Birth length and weight as predictors of breast cancer prognosis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mæhle, Bjørn O ^a,b   Vatten, Lars J ^c   Tretli, Steinar ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH LENGTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORWAY; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT INDEX; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ONCOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952928931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-115     Document Type: Article

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