"Constitutive" skin pigmentation: A marker of breast cancer risk?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 787-789

  Manning, J T ^a   Caswell, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; MELANIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 5644244926     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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