Breast cancer and ethnicity: Strong association between reproductive risk factors and estrogen receptor status in Asian patients - A retrospective study

Breast Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 352-358

  Menes, Tehillah S ^a   Ozao, Junko ^a   Kim, Unsup ^a  

^a ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen; Ethnicity; Reproductive risk factor

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIRTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; NEGRO; NULLIPARA; PARITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34250800233     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2007.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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