The relation of breast size to breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-118

  Egan, Kathleen M ^a   Newcomb, Polly A ^c,d   Titus Ernstoff, Linda ^e   Trentham Dietz, Amy ^f   Baron, John A ^e   Willett, Walter C ^a,b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,b   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Breast cancer; Breast size; Case control study; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032935312     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008801131831     Document Type: Article

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