Effect of body size on breast-cancer risk among Japanese women

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-355

  Hirose, Kaoru ^a   Tajima, Kazuo ^a   Hamajima, Nobuyuki ^a   Takezaki, Toshiro ^a   Inoue, Manami ^a   Kuroishi, Tetsuo ^a   Miura, Shigeto ^a   Tokudome, Shinkan ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0032929822     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990129)80:3<349::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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