Maternal breast cancer risk after the death of a child

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 763-766

  Lambe, Mats ^a   Cerrato, Ruha ^a   Askling, Johan ^b   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Case control; Stress; Sweden; Traumatic life event

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEREAVEMENT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; ODDS RATIO; ONLY CHILD; REGISTRIES; RISK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 2942609013     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.20181     Document Type: Article

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