Space-time clusters of breast cancer using residential histories: A Danish case-control study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nordsborg, Rikke Baastrup ^a,b   Meliker, Jaymie R ^c   Ersbøll, Annette Kjær ^b   Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^d,e   Poulsen, Aslak Harbo ^a   Raaschou Nielsen, Ole ^a  

^a DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Denmark; Q statistics; Residential histories; Space time cluster analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ENVIRONMENT; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84899472615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-255     Document Type: Article

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