Pre-diagnostic metabolite concentrations and prostate cancer risk in 1077 cases and 1077 matched controls in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

Abstract Background Little is known about how pre-diagnostic metabolites in blood relate to risk of prostate cancer. We aimed to investigate the prospective association between plasma metabolite concentrations and risk of prostate cancer overall, and by time to diagnosis and tumour characteristics,...

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Main Authors: Julie A. Schmidt, Georgina K. Fensom, Sabina Rinaldi, Augustin Scalbert, Paul N. Appleby, David Achaintre, Audrey Gicquiau, Marc J. Gunter, Pietro Ferrari, Rudolf Kaaks, Tilman Kühn, Anna Floegel, Heiner Boeing, Antonia Trichopoulou, Pagona Lagiou, Eleutherios Anifantis, Claudia Agnoli, Domenico Palli, Morena Trevisan, Rosario Tumino, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Antonio Agudo, Nerea Larrañaga, Daniel Redondo-Sánchez, Aurelio Barricarte, José Maria Huerta, J. Ramón Quirós, Nick Wareham, Kay-Tee Khaw, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Mattias Johansson, Amanda J. Cross, Konstantinos K. Tsilidis, Elio Riboli, Timothy J. Key, Ruth C. Travis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0885-6