Interactions of familial and hormonal risk factors for large bowel cancer in women

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 603-608

  Newcomb, Polly A ^a,b   Taylor, Jean O ^a   Trentham Dietz, Amy ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Family history; Hormones; Large bowel neoplasms; Risk factors; Women

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER LICENCE; EDUCATION; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SIBLING; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WISCONSIN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0032796517     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.4.603     Document Type: Article

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