Lactation and breast cancer risk

Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-318

  Newcomb, Polly A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Breast neoplasms; Lactation; Risk

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LACTATION DISORDER; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; RAT; REVIEW; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; LACTATION; LACTATION DISORDERS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PREMENOPAUSE; RATS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0031173165     PISSN: 10833021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026344707161     Document Type: Article

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