Lifetime cumulative number of menstrual cycles and serum sex hormone levels in postmenopausal women

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-112

  Chavez MacGregor, Mariana ^a,b   Van Gils, Carla H ^a   Van Der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a   Monninkhof, Evelyn ^a   Van Noord, Paulus A H ^a   Peeters, Petra H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; Cumulative number of menstrual cycles; Reproductive Characteristics; Risk Factors; Sex Hormones; Steroids

Indexed keywords

ANDOSTEREDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; PRASTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING HABIT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 43049093780     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9574-z     Document Type: Article

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