Dual effect of first full term pregnancy on breast cancer risk: Empirical evidence and postulated underlying biology

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 295-298

  Pathak, Dorothy R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; PARITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ADULT; AGE; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NOTE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUCASOID RACE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036001335     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015282916368     Document Type: Editorial

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