Models of Breast Cancer Show That Risk Is Set by Events of Early Life: Prevention Efforts Must Shift Focus

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 567-571

  Colditz, Graham A ^a,b   Frazier, A Lindsay ^a,b  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; DIET; GENETIC RISK; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MENARCHE; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIETY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE STYLE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029054624     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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