Breast cancer in first-degree relatives and risk of lung cancer: Assessment of the existence of gene-sex interactions

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 419-423

  Tsuchiya, Masaki ^a   Iwasaki, Motoki ^a   Otani, Tetsuya ^a   Nitadori, Jun Ichi ^a   Goto, Koichi ^b   Nishiwaki, Yutaka ^b   Uchitomi, Yosuke ^b   Tsugane, Shoichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Gene; Lung cancer; Sex interaction; Shared candidate genes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINGENCY TABLE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 34547862409     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hym048     Document Type: Article

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