The Breakthrough Generations Study: Design of a long-term UK cohort study to investigate breast cancer aetiology

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 911-917

  Swerdlow, A J ^a   Jones, M E ^a   Schoemaker, M J ^a   Hemming, J ^a   Thomas, D ^a   Williamson, J ^a,b   Ashworth, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aetiology; breast cancer; cohort study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053281350     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.337     Document Type: Article

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