Examining breast cancer growth and lifestyle risk factors: Early life, childhood, and adolescence

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 334-342

  Ruder, Elizabeth H ^a,c   Dorgan, Joanne F ^b   Kranz, Sibylle ^a   Kris Etherton, Penny M ^a   Hartman, Terryl J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Body mass index; Estrogen; Gestational age; Gonadal steroid hormones; Menarche

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADOLESCENCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIFESTYLE; LIPID DIET; MENARCHE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 53449089274     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CBC.2008.n.038     Document Type: Review

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