Smoking and breast cancer: Is there really a link?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Phillips, David H ^a   Garte, Seymour ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CARCINOGEN; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ACETYLATION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALLELE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA ADDUCT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 38849108003     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2856     Document Type: Editorial

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