CRP and cancer: Our finding that men with the highest CRP values indicating highest cancer risk had greater odds of having higher household incomes is in agreement with some studies (Rimpela and Pukkala, 1987; Yu et al., 1988), but inconsistent with others (Oishi et al., 1989; Fincham et al., 1990) and a few studies have reported no association (Talamini et al., 1986; Severson et al., 1989).