Cigarette smoking and breast cancer risk: Limited evidence of genotypic and exogenous carcinogenic factors and their interactions

Breast Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Lynch, Henry T ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; CARCINOGEN; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MENARCHE; OVARY CARCINOMA; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TOBACCO;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; RISK; SMOKING;

EID: 77956863617     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: 15244741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2010.00940.x     Document Type: Editorial

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