Association of overweight and obesity with breast cancer in India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 259-262

  Singh, P ^a   Kapil, Umesh ^a   Shukla, N K ^a   Deo, S V S ^a   Dwivedi, S N ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; case control study; India; obesity; overweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856033703     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.91326     Document Type: Article

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