Comparison of women's breast cancer risk factors in Geneva, Switzerland and Shanghai, China

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 497-501

  DeRoo, Lisa A ^a   Vlastos, Anne Thérèse ^a   Mock, Pascal ^a   Vlastos, Georges ^a   Morabia, Alfredo ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer; China; Risk Factors; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHINA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MENARCHE; NULLIPARA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78649714366     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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