Association of family history and other risk factors with breast cancer risk among Japanese premenopausal and postmenopausal women

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 349-358

  Hirose, K ^a   Tajima, K ^a   Hamajima, N ^a   Takezaki, T ^a   Inoue, M ^a   Kuroishi, T ^a   Miura, S ^a   Tokudome, S ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Family history; Menopausal status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; FAMILIAL CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034968064     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011232602348     Document Type: Article

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