The impact of reproductive factors on breast cancer risk - The feasibility of using Swedish population-based registers to account for the effect of confounding in cohort studies

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-243

  Holmberg, Erik ^a   Anderson, Harald ^b   Lundell, Marie ^c   Karlsson, Per ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Cohort studies; Confounding factors; Ionizing radiation; Reproductive history

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPARA; NULLIPARA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; REGISTRIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWEDEN;

EID: 21244467592     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-004-3363-3     Document Type: Article

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