Body size as a factor in different ages and breast cancer risk in Taiwan

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1 B, 1998, Pages 565-570

  Chie, Wei Chu ^a   Li, Chung Yi ^b   Huang, Chiun Sheng ^a   Chang, King Jen ^a   Lin, Ruey Shiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Breast cancer; Height; Weight

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PARITY; RISK; TAIWAN;

EID: 0031901054     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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