Combined effect of childbearing, menstrual events, and body size on age-specific breast cancer risk

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 962-979

  Kampert, James B ^a   Whittemore, Alice S ^b   Paffenbarger, Ralph S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cell transformation; Menarche; Menopause; Parity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENARCHE; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; BODY COMPOSITION; BREAST TUMOR; LETTER; MENSTRUATION;

AGE FACTORS; AMERICAS; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER--DETERMINANTS; CALIFORNIA; CANCER; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ESTIMATION TECHNICS; FERTILITY; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDEXES; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PARENTAL AGE; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION AT RISK--WOMEN; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; BODY COMPOSITION; MENSTRUATION;

EID: 0023756810     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115070     Document Type: Article

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