A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 497 Chinese women in Beijing with histologically confirmed breast cancer and by an equal number of age-and neighborhoodmatched control women. High body weight (71 + kg) was a risk factor for breast cancer in women aged 50 + (RR = I .90), but this ef
Characteristics and prognosis for molecular breast cancer subtypes in Chinese women
โ Scribed by Jing Zhao; Hong Liu; Meng Wang; Lin Gu; Xiaojing Guo; Feng Gu; Li Fu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 100
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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