Recreational Physical Activity and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative Cohort Study

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1331-1336

  McTiernan, Anne ^a   Kooperberg, Charles ^a   White, Emily ^a   Wilcox, Sara ^b   Coates, Ralph ^c   Adams Campbell, Lucile L ^d   Woods, Nancy ^e   Ockene, Judith ^f  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; RISK; WALKING; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECREATION; RISK;

EID: 0042413423     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.10.1331     Document Type: Article

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