A multilevel model of postmenopausal breast cancer incidence

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2078-2092

  Hiatt, Robert A ^a   Porco, Travis C ^a,b   Liu, Fengchen ^b   Balke, Kaya ^a   Balmain, Allan ^b   Barlow, Janice ^c   Braithwaite, Dejana ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^d   Kushi, Lawrence H ^e   Moasser, Mark M ^a   Werb, Zena ^b   Windham, Gayle C ^f   Rehkopf, David H ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Zero Breast Cancer   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; BRCA2 PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSAL BREAST CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; SIMULATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84907509389     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: 15387755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0403     Document Type: Article

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