The relationship between twin births and maternal risk of breast cancer: A meta-analysis

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 671-677

  Kim, Hye Sook ^a   Woo, Ok Hee ^a   Park, Kyong Hwa ^a   Woo, Sang Uk ^a   Yang, Dae Sik ^a   Kim, Ae Ree ^a   Lee, Eun Sook ^a   Lee, Jae Bok ^a   Kim, Yeul Hong ^a   Kim, Jun Suk ^a   Seo, Jae Hong ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Meta analysis; Twin births

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TWIN; PUBLICATION BIAS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK; TWINS;

EID: 84862969040     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1779-5     Document Type: Article

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