Risk of breast cancer after miscarriage or induced abortion: A Scottish record linkage case-control study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-287

  Brewster, David H ^a   Stockton, Diane L ^a   Dobbie, Richard ^a   Bull, Diana ^b   Beral, Valerie ^b  

^a INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; HEALTH RISK; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; AGE; BREAST TUMOR; CHILD; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK; RISK FACTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; ODDS RATIO; OVARIECTOMY; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 15544389339     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.026393     Document Type: Article

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