Alcohol consumption and breast cancer among black and white women in North Carolina (United States)

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-357

  Kinney, Anita Yeomans ^c   Millikan, Robert C ^d   Lin, Yu Hua ^a   Moorman, Patricia G ^b   Newman, Beth ^d  

^a IL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Breast neoplasms; Case control studies

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0034114413     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008973709917     Document Type: Article

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