Relationship between menopausal symptoms and risk of postmenopausal breast cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 379-388

  Huang, Yi ^a   Malone, Kathleen E ^a,b   Cushing Haugen, Kara L ^b   Daling, Janet R ^a,b   Li, Christopher I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MENOPAUSE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SWEATING;

AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951651796     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0998     Document Type: Article

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