Personality factors and breast cancer risk: A 13-year follow-up

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-218

  Bleiker, Eveline M A ^a,d   Hendriks, Jan H C L ^b   Otten, Johannes D M ^c   Verbeek, André L M ^b,c   Van Der Ploeg, Henk M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b National Expert and Training Centre for Breast Cancer Screening   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERSONALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 39149141922     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djm280     Document Type: Article

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