A case-control study ofendometrial cancer in relation to reproductive, somatometric, and life-style variables

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 354-359

  Kalandidi, Anna ^a   Tzonou, Anastasia ^a,b   Lipworth, Loren ^b   Gamatsi, Irene ^a   Filippa, Dimitra ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Endometrial cancer; Greece; Life style

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUCED ABORTION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; RISK; SMOKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY CONSTITUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0029833291     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227587     Document Type: Article

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