Anthropometric measures, endogenous sex steroids and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: A study within the EPIC cohort

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2832-2839

  Rinaldi, Sabina ^a   Key, Tim J ^b   Peeters, Petra H M ^c   Lahmann, Petra H ^d   Lukanova, Annekatrin ^e   Dossus, Laure ^a   Biessy, Carine ^a   Vineis, Paolo ^f,g   Sacerdote, Carlotta ^f   Berrino, Franco ^h   Panico, Salvatore ⁱ   Tumino, Rosario ^j   Palli, Domenico ^k   Nagel, Gabriele ^l   Linseisen, Jakob ^l   Boeing, Heiner ^d   Roddam, Andrew ^b   Bingham, Sheila ^m   Khaw, Kay Tee ⁿ   Chloptios, John ^o   Trichopoulou, Antonia ^o   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^o   Tehard, Bertrand ^p   Clavel Chapelon, Francoise ^p   Gonzalez, Carlos A ^q   Larrañaga, Nerea ^r   Barricarte, Aurelio ^s   Quirós, J Ramón ^t   Chirlaque, Maria Dolores ^u   Martinez, Carmen ^v   Monninkhof, Evelyne ^c   Grobbee, Diederick E ^c   Bueno De Mesquita, H Bas ^w   Ferrari, Pietro ^a   Slimani, Nadia ^a   Riboli, Elio ^a   Kaaks, Rudolf ^a   more..

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^j CIVILE M P AREZZO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^k CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^l GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^p INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^q CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^r Basque Government   (Spain)

^s INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA   (Spain)

^t Seccion Informacion Sanitaria   (Spain)

^u DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Spain)

^v ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^w NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

BMI; Breast cancer; Cohort studies; Hip; Postmenopausal women; Waist

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADIPOSITY; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 33646358718     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.21730     Document Type: Article

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