Maternal risk of breast cancer following multiple births: A nationwide study in Sweden

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 533-538

  Lambe, Mats ^a   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^b,c   Tsaih, Shirng Wern ^b   Ekbom, Anders ^a,b   Adami, Hans Olov ^a,b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UMASS Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Multiple births; Pregnancy; Sweden; Twinning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0029817278     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00051886     Document Type: Article

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