Fetal growth and subsequent risk of breast cancer: Results from long term follow up of Swedish cohort

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7383, 2003, Pages 248-251

  McCormack, V A ^a   Dos Santos Silva, I ^a   De Stavola, B L ^a   Mohsen, R ^b   Leon, D A ^a   Lithell, H O ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037311014     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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