The nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database was used to analyze the risk of contralateral breast cancer among 72,092 women with unilateral breast cancer. Contralateral breast cancer, defined as being diagnosed 6 months or more after the first breast cancer, affected 2,529 women (3.5%). In a young
Age–environment model for breast cancer
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1180-4009
- DOI
- 10.1002/env.637
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