Does breast size modify the association between mammographic density and breast cancer risk?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 621-627

  Stuedal, Anne ^a   Huiyan, Ma ^b   Bernstein, Leslie ^c   Pike, Malcolm C ^c   Ursin, Giske ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 41549090374     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2554     Document Type: Article

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