Towards an understanding of breast cancer etiology

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 255-262

  Adami, Hans Olov ^a,b   Signorello, Lisa B ^b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Causation; Etiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LACTATION; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0031794959     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scbi.1998.0077     Document Type: Article

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