Risk factors for ovarian cancer: A case-control study

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 592-598

  Booth, M ^a   Beral, V ^b   Smith, P ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MENOPAUSE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS CHOSEN; CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE; DATA ANALYSIS; DELAYED CHILDBEARING; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENGLAND; ESTROGENS; EUROPE; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE STERILIZATION; FERTILITY; HEALTH; HORMONES; INFANT NUTRITION; INGREDIENTS AND CHEMICALS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MATERNAL AGE; NEOPLASMS; NORTHERN EUROPE; NUTRITION; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; OVARIAN CANCER; PARENTAL AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVIOUS PRACTICE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SEX BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; STERILIZATION, SEXUAL; STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARITY; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024424291     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1989.320     Document Type: Article

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