Oral contraceptive use and early abortion as risk factors for breast cancer in young women

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1981, Pages 72-76

  Pike, M C ^a   Henderson, B E ^a   Casagrande, J T ^a   Rosario, I ^a   Gray, G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ABORTION; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTRACEPTION; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; AMERICAS; BREAST CANCER; CALIFORNIA; CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENARCHE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RISK;

EID: 0019353276     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1981.10     Document Type: Article

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