Early onset breast cancer in black British women: A letter to the editor of British Journal of Cancer regarding early onset of breast cancer in a group of British black women

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1482-

  Dindyal, S ^a,b   Ramdass, M J ^b   Naraynsingh, V ^b  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Port of Spain General Hospital   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FIBROADENOMA; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; HUMAN; LETTER; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 42149190534     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604336     Document Type: Letter

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