Body size and risk of pre- and post-menopausal breast cancer in Taiwan

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5 B, 1996, Pages 3129-3132

  Chie, Wei Chu ^a   Chen, Ching Fen ^a   Lee, Wen Chung ^a   Chen, Chlen Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Body height; Body mass index; Body weight; Breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0029840187     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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