Possible implication of environmental hormones in the recent risk increase of cancers of the skin and the liver, but not of the female breast worldwide

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1 B, 1999, Pages 789-798

  Kodama, Mitsuo ^a   Murakami, Mihoko ^a   Kodama, Toshiko ^a  

^a Kodama Res Inst of Prev Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer risk increase; Environmental hormones; Infant type cancer; Liver cancer; Skin cancer; Westernization effect

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SKIN CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME;

EID: 0032926310     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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