified only in women. Tobacco consumption and severe obesity were the main independent risk factors. There were other modifiable risk markers, however, such as occupational exposure, thiazidic drug intake, and urinary tract infections. The associations between risk factors and RCC were weak, even for tobacco, for which the association was weaker than that for lung cancer. The identified risks involve a large proportion of the population, however, and the risk attributable to these types of exposure is high. The authors' recommendations for the prevention of RCC are therefore similar to those for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and should be disseminated to the general population. The high-risk groups identified are too large for a specific early-screening program for RCC, but such screening might be appropriate if restricted to selected age groups.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Alcohol Drinking adverse effects
Coffee adverse effects
Contraceptives, Oral adverse effects
Female
Humans
Hypertension complications
Incidence
Kidney Calculi complications
Male
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Risk Factors
Sex Distribution
Smoking adverse effects
Survival Analysis
Urinary Tract Infections complications
Carcinoma, Renal Cell epidemiology
Carcinoma, Renal Cell etiology
Kidney Neoplasms epidemiology
Kidney Neoplasms etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0094-0143
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Urologic clinics of North America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15123404
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ucl.2004.01.004