A pilot study of male breast cancer in the veterans affairs healthcare system

Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-244

  Satram Hoang, Sacha ^a   Moran, Edgar M ^a,b   Anton Culver, Hoda ^a   Burras, Ronald W ^b   Heimann, Tomas M ^b   Boggio, Inez ^b   Dykstra Long, Gwendylen R ^b   Wood, Patricia A ^c   Zulka, Rita ^b   Hufnagel, Georgia ^d   Bahan, Karen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

^d Presbyterian Healthcare Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY HISTORY; GYNECOMASTIA; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VETERAN; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VETERANS;

EID: 79953013708     PISSN: 07318898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JEnvironPatholToxicolOncol.v29.i3.60     Document Type: Article

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