Case-control study of borderline ovarian tumors: Reproductive history and exposure to exogenous female hormones

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 1988, Pages 5849-5852

  Harlow, Bernard L ^a   Weiss, Noel S ^a   Roth, Gilbert J ^a   Chu, Joseph ^a   Daling, Janet R ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

BORDERLINE TUMOR; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

AMERICAS; CANCER; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS CHOSEN; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DELAYED CHILDBEARING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; OVARIAN CANCER--DETERMINANTS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL STUDIES; STERILIZATION, SEXUAL; STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0023813897     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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