Tonsillectomy and breast cancer risk in the Western New York Diet Study

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 369-374

  Brasky, Theodore M ^a   Bonner, Matthew R ^a   Dorn, Joan ^a   Marhsall, James R ^b   Vena, John E ^c   Brasure, John R ^a   Freudenheim, Jo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Case control; Epidemiology; Inflammation; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONSILLECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTORS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SMOKING; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 61449088273     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-008-9251-5     Document Type: Article

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