Family history and the risk of breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Int J Cancer on May 29, 1997

Authors

P D Pharoah1, N E Day, S Duffy, D F Easton, B A Ponder

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK. pp10001@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Associated clinical trials:

My Lifestyle Intervention of Food and Exercise (MyLIFE) | NCT01630499

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