Do fatty breasts increase or decrease breast cancer risk?

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shepherd, John A ^a   Kerlikowske, Karla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

AGE; BODY FAT; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER RISK; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FAMILY HISTORY; FATTY BREAST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MENOPAUSE; STROMA CELL; X RAY; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 84856277612     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr3081     Document Type: Editorial

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