Adiposity and sex hormones in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1961-1966

  McTiernan, Anne ^a   Rajan, Kumar B ^a   Tworoger, Shelley S ^a   Irwin, Melinda ^a   Bernstein, Leslie ^a   Baumgartner, Richard ^a   Gilliland, Frank ^a   Stanczyk, Frank Z ^a   Yasui, Yutaka ^a   Ballard Barbash, Rachel ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODENSITOMETRY; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW MEXICO; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; SURVIVORS; TESTOSTERONE; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0037674058     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.07.057     Document Type: Article

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