Preventive Health Behaviors and Familial Breast Cancer
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Preventive health behaviors and familial breast cancer.
AIM To examine medical and lifestyle preventive behaviors among women with varying levels of familial breast cancer risk. METHODS Using cross-sectional data from the Minnesota Breast Cancer Family Study, a historical cohort of 426 families, we compared medical (mammography adherence, antiestrogen use, and prophylactic surgery) and lifestyle (physical activity, smoking, alcohol, and diet) beha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1055-9965,1538-7755
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-05-0254