Anthropometric features and cutaneous melanoma risk: A prospective cohort study in French women

• Published in: Cancer epidemiology Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 357 - 363
• Main Authors: Kvaskoff, Marina, Bijon, Anne, Mesrine, Sylvie, Vilier, Alice, Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise, Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2014; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Analysis. Health state; Anthropometry; Biological and medical sciences; Body mass index; Body Size; Cancer; Cohort Studies; Confidence intervals; Cutaneous melanoma; Epidemiology; Family medical history; Female; General aspects; Health risk assessment; Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine; Humans; Internal Medicine; Medical sciences; Melanoma; Melanoma - epidemiology; Middle Aged; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Questionnaires; Risk Factors; Skin Neoplasms - epidemiology; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tumors; RR; WHR; E3N; Cutaneous melanoma; body mass index; CI; Anthropometry; IGF; waist-to-hip ratio; Etude Epidémiologique auprès de femmes de l’Education Nationale; Epidemiology; relative risk; UVR; ultraviolet radiation; BSA; Cohort studies; metabolism equivalent task; confidence interval; insulin-like growth factor; MET; BMI; body surface area; Human; Skin disease; Risk; Malignant tumor; Skin cancer; Prospective; Cohort study; Risk factor; Adult; Female; Woman; Cancer
• ISSN: 1877-7821; 1877-783X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2014.05.008

Highlights • We prospectively study associations between anthropometric features and melanoma risk. • We investigate components of height, body shapes at different ages and melanoma risk in ca. 100,000 women. • Sitting-to-standing height ratio is positively associated with melanoma risk. • A large body shape at menarche is associated with lower melanoma risk. • Results suggest hormonal influence on melanoma risk.