A population-based study of endometrial cancer and familial risk in younger women

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 411-417

  Gruber, Stephen B ^a   Thompson, W Douglas ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CARCINOMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029944173     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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