Medical radiation exposure and breast cancer risk: Findings from the Breast Cancer Family Registry

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 386-394

  John, Esther M ^a   Phipps, Amanda I ^a   Knight, Julia A ^b   Milne, Roger L ^c   Dite, Gillian S ^d   Hopper, John L ^d   Andrulis, Irene L ^b,e   Southey, Melissa ^d   Giles, Graham G ^f   West, Dee W ^a,g   Whittemore, Alice S ^g  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acne; Breast cancer; Diagnostic radiation; Pneumonia; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS CHEST X-RAY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250351890     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22668     Document Type: Article

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