Lactation and a Reduced Risk of Premenopausal Breast Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 330, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 81-87

  Newcomb, Polly A ^a   Storer, Barry E ^a   Longnecker, Matthew P ^b   Mittendorf, Robert ^c   Greenberg, E Robert ^d   Clapp, Richard W ^e   Burke, Kenneth P ^f   Willett, Walter C ^g,h,i   Macmahon, Brian ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f Maine Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREMENOPAUSE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0002116740     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199401133300201     Document Type: Article

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