Comparison of active and cancer registry-based follow-up for breast cancer in a prospective cohort study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 372-378

  Kato, Ikuko ^a   Toniolo, Paolo ^a   Koenig, Karen L ^a   Kahn, Amy ^a,b   Schymura, Maria ^a,b   Zeleniuch Jacquotte, Anne ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Data collection; Epidemiologic methods; Follow up studies; Medical record linkage; Neoplasms; Registries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER REGISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MENOPAUSE; MULTIPARA; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033557399     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009823     Document Type: Article

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