Risk of premenopausal breast cancer and patterns of established breast cancer risk factors among teachers and nurses

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-141

  Petralia, Sandra A ^a,b   Vena, John E ^a   Freudenheim, Jo L ^a   Michalek, Arthur ^a   Goldberg, Mark S ^c   Blair, Aaron ^b   Brasure, John ^a   Graham, Saxon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ease control; Nurses; Occupation; Teachers; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OCCUPATION; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; TEACHER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032948347     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199902)35:2<137::AID-AJIM5>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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