Family history of breast and ovarian cancer among breast-cancer patients in the Connecticut Tumor Registry

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 67-70

  Polednak, Anthony P ^a   Flannery, John T ^b  

^a CDC

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; REGISTER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0030075042     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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