Breast cancer and the environment

Breast cancer and the environment a life course approach / [electronic resource] : Committee on Breast Cancer and the Environment : The Scientific Evidence, Research Methodology, and Future Directions, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. - Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012. - xxiii, 443 p. : ill. (some col.)

Includes bibliographical references.

Background, definitions, concepts -- What we have learned from current approaches to studying environmental risk factors -- Challenges of studying environmental risk factors for breast cancer -- Examining mechanisms of breast cancer over the life course : implications for risk -- Opportunities for action to reduce environmental risks for breast cancer -- Recommendations for future research.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Breast--Tumors--Etiology.
Breast--Tumors--Prevention.
Diseases--Risk factors.


Electronic books.

RC280.B8 / I57 2012eb

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