Cancer among scandinavian women with cosmetic breast implants: A pooled long-term follow-up study

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 490-493

  Lipworth, Loren ^a,b   Tarone, Robert E ^a,b   Friis, Søren ^c   Ye, Weimin ^d   Olsen, Jørgen H ^b,c   Nyren, Olof ^b,d   McLaughlin, Joseph K ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast implants; Cancer incidence; Cohort study; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; AGED; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 58249089966     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23932     Document Type: Article

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