Breast cancer hypothesis: A single cause for the majority of cases

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 851-858

  Wiseman, R A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FAT; TRACE ELEMENT; TUMOR PROMOTER; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POLLUTION; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR PROMOTION; URBAN AREA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CAUSALITY; DIETARY FATS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFECTION; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RATS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0033786363     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.11.851     Document Type: Article

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