Assessing breast cancer risk: Genetic factors are not the whole story

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 6-34

  Korde, Larissa A ^a   Calzone, Kathleen A ^a   Zujewski, Joanne ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TAMOXIFEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19644362678     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2004.10.1595     Document Type: Article

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