Risk factors for breast cancer in a population with high incidence rates

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Wrensch, Margaret ^a   Chew, Terri ^a   Farren, Georgianna ^b   Barlow, Janice ^b   Belli, Flavia ^b   Clarke, Christina ^c   Erdmann, Christine A ^d   Lee, Marion ^a   Moghadassi, Michelle ^a   Peskin Mentzer, Roni ^b   Quesenberry, Charles P ^e   Souders Mason, Virginia ^b   Spence, Linda ^b   Suzuki, Marisa ^a   Gould, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Marin Breast Cancer Watch   (United States)

^c NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Case control study; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIRST-DEGREE RELATIVE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENARCHE; ONSET AGE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREMENOPAUSE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0042093783     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr605     Document Type: Article

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