Sobering data on alcohol and breast cancer

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-227

  Willett, Walter C ^a,b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST TUMOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NOTE; RISK FACTOR;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031132404     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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