Breast cancer risk factors: A comparison between pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-124

  Butt, Zeeshan ^a   Haider, Syed Furqan ^b   Arif, Shumaila ^a   Khan, Muhammad Raza ^b   Ashfaq, Umair ^a   Shahbaz, Umer ^a   Bukhari, Mulazam Hussain ^b  

^a MAYO HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Case control study; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; MENARCHE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NULLIPARA; ONCOLOGY WARD; PAKISTAN; PARITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL WARD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84863411303     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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