Intrauterine factors and breast cancer risk

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1047-1048

  Lagiou, Pagona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHILD GROWTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS GROWTH; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY TOXEMIA; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DISEASES IN TWINS; ECLAMPSIA; ESTROGENS, NON-STEROIDAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ODDS RATIO; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TWINS;

EID: 36549036703     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(07)70351-0     Document Type: Letter

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