The plight of nuns: Hazards of nulliparity

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9834, 2012, Pages 2322-2323

  Britt, Kara ^a   Short, Roger ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CATHOLIC NUNS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; LACTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NOTE; NULLIPARA; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; OVARY CANCER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 84862597142     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61746-7     Document Type: Note

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