Breast cancer, birth cohorts, and Epstein-Barr virus: Methodological issues in exploring the "hygiene hypothesis" in relation to breast cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and stomach cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 405-411

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Strong, Emily Ficklin ^a   Makosky, Christine ^a   Weuve, Jennifer ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONNECTICUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038284718     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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