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BACKGROUND:Although epidemiologic studies suggest that metabolic syndrome (MetS) increases the risk of colorectal cancer, its effect on cancer mortality remains controversial.
METHODS:The authors used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)‐Medicare linked database (1998‐2006) to conduct a retrospective cohort study of 36,079 patients with colon cancer to determine the independent...
BACKGROUND:Although obesity is an established risk factor for developing colon cancer, its prognostic impact and relation to patient sex in colon cancer survivors remains unclear.
METHODS:The authors examined the prognostic and predictive impact of the body mass index (BMI) in patients with stage II and III colon carcinoma (N = 25,291) within the Adjuvant Colon Cancer Endpoints (ACCENT) database...
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