Explaining variance in the Cumulus mammographic measures that predict breast cancer risk: A twins and sisters study

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2395-2403

  Nguyen, Tuong L ^a   Schmidt, Daniel F ^a   Makalic, Enes ^a   Dite, Gillian S ^a   Stone, Jennifer ^a   Apicella, Carmel ^a   Bui, Minh ^a   MacInnis, Robert J ^a,b   Odefrey, Fabrice ^a   Cawson, Jennifer N ^a   Treloar, Susan A ^c   Southey, Melissa C ^a   Giles, Graham G ^a,b   Hopper, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST FEEDING; CANCER RISK; CUMULUS MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY MEASUREMENT; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENARCHE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SMOKING; TWINS; VARIANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SIBLINGS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84890017238     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-13-0481     Document Type: Article

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