Breast asymmetry and predisposition to breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Scutt, Diane ^a   Lancaster, Gillian A ^a   Manning, John T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MORPHOMETRICS; PREDICTION; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; ORGAN SIZE; RISK;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ODDS RATIO; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33746480473     PISSN: 1465542X     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr1388     Document Type: Article

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