Risk of breast cancer after onset of type 2 diabetes: Evidence of detection bias in postmenopausal women

Diabetes Care

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2542-2544

  Bowker, Samantha L ^a   Richardson, Kathryn ^b   Marra, Carlo A ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84856423533     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc11-1199     Document Type: Article

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