Serum sex hormones and breast cancer risk factors in postmenopausal women

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 380-383

  Lamar, Charisee A ^a   Dorgan, Joanne F ^c   Longcope, Christopher ^d   Stanczyk, Frank Z ^e   Falk, Roni T ^b   Stephenson Jr , Hugh E ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE SULFATE; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BODY MASS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0037390243     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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