Attributable risks for breast cancer in Italy: Education, family history and reproductive and hormonal factors

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-163

  Tavani, Alessandra ^a   Braga, Claudia ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^a,b   Negri, Eva ^a   Russo, Antonio ^c   Franceschi, Silvia ^c  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; ITALY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; ITALY; MENOPAUSE; ODDS RATIO; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK;

EID: 0031018195     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970117)70:2<159::AID-IJC4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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