Menopause and breast cancer risk

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1972, Pages 605-613

  Dimitrios, Trichopoulos ^a,b   Brian, Macmahon ^a   Philip, Cole ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER; CASTRATION; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; NEOPLASM; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OVARY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; STUDIES; SURVEYS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; MENOPAUSE; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SAMPLING STUDIES; STUDIES; SURVEYS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASTRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGE; OVARY; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0015303806     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/48.3.605     Document Type: Article

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