Childbearing at older age and endometrial cancer risk (Sweden)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-49

  Lambe, Mats ^a   Wuu, Joanne ^b   Weiderpass, Elisabete ^a   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^b,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at birth; Case control; Endometrial cancer; Parity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILDBIRTH; DELIVERY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033048568     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008860615584     Document Type: Article

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