Background Contrasting results have been published regarding the risk of breast cancer among teachers and nurses. Confounding by reproductive factors may explain the increased risk observed among women in these occupations as information on those factors were not available in most studies. Methods W
Insulin and related factors in premenopausal breast cancer risk
β Scribed by M. Elisabeth Del Giudice; I. George Fantus; Shereen Ezzat; Gail McKeown-Eyssen; David Page; Pamela J. Goodwin
- Book ID
- 110229635
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6806
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