Breast cancer: Epidemiology and risk factors

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-102

  Stuckey, Ashley ^a  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epidemiology; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROTEIN P53;

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE BREAST; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENARCHE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; TESTIS DISEASE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENES, BRCA1; GENES, BRCA2; HORMONES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBESITY; PEDIGREE; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79951638044     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e3182080056     Document Type: Article

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