Cancer causes & control : CCC
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Cancer Causes Control · Nov 2014
Obesity and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survival in an ethnically diverse population: the Multiethnic Cohort study.
Obesity increases mortality for several malignancies, but for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), the association between body mass index (BMI) and survival is unclear. We examined the association of pre-diagnostic BMI with overall and NHL-specific survival in the multiethnic cohort (MEC) study of African Americans, Native Hawaiians, Japanese Americans, Latinos, and Caucasians. ⋯ Pre-diagnostic BMI may be a suitable prognostic marker for NHL patients.