Risk factors of thyroid cancer among women in Tokai, Japan

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 140-147

  Takezaki, Toshiro ^a   Hirose, Kaoru ^a   Inoue, Manami ^a   Hamajima, Nobuyuki ^a   Kuroishi, Tetsuo ^a   Nakamura, Shigeo ^b   Koshikawa, Takashi ^b   Matsuura, Hidehiro ^a   Tajima, Kazuo ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Department of Clinical Laboratory ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Case referent study; Japan; Past history of thyroid diseases; Thyroid cancer; Women

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COFFEE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PARITY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COFFEE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PARITY; RISK FACTORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547117905     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.6.140     Document Type: Article

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