Association Between Circulating White Blood Cell Count and Cancer Mortality | Zendy

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Association Between Circulating White Blood Cell Count and Cancer Mortality

Author(s) -

Anoop Shankar,

Jie Jin Wang,

Elena Rochtchina,

Mimi C. Yu,

Richard Kefford,

Paul Mitchell

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.2.188

Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , aspirin , white blood cell , cancer , confidence interval , diabetes mellitus , population , relative risk , prospective cohort study , body mass index , absolute neutrophil count , hematocrit , thrombocytosis , endocrinology , neutropenia , toxicity , platelet , environmental health

Inflammatory processes are implicated in the development and progression of cancer. However, it is not clear whether systemic markers of inflammation predict cancer. We examined the prospective relationship between circulating white blood cell (WBC) count and cancer mortality.

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