Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Chinese Women in Shanghai

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 1949-1953

  Yuan, Jian Min ^a   Yu, Mimi C ^a   Ross, Ronald K ^a   Gao, Yu Tang ^a   Henderson, Brian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

BREAST CANCER; CHINESE; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ABORTION, INDUCED; AGE FACTORS; ASIA; ASIANS; BIOLOGY; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CHINA; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN ASIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; FERTILITY CONTROL, POSTCONCEPTION; FERTILITY MEASUREMENTS; FIRST BIRTH; HIGH RISK WOMEN; INCIDENCE--CHANGES; LACTATION; MATERNAL PHYSIOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NEOPLASMS; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY HISTORY; REPRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION--WOMEN;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0023924109     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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