A life course approach to cancer epidemiology

A Life Course Approach to Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Potischman, Nancy ^a   Troisi, Rebecca ^a,b   Vatten, Lars ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer risk; Perinatal factors; Prostate cancer; Risk factors; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922963905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198578154.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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