The relationship between spontaneous and induced abortions and breast cancer risk was analyzed using data from a casecontrol study conducted between June I99 I and February I994 in 6 Italian centers on 2,569 histologically confirmed incident breast cancer cases and 2,588 controls admitted to hospita
No Link Between Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk
β Scribed by Cockey, Carolyn Davis
- Book ID
- 109266280
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-5923
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