Body size and breast cancer risk in Black women and White women: The Carolina breast cancer study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 754-764

  Hall, Ingrid J ^a   Newman, Beth ^a   Millikan, Robert C ^a   Moorman, Patricia G ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Breast neoplasms; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034655011     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010275     Document Type: Article

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