Pre-diagnostic alcohol consumption and postmenopausal breast cancer survival: A prospective patient cohort study

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-207

  Vrieling, Alina ^a   Buck, Katharina ^a   Heinz, Judith ^b   Obi, Nadia ^b   Benner, Axel ^a   Flesch Janys, Dieter ^b   Chang Claude, Jenny ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Breast cancer; Mortality; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; VITAL STAIN;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84867845723     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-012-2230-2     Document Type: Article

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