Cumulative risk of breast cancer to age 70 years according to risk factor status: Data from the nurses' health study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 950-964

  Colditz, Graham A ^a,c   Rosner, Bernard ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Hormones; Incidence; Reproduction; Risk

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER INCIDENCE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING; POSTMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034669539     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.10.950     Document Type: Article

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