Breast cancer and microbial cancer incidence in female populations around the world: A surprising hyperbolic association

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1094-1099

  Savu, Anamaria ^a   Potter, John ^b   Li, Suwen ^a   Yasui, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer etiology; Descriptive epidemiology; Differential equation models; Infectious disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS; ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; BREAST TUMOR; CROWDING; DNA DAMAGE; HEALTH; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOMACH TUMOR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIROLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ALPHAPAPILLOMAVIRUS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROWDING; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 47249156788     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23595     Document Type: Article

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