@article{oai:sapmed.repo.nii.ac.jp:00014179,
 author = {Washio, Masakazu and Sakauchi, Fumio and Sonoda, Tomoko and Ikeda, Toshiko and Mori, Mitsuru},
 journal = {Tumor Research, Tumor Research},
 month = {},
 note = {The incidence of kidney cancer and resulting mortality has been increasing in recent years. Its incidence is highest in Western and Northern Europe and North America, moderate in Japan, and low elsewhere in Asia. Although the incidence of kidney cancer in Japan is lower than in the other developed countries, there is no doubt that there has been an increasing occurrence of this disease recently in Japan, which may be partly due to the adoption of a Western life style.Obesity/overweight is associated with an increased risk of several kinds of cancers, including Kidney cancer. The prevalence of obesity/overweight is lower in Japan compared with in western countries; however, there has been a rapid increase due to the phenomenon of the Japanese adopting Western life styles and dietary habits. This in turn has led to a sharp increase in insulin resistance syndromes such as hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes mellitus. Hypertension is a risk factor for kidney cancer as well.Smoking tobacco smoking is also a risk factor for Kidney cancer and although smoking by people under the age of 20 years is prohibited by law in Japan, 36.6% of male high school students and 16.2% of female high school students smoke more than once a month. As adolescent smoking is a public health priority, an anti-smoking education and program to be introduced to school children at an early age is urgently required.As it is possible to intervene in order to reduce the prevalence and degree of obesity and smoking, health education would seem to be crucial tool in the fight against renal cancer. In this paper, we discuss the risk factors for kidney cancer (i.e., renal cell carcinoma) including life styles.},
 pages = {1--6},
 title = {Risk Factors for Kidney Cancer},
 volume = {38},
 year = {2003}
}