Breast cancer and childhood anthropometry: Emerging hypotheses?

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 83-85

  Magnusson, Cecilia M K ^a   Roddam, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; BRCA1 PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ANOVULATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BODY BUILD; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMENOPAUSE; PROTECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 18944375044     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr1014     Document Type: Article

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