Breast-cancer incidence in relation to height, weight and body-fat distribution in the Dutch 'DOM' cohort

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 647-651

  Kaaks, Rudolf ^a   Van Noord, Paul A H ^b   Tonkelaar, Isolde Den ^b   Peeters, Petra H M ^b   Riboli, Elio ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; NETHERLANDS; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 0031780506     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980529)76:5<647::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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