Comparing breast cancer risk between lesbians and their heterosexual sisters

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 60-68

  Dibble, Suzanne L ^a,c   Roberts, Stephanie A ^b   Nussey, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Private Practice   (United States)

^c Institute for Health and Aging   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ABORTION; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CONTRACEPTION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIAN; LIFESPAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342445481     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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