Estimating age-specific breast cancer risks: A descriptive tool to identify age interactions

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 439-447

  Anderson, William F ^a   Matsuno, Rayna K ^a   Sherman, Mark E ^a   Lissowska, Jolanta ^a,b   Gail, Mitchell H ^a   Brinton, Louise A ^a   Yang, Xiaohong ^a   Peplonska, Beata ^c   Chen, Bingshu E ^a   Rosenberg, Philip S ^a   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^a   Szeszenia Da̧browska, Neonila ^c   Bardin Mikolajczak, Alicja ^b   Zatonski, Witold ^b   Devesa, Susan S ^a   García Closas, Montserrat ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Absolute risks; Odds ratio; Population based case control study; Rate ratios; Relative risks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; NULLIPARA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POLAND; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33947219088     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-006-0092-9     Document Type: Article

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