Ovarian cancer

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue , 1996, Pages 85-96

  Westhoff, C ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

familial diseases; infertility; oral contraceptives; ovarian neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

EID: 0029912463     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pu.17.050196.000505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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